Jens Christian Sorenson Frost

(Carl Hulbert's Great Grandfather Mother's Side)

Jens Christian Sorensen Frost was born in Hov Mariager, Randers Denmark, 2 November
1839. He accepted the Gospel and was baptized 20 November 1858.  His father was
Anders Sorensen Frost and his mother, Elsie Marie Christensen.

Jens Christian was preaching the gospel at the home of Brother and Sister Wheelmaker
when he met my Grandmother, Johanna Marie Andersen.  She was living and working in
the neighborhood at the time.  She soon joined the church and was baptized, 30
August 1861.

When Jens Christian and his family sailed for