JACOBSON FAMILY LINE IV - JACOBSON FAMILY LINE Introduction
This portion of the History of the Jacobson Family concentrates on the first of our 4 grandparents, Daniel John Jacobson and his ancestors. Subsequent chapters will focus on Anna Sophia Schwalbe, Hyrum Willard Loader and Zella Bird and their ancestors. This section will cover Daniel, his parents, Ole and Caroline Fredericksen Jacobson; his paternal grandparents, Jacob and Maren Olsdatter; his maternal grandparents, Niels and Maren Hensdatter Christiansen, and beyond. Information is sketchy about his grandparents, but we will show at least some of the statistics and dates that are available. There will be some duplications of information, as certain stories involve others. I feel the duplications are easier to put up with than having to go to several other histories to get the feel of any one individual’s life. Daniel John Jacobson
Daniel John (Johan) Jacobson was born on March 13, 1875, in Ephraim, Sanpete County, in the Utah Territory. He was blessed in the Ephraim Ward on June 3 that year by J G Nielsen.1 He is the son of Ole Johan Jacobsen and Caroline Fredericksen (Neilsdatter). Her name also appears as Nelson on some records. Daniel was joined by his brother, David Olius Jacobson on November 27, 1876. These two sons are the second family for both their parents.
He married Anna Sophia Schwalbe in Ephraim on November 23, 1898.2 Sophia had moved to Ephraim from Illinois as a child after the death of her father in an industrial accident. They must have grown up together but not much is known about their courtship.
According to the 1900 Census, they were living in Ephraim with their daughter Vera, who was born January 7, 1900. She later died in Salt Lake City on February 18, 1915 of a heart condition. Peter Schwalbe (Jake) was born on April 28, 1901. He died May 24, 1934 of cancer Page 1
JACOBSON FAMILY LINE in Montrose, Colorado. Little Mae Helen was born September 1, 1903 and died a short time later on January 7, 1904.
1900 Census of Daniel Jacobson Family
The family moved from Ephraim to Salt Lake City where the twins, Keith David and Curtis Daniel were born March 6, 1905. Keith died on October 18, 1983 and Curt on December 11, 1985, both of cancer. After a move to Vernal, Richard George was born on October 19, 1908. He died on August 8, 1985 of cancer. Virginia Mae was also born in Vernal on November 9, 1910, and died on July 25, 1982 of cancer.
Just a couple of weeks after Virginia’s birth, on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, Daniel went to work at a logging company’s site on Taylor Mountain and was killed by a falling tree.3 In those days, there were no family relief plans in place when men were killed on the job. They were on their own, depending on family resources, other family members or charity. Those must have been terrible years for Grandma and her family. Her brother-in-law David and his family helped a great deal as did her step brothers, but they were still very poor, with the oldest son only about 10.
1910 Census of Daniel Jacobson Family
There is some confusion as to Daniel’s death date. His headstone in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery shows November 23, 1910, but the death certificate shown in endnote 3 shows November 27, 1910. According to the date calculators, Thanksgiving Day was on November 24 in 1910. The doctor states on the certificate that he attended him from the 24th to the 26th and
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JACOBSON FAMILY LINE that he died at 12:30 a.m. on the 27th. To further complicate the situation, the doctor stated that he died at 1:30 am, 13 hours after the accident, which would have put the death on November 25th. The Vernal Express carried an article about the death being on the 25th.4 I don’t know how to clear up this confusion.
My brother Dick relates his experience when Daniel’s remains were moved to Pleasant Grove:
“My dad’s father was killed at a Lumber mill on Taylor Mountain north of the town of Vernal, UT when dad was just two years old. Grandmother never talked about him because his death was very tragic. The mill was closed for the Thanksgiving holidays, but because they needed the money she insisted he take the opportunity to go to the mill over the holidays as a guard. On Thanksgiving morning grandfather was killed in a tragic accident when he and another man cut down a tree. They were parents of a new born baby girl, my aunt Virginia. However, in November of 1948, not long after my cousin Donny drowned, Dad and my two Uncles, Keith and Curt, decided they wanted to move their dad’s body from Vernal to the family plot in Pleasant Grove where they had just buried Donny. This was some thirty-eight years after grandfather’s death. Don’s older brother, Robert, and I went with them. They had hired a professional company from Orem to actually exhume the casket and body.
