Final Thoughts

I have sincerely enjoyed researching the Hans Hansen family. It has given me a better knowledge and appreciation for my ancestors. They were great people and I loved learning and discovering things about their life. It has been a blessing taking this class and I hope you have enjoyed reading this blog. Please let me know if there is anything else I should add. I would love to learn even more about this family.

After this class, they are no longer just names on a pedigree chart. They are actually people that I feel I know. Hans, Charlotte, Alfred, Erma, Annetta, Leona, Iola and Mona are all a part of my life now. They have a special place in my heart and I have loved getting to know them over the past semester. I can't wait to learn more about them and start doing genealogy on the rest of my ancestors!

Mona

I probably know the least on Mona. She was born on October 7, 1921 in Brigham City, Utah. She too was in Nevada with Hans, Charlotte and Iola. She died early in life at the age of 26 on the 10th of May, 1947. Here is a newspaper cutout from her death.

This newspaper says she died in Pendleton, Oregon from a lingering illness. After Nevada her and her family moved to Bend, Oregon. She must have gone up to Pendleton to live on her own. I have no record of her being married or any children.

Iola

Iola Hansen was born on January 12, 1917 in Brigham City, Utah like all her older siblings. She was with Hans and Charlotte in Nevada, while he was working on the railroad. She was married to George Bailey and had four children. However, one died three days after he was born. Here is a picture of Iola and her family.

She finished her life in Redding, California, where she died on June 16, 1987 at the age of 70.

Leona Mae

Leona was born April 16, 1913 in Brigham City, Utah. She died on August 17, 1986 in Vancouver, Washington. She was one of the children that I didn't know anything about. Just her birth and death date. I did another search for her and found out she was married to John Charles Wilde on October 26, 1929. I did a census search for Leona Mae Wilde and ended up finding one from 1930 in Nevada. As I was looking through the census I found Hans and Charlotte and the younger kids! They were in Nevada with Leona and her husband. Both Hans and John were working on the railroad. Who knew they were in Nevada for a while??

Annetta

Here is Annetta. My great-great grandmother. My link to this Hansen family. She was born on July 25, 1901 in Brigham City, Utah. The post earlier had a picture of a page in a book that said Annetta lived with a relative in town so that she could go to school while her parents farmed out in the country. In the 1910 US Utah Census, the census taker wrote her name as Annettie. This must have been her nickname growing up in Utah. She was married to James Fredrickson on January 3, 1917. Only 15 and a half years old! They were married in Brigham City. Their first child, Vera (my grandmother) was born on October 15, 1918. She then had 7 more children. In order: Vera,Ida, Lillis, Lois, Glen, Barbara, Roy and Clyde. Here is a picture of all the children and parents, in order from oldest to youngest.

Here is a picture of the children all grown up, minus Lillis. She died in a car crash before this picture was taken.

When she became a grandmother, she was known as Grandma Freddy. She died on January 3, 1979 at the age of 78.

Erma Charlotte

Erma was an interesting child. I knew she was the second child born on August 11, 1899. I knew she was only 17 when she died on December 9, 1916. She was born, raised and passed away in Brigham City, Utah. That was all I knew about her. I was so curious as to how she died.

I found out by mistake. While I was searching for Charlotte on Ancestry.com, a link for Erma Hansen came up. I clicked on it and little did I know it was the death certificate! It had the information I needed and was looking for! That is one of the exciting parts of doing genealogy work. You can search for something and come across something completely different. Its the best feeling! It showed the cause of death, which I believe is bed sores but it's kind of hard to read. What a horrible way to die. This makes me thankful for modern medicine and technology. Here is a picture of her death certificate. Super interesting! Hans filled it out and you can see his handwriting and signature! Another exciting glimpse into Hans and Erma's life.

