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Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Christensen, Niels Lars

Birth Date: 19 Oct. 1828
Death Date: 7 Feb. 1920
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Company: James G. Willie Company (1856)

Pioneer Information:
returning missionary; traveled with independent wagons; interpreter and counselor to Danish Saints; his name appears as "N. L. Christiansen" on the roster.

His death certificate and the inscription on his gravestone confirm the spelling of his surname.

Sources:
"Immigration to Utah," Deseret News [Weekly], 15 Oct. 1856, 254.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Find a Grave (web site)     Source Locations
James G. Willie Emigrating Company, Journal 1856 May-Nov., 16-53.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Madsen, Peter, Diary 1856 Apr.-Sept., trans. Don H. Smith, 19-29.    Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Rogerson, Josiah, "Captain J. G. Willie's Or, the Fourth Handcart Company of 1856 [No. 2]," Salt Lake Herald, 5 Jan. 1908.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Smith, Don, e-mail communication, 29 Apr. 2003.     Source Locations
Smith, Don, personal conversation, 9 Mar. 2005     Source Locations
Smith, Marilyn Austin, Faithful Stewards--the Life of James Gray Willie and Elizabeth Ann Pettit, 95-120.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Utah State Death Certificate, Utah State Archives     Source Locations
Willie, James G., Synopsis of the Fourth Hand Cart Company's Trip from England to G.S.L. City in 1856, in "History of Brigham Young," 9 Nov. 1856, 966-83.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Woodward, William, Journal, in Utah State Historical Society Cache Valley Chapter, Historical resource materials for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, 1955-1956, reel 4, item 2e.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations