Jens Nielson

April 26, 1820–April 24, 1906

1 Born at Tirsted, Maribo, Laaland, Denmark; son of Dorthea Margrethe Thomsen and Niels Jensen. 2 Married Elsie Rasmussen, 1850; participated in plural marriage. 3 Baptized in Denmark, 1854. 4 Immigrated to the United States aboard the Thornton and migrated to the Salt Lake Valley with the Willie handcart company, 1856. 5 Settled at Bluff, San Juan County, Utah Territory, 1880. 6 Served as bishop of the Bluff Ward, 1880–1906. 7 Died at Bluff. 8 (See Document 4.21)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Dec. 2014); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 3/425 (1906), Jens Nielson.

  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 3/425. Albert R. Lyman, “Bishop Jense [sic] Nielson,” photocopy of typescript, 1936, p. [1], CHL. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 2014), Jens Nielsen KWNP-RNC.

  3. [3] Lyman, “Bishop Jense Nielson,” 2, 8–9. Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1914), 2:204.

  4. [4] Lyman, “Bishop Jense Nielson,” 2. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 2:203.

  5. [5] “Saints by Sea,” database, 1840–1932, Saints by Sea (http://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu, accessed May 2023), Jens Nielson; extracted from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Immigration Index CD (2000). “Jens Nielson,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Nov. 2023. 

  6. [6] Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 2:203–204.

  7. [7] Lyman, “Bishop Jense Nielson,” 10. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 2:204.

  8. [8] Utah death certificate, file no. 3/425.