Alfred

I don't know much about Alfred. I do know that he was born on May 3, 1896 in Brigham City, Utah. He was the first child of six. That was all I knew about Alfred until I started searching more on just specifically him. I found out he was married to Helen Elizabeth Reeves on June 1, 1924. Then I found another woman he was married to: Ola Faye Hixson. They were married on June 29, 1936. Helen must have died in order for Alfred to marry Ola. Ola was alive when Alfred died on December 13, 1967 in Bend, Oregon. He was 71 years old at death.

Part of doing genealogy is realizing that people often make mistakes. They don't always spell a name right, or enter a date correctly. While I was searching on Ancestry.com (a great resource, except it costs money, but luckily BYU pays for us to be able to use it for free!) I found the 1910 Census in Brigham City, Utah. Alfred was spelled ALFORD. This helped a lot in finding more information on Alfred and his wives that I didn't know existed.

Charlotte Ann Ewer

Charlotte was born in Evanston, Wyoming to Henry and Emma Ewer. She was born on October 18, 1876. She married Hans when she was 19 years old, in 1895.

She had 6 children. Her first child was when she was 20 years old and her last was born when she was 41. She lived most of her life in Brigham City, Utah. However, she and Hans moved to Bend, Oregon, where she passed away on December 22, 1950, shortly after Hans passed.

Hans Frederik

As I began my research on other websites, I mainly searched Hans hoping to find information on the entire family. However, that was not the case. It was very interesting spending time searching and searching and not being able to find anything. The FamilySearch information gave me some information, but not enough. I called my mom asking her to look for any information she had. She was great and sent me so many things! She was extremely helpful and had a lot of information on Hans. I had no idea he died by getting run over by a train! Here is a couple of the newspaper cutouts talking about his death.

Now, I should probably talk about his life. He was born in Aahurs, Denmark to Niels and Ane Marie Hansen. He was the first child of twelve. In 1876, Niels sent Ane Marie, Hans and their youngest Joseph to America. They traveled to Utah, where they stayed in Brigham City for many many years. Eventually Niels was able to meet up with Ane Marie.

Hans met Charlotte in Brigham City. She had stolen a watermelon from a wagon load he was peddling. They were married on August 28, 1895, in Logan, Utah. I believe they were sealed in the Logan, Utah temple. Here is a page from a book my mother found. It gives a brief description on Hans and Charlotte and a little bit on Annetta.

I don't know if you are able to read it but it says that Hans was remembered for his warm personality. He was a wanderer and loved the adventure of new change. It says he always thought the pasture was greener somewhere else. He ended up being a farmer and sheepherder.

Family Search

So in order for me to figure out what family I wanted to research, I had to search my family on www.familysearch.com. It's a great website that has a lot of information. The church has made it easy for everyone to use and find information on their family. It was a great resource while researching Hans and his family. FamilySearch was how I discovered I wanted to research them. Here are a few things I found out on FamilySearch. I will first give the basic information on the family so you can get acquainted with them and then I will go into detail on each person during my later posts.

-Hans Frederik Hansen married Charlotte Ann Ewer on 28 of August, 1895.
-They had 6 children, in order: Alfred W., Erma Charlotte, Annetta, Leona Mae, Iola, and Mona.
-All the kids were born between 1896 and 1921.
-Each child was born in Box Elder, Utah

Genealogy Project

I am in a genealogy class here at BYU. I needed some extra religion credits so I thought I would take genealogy and learn a little bit about my family. For our final project we had to pick a family where the parent and at least one child was born before 1900. I don't know very much about my mother's family so I decided to choose Hans Hansen and Charlotte Ann Ewer's family.

Over the past semester we have done assignments to help us get used to doing genealogy and gain information on our family. For the final project we have to present the information on that family in a way that can be easily viewed. I have decided to create this blog! It will give me a way to show interesting facts and pictures on the Hansen family. I am pretty excited about this family and I have loved getting to know them a little better. I'm sure a lot of you didn't know anything about this family but now you can learn something! I hope you enjoy it!