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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.

Sources:
"Immigration to Utah," Deseret News [Weekly], 15 Oct. 1856, 254.   Read Trail Excerpt     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
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