Maren Morgansen Anderson Pedersen Hancock

BIRTHDATE: 8 Sep 1819 Orback, Svenborg, Denmark

DEATH: 1880-1881

PARENTS: Mogens Frederick Anton Iver Anderson Maren Larsdatter

PIONEER: 27 Sep 1862 John Murdock Wagon Train Comp.

SPOUSE I: Ove C. Anderson

MARRIED: 19 Oct 1838 Svenborg, Denmark

DEATH SP: 4 Feb 1848 Ravnho1t, Svenborg, Denmark

CHILDREN:

Christain 11 Jun 1840

Fredrick 11 Iu1 1843

Jens 24 Ian 1845

Maren 26 May 1847

SPOUSE II: Lars Pedersen

MARRIED: 12 Apr 1851 Herrested, Svendborg, Denmark

DEATH SP: 15 Nov 1884 Fillmore, Millard Co., Utah

CHlLDREN:

Ove 4 May 1851

Gertrude 31 Mar 1853

Karen 1 Aug 1855

Caroline (Hale) 1856

SPOUSE III: Levi Ward Hancock

MARRIED: 9 Aug 1868

DEATH SP: 10 Jun 1882 Washington, Washington Co., Utah

Maren grew up in rural Denmark working on a farn. She married Ove Christian Anderson in 1838. Their home was in Ravholt, where her husband was a forest ranger. He died of a high fever in 1848. She then married Lars Pedersen in 1851.

She was a reader of a paper called the "Millennial Star," was ready to accept the Mormon Missionaries, and was baptized on February 12, 1860.

Because of their religion they were victims of much mob violence, but could not come to America. Lars had an agreement to work on an estate. The landlord refused to release them and pay them their equity , so they were forced to wait until he died. After his death his son released them and they received enough money to bring them to Utah ($345.00 for passage, $180.00 for cargo). They also paid the passage back home for Elder Brown, of Scipio, who had baptized them. They sailed on the ship "Humbolt" then came by wagons arriving in 1862, settling in Fillmore, Utah.

In 1868, she married Levi Ward Hancock and lived in St George. Mary's name is recorded on the Leamington Ward records in 1886, but her death date is unknown.

"A Short Sketch of the Hancock and Adams Families" by Charles Brent Hancock, apprx 1880 photocopied from LDS microfische by Janet Cloward Roasio