“This was my first trip to Vernal. The Maeser Cemetery was unkempt and overgrown with weeds and sagebrush. A year or two before, the canal had broke and flooded through the area where my grandfather had been buried. While the professional grave diggers began to dig the grave we went to the courthouse to get the proper documents to remove the grave. Even though the area had been flooded and after thirty-eight years, the original shovel marks when the grave had been dug were still visible. When they got to the tender box that held the casket it had rotted and their shovel when right through it. They wanted to just make an opening and shovel the remains of casket and body into the cement vault they had brought with them. My dad became very angry, and told them to get out of the way. The three boys, dad and Uncles Keith and Curt, then carefully moved the dirt covering the decayed tender box. They found the casket inside, which had sprung apart allowing the lid to settle down over the body. Carefully they opened it and inside found the remains of the body. Even though only the skeleton remained you could still see the outline from the settled dust of the suit he was buried in and a flower that was in the lapel of the suit. You could see the large fracture of his skull that had killed him.
“An old man came by who actually had been with my grandfather that Thanksgiving morning he was injured. He described how they had decided to cut down a tree since there was nothing else to do. When the tree fell it snapped off a sapling about the size of a shovel handle that flew high into the air coming down and striking my grandfather in the head. He later that day died from the injury. Carefully the boys slipped a blue bedspread they had brought from home under their father’s casket, and the three of them hoisted it from the grave
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JACOBSON FAMILY LINE and carefully placed it in the cement vault. They then let the grave diggers fill the grave site back in. Uncle Curt insisted they not seal the vault until their mother could see how carefully they had taken care of the remains. When my grandfather was killed my grandmother was left with six children the oldest not quite a teen yet and my Aunt Virginia just two weeks old. Grandmother never remarried.”
See the family history of Anna Sophia Schwalbe for other details of their children.
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JACOBSON FAMILY LINE Ole John Jacobson And Caroline Fredericksen (Neilsdatter)
Ole Johan Jacobson: Biography taken from Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p. 956:
“Born March 17, 1824 [March 25, 1922], Christiania [Bergen], Norway. Married Osaa, in Norway. Their children: Matilda (married Frank Hanson); Rachel (married William Dennison); Benjamin; Jacob (married Clara Larson); Calaman (died aged 14-17). Family home Ephraim, Utah.
“Married Caroline Frederickson (Christensen) Ephraim, Utah (daughter of Carl and Annie Frederickeson of Sjelland, Denmark), who was born Dec. 5, 1835, and came to Utah with handcart company. Their children: Daniel John (born March 13, 1874[1875]-married Sophia Schwalbe); David Olius (born Nov 27, 1876-married Juliette Stevens, married Agnes Ellen O'Neil) Family Home Ephraim, Utah.”5
The above citation, errors withstanding, introduces the parents of Daniel John Jacobson.
The correct date of his birth is March 25, 1822.6 This record is from the Bergen County, Domkirken Parish records in Norway, and is pretty good evidence of his birthdate. His parents’ names are Jacob Andreassen and Maren Olsen. Ole’s siblings’ records show their father’s name to be Jacob Jacobsen. Such is the confusion of Scandinavian surnames. Maren’s name is sometimes shown as Olsdatter, etc.
On December 12, 1845, Ole married Aasa Iverson, who was christened on November 23, 1823 in Bergen, Norway, and died in December, 1871 in Ephraim, Utah.7 They had the following children:
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Name Birth Date Death Date Place Jacobena Margaret about 1845 April 6, 1877 Ephraim, UT Olaf Oscar Johan June 29, 1849 about 1877 Matilda Bergetta September 5, 1851 January 7, 1939 Salt Lake City, UT Joseph Benjamin December 17, 1855 Calaman about 1857 about 1872, Bergen, Norway Rachel November 15, 1859 October 31, 1932 Salt Lake City, UT Ephraim about 1861, about 1862 Oslo, Norway Jacob Nicolai September 8, 1863 February 13, 1914 Ephraim, UT Parley Carl Ferdinand 1865 October, 1872
Ole and Aase were baptized into the LDS Church in Bergen, Norway on February 23 and 19, 1856, respectively. 8
Members of the family emigrated to the United States arriving in New York on September 18, 1871 aboard the ship SS Nevada.9 They sailed from Liverpool, England. Jacob, Jacobine, Rachel, Benjamin and Carl were with their parents on the voyage. They traveled relatively comfortably on the train to Ogden, arriving on September 27, 187110. They then settled in Ephraim where Aase passed away a short time later in December, 1871.
