Kaldte sig Christine Benson. Christine Bendtsen Anderson, one of the first native women of the island of Bornholm, Denmark, who embraced the gospel as preached by Latter-Day-Saint Elders, is a daughte
r of Jeppe Bendtsen and Maren Kristine Koefoed. After learning the dressmaker's and tailors' trade in her native town, she went to Copenhagen, where she joined the Baptist church. When Apostle Erastus
Snow and fellow-laborers came to Denmark in 1850, she was among those who heard their testimonies and believed that they were men sent of God. She received a testimony, and was baptized 24 August 18
50, by Elder George P. Dykes, being the second person from Bornholm to accept the gospel. In the summer of 1851, she was called by Apostle Erastus Snow to accompany two Elders to Bornholm, and help th
em in their work, by finding a home for them and assisting them otherwise. She performed that mission most faithfully. Not only did she secure a home for the missionaries in her father's house, but
she prepared the way for them, in many instances, to preach the gospel. In a short time, all the members of her father's family, except one, were converted to "Mormonism" and emmigrated to America, l
eaving Denmark 20 December 1852.
They all arrived in Utah in the fall of 1853, except Jeppe Bendtsen, the head of the family, who was bitten by a dog in Hamburg, Germany and returned to Bornholm. He emmigrated, however, the following
year. (This is questionable information because records indicate that Yeppe, along with the rest of his family that emmigrated, arrived in the Salt Lake Valley at the same time.) Sister Christine wa
s married to Mons Andersen, 3 July 1854, and lived in Salt Lake City until April 1858, when they moved to Lehi, Utah County, where they still reside. Sister Andersen has been a teacher in the Relief S
ociety in Lehi for twenty years. She is the mother of six children, five of whom are living at the present time.
1826 - 1909 (83 år)
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