Laurs Peter CHRISTENSEN

                       CHRISTENING: Vrejlev PR 6:47-48, no. 3, FHL 049,190;

SOURCES:
    1. Vrejlev Parish Register (FHL#049,190)
    2. Endowment House Sealings (FHL#183,395)
    3. Richfield 1st Ward Record of Members (FHL#026,446)
    4. Latter Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jensen
    5. 1997 Ordinance Index

    MARRIAGES: m. (2) 8 Sep 1866, "Ann Maria Petersen," Endowment House Sealings
    D:631-32, no. 8791, FHL 183,395, by H. C. Kimball; m. (3) 13 Dec 1883, Karen
    Jacobine Andria Jacobsen, Endowment House Sealings M:11, FHL 183,402, by D. H.
    Wells;

    DEATH: Richfield 1st Ward Record of Members, 1909-30, no. 6, FHL 026,446, d.
    25 Jul 1918;

    BAPTISM: Richfield 1st Ward Record of Members, 1878-91, fol. 2, FHL 026,446,
    bapt. 8 Sep 1858 by JCC Ostenkjaer, conf. 8 Sep 1858 by ditto, 65th Quorum of
    Seventies, High Priest, rec'd Jun 1875 from Milton, Morgan, UT, 1st counselor
    to Bp. T. Poulsen (1st Ward);

    ENDOWMENT: Endowment House Endowments E:57, no. 952, FHL 183,405, "b. 17 Jan
    1837, Milhousen, Wensisel, Den.; bapt. 8 Sep 1858; parents Gristian [sic] &
    Gertrude";

    SEALINGS TO SPOUSE: sealed to "Ann Maria Petersen, b. 6 Dec 1847," Endowment
    House Sealings D:631-32, no. 8791, FHL 183,395; Sealed to "Ann Maria Neilson b.
    31 Oct 1840," Endowment House Sealings D:371-72, no. 7045, FHL 183,395; sealed
    to "Karen Jacobine Andria Jacobsen b. 27 Nov 1863," Endowment House Sealings
    M:11, FHL 183,402.

    HISTORY: Andrew Jenson, LATTER-DAY SAINT BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA (n.p.:
    Andrew Jenson History Co., 1914; reprint ed., Salt Lake City, Utah: Western
    Epics, 1971), 2:210-11, bapt. 8 Sep 1858 by Elder Jens C. Ostenkjar
    [sic], parents rejected the Gospel, rented blacksmith shop and earned enough to
    emigrate to Utah, ordained Elder soon after baptism and presided over Taars
    Branch, and later over Harritslev Branch, also labored a yr. as local
    missionary and baptized 11 persons, came to Utah 1861, crossed Atlantic on
    MONARCH OF THE SEA, and the plains in Capt. Samuel Woolley's Independent Co.,
    spent yr. and a half in Davis co., then to Milton, Morgan Co., where he
    presided over that branch abt. 10 yrs. and also worked as bishop's counselor,
    to Richfield, Sevier Co., in 1875 where he lived out his days, had earlier been
    ordained a member of 65th Quorum of Seventy, was ordained High Priest Jul 1877,
    12 yrs. as counselor to Bishop Poul Poulsen of Richfield 1st Ward, and
    president of United Order, Richfield, Nov 1876 to Mar 1881, 1881-83 missionary
    in Denmark, presided over Hjorring Branch a yr., baptized 41 persons; presided
    another yr. over Aalborg Conference, returned to Utah 1883 at head of 122
    emigrants, m. Anna Marie Lee 16 May 1861 and had 8 children by her, m. Anna
    Marie ("Mary") Pedersen 8 Sep 1866 and had 9 children with her, and m. Karen J.
    A. Jacobsen 13 Dec 1883 and had 8 children by her, served 3 mos. in Utah
    penitentiary for unlawful cohabitation, self-imposed exile thereafter as
    blacksmith in Pioche, Nevada, and later Delamare, again arrested and fined for
    unlawful cohabitation 1898.