Ole married Caroline Neilsdatter (or Frederickson, Nelson, Nielsen, etc.) in Ephraim, Utah in 1874. She was the widow of Anton Christensen with several children. Ole became a naturalized citizen on October 20, 1884, in the District Court in Provo, Utah.11
Ole married Barbara Nielsen on June 5, 1899, in Provo, Utah.12 He died in Provo on November 4, 1912 and was buried there on November 8.1314
Caroline Fredericksen (Neilsdatter) was born on December 5, 1835 in Eltang, Veijle, Denmark. She married Anton Christensen in 1855 while aboard ship coming to the United States. On February 3, 1856, they were sealed together in the LDS Church President’s office. They received their endowments on November 4, 1962, and were sealed again at that time in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. They settled in Ephraim, Utah and had the following children:
Anton Christensen
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Name Birth Date Death Date Place Niels Anton (Anthon) May 17, 1856 May 22, 1919 Ferron, UT Charles Antone about 1858 June 22, 1878 Sarah Anton about 1860 March 2, 1880 Ane Maria Kirstine October 29, 1861 May 18, 1881 Ephraim UT Antone (Anthon) October 14, 1863 July 10, 1922 Ephraim, UT Rosena August 23, 1965 1865 Ephraim, UT Rosetta about July 1867 January 4, 1889 Ephraim, UT Franklin Anthon July 11, 1869 February 6, 1945
Caroline’s husband of 26 years, Anton Christensen was born on December 22, 1830 in Gesten, Ribe County, Denmark. He passed away on June 22, 1871, in Ephraim. He was buried in the Old Cemetery in Ephraim. The 1870 census shows their family just prior to his death.15
It is not known how Caroline and Ole met, although they must have known each other for some time living in the same small town. They were married in 1874 in Ephraim, and Daniel and David were born in 1875 and 1877, respectively. For more information regarding David and his family, please go to www.dwjfamily.org, which is the website for Wells Jacobson, one of David’s sons. Because of Caroline’s earlier sealing to Anton Christensen, Daniel and David Jacobson were Born in the Covenant under that sealing.
Caroline passed away on November 9, 1896 in Ephraim.16 She was buried on November 12, also in Ephraim, next to her first husband, Anton.17
The 1880 Census shows the family of Ole and Caroline with Niels, Anton, Rossetta and Franklin Christensen, Grandfather Daniel and his brother David, and Ole’s son Jacob.18
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Ole and Caroline Jacobsen, Ephraim, Utah
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Jacob Jacobsen was born in Bergen, Norway, about 1795 and was christened on May 5, 1799.19 He is the son of Jacob Anderson and Marthe Bastesen. He died on September 21, 1877, also in Bergen.20 He is shown as Jacob Andreasen on some, but not all, his children’s birth records. In 1818 he married Maren Olina Olsdatter in Norway and they were the parents of 8 children:
Name Birth Date Death Date Place
Ole Johan Jacobsen March 15, 1822 November 4, 1914 Provo, UT
Jacob Martin Jacobsen January 24, 1824 October 7, 1826
Magrethe or Margrethe 1826 Elizabeth Jacobsen
Jacob Martin Jacobsen December 8, 1827
Jacob Martin Jacobsen November 8, 1828
Knud Christian Jacobsen March 30, 1930 June 13, 1830
Knud Christian Jacobsen June 19, 1832 1832
Martha Maria Jacobsen October 11, 1834
New Family Search also shows a marriage for Jacob to Marie Andersen on October 8, 1848. Marie was born on September 30, 1812 in Bergen, but nothing else is known about her.
Ole and his siblings were all baptized into the state Norwegian religion in this church, or cathedral. Most of the marriages were probably conducted there, also. Bergen Cathedral (Norwegian: Bergen Domkirke) is the seat of the Diocese of Bjørgvin. Located in the city center of Bergen, Norway, the first recorded reference to it is dated 1181.
During the reign of king Haakon IV of Norway, a Franciscan friary was established near the church, then known as Olavskirken, or the church of Saint Olaf, which was incorporated in it. The church burned down in 1248 and again in 1270, but was reconstructed after both fires. In 1463, it burned down again, but this time it was not reconstructed until the 1550s, despite being declared a cathedral in 1537.
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Domkirken Cathedral in Bergen, Norway
After the fires of 1623 and 1640, Bergen Cathedral received its current general appearance. The steeple on the nave was torn down, and the current tower was built. During the renovation in the 1880s by architect Christian Christie, the Rococo interior was replaced to give the interiors back their former medieval appearance. A cannonball from the 1665 Battle of Vågen between the English and Dutch fleets remains embedded in the cathedral's exterior wall.
Marin Olina Olsdatter was born on December 26, 1793, in Bergen, Beren, Norway, the daughter of Ole Iversen and Maren Aamundsen. As of this date, this information has not been confirmed. She died on February 6, 1835, also in Bergen.21
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Daniel Jacobson Blessing Record
Source: Ephraim Ward Membership Records 1856-1878. FHL US/Can Film No. 2035. Record shows name as Daniel Johan Jacobson.
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Marriage Record of Daniel Jacobson and Anna Sophia Schwalbe
Source: Western States Marriage Index. Details For Marriage ID#250680 Groom Last Name: JACOBSON Groom First Name: Daniel J. (23) Groom Residence: Ephraim Bride Last Name: SCHWALBE Bride First Name: Annie Sophia (23) Bride Residence: Ephraim Place: Ephraim Date: 23 Nov 1898 County of Record: Sanpete State: Utah
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Daniel J Jacobson Death Certificate
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News article about death of Daniel Jacobson, Vernal Express, November 25, 1910
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5 Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p. 956. FHL US/Can Reference Area, Call Number 979.2 D3e, 1966, pt. 2
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Ole Jacobson Birth Record. Source: Bergen county, Domkirken, Parish register (official) nr. A 12 (1821-1840), Birth and baptism records 1822, page 5. http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-kb20070306670248.jpg
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Ole and Aase Jacobsen Marriage record. Source: Norway Marriage Records, Stavanger, Rogaland, FHL Int’l Film #307145
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Ole and Aase Baptism records. Source: Scandinavian Mission Record of Members, 1853 – 1857, Oslo Branch Norway, Book 1446, page 17, entry #531. FHL Film 123202 Int’l
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Passenger List SS Nevada September 18, 1871. Source: Year: 1871; Arrival: New York , United States;
Source Citation: Year: 1871; Arrival: New York , United States; Microfilm Serial: M237; Microfilm Roll: M237_348; Line: 25; List Number: 933; Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
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European Emigration Card Index 1849 to 1925, FHL film British 298434
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Ole Johan Jacobsen Naturalization in the District Court of Provo, Utah October 20, 1884. District Court (Utah County), United States. District Court (Utah Territory : 1st Judicial District), United States. District Court (Utah Territory : 2nd Judicial District). FHL Film No. 482921
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Ole Jacobsen and Barbara Nielsen marriage record, 1899. Source: Marriage Records of Utah County, 1877- 1966, FHL film USA/Can 482939
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Ole J Jacobsen Death Certificate
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Ole and Barbara Jacobsen Headstone, Provo City Cemetery
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Anton and Caroline Christensen family on 1870 Census
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Death record of Caroline Jacobsen, Ephraim City Sexton’s Record. FHL Film # 564328 Item 2
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Anton (Anthon) and Caroline Christensen Jacobsen Headstone, Ephraim, Utah
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Ole Jacobsen family on the 1880 Census, Ephraim, Utah
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Jacob Jacobsen (Andreason) Birth record, 1799
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Jacob Jacobsen Death Record, 1877
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Maren Olina Olsdatter Jacobsen Death Record, 1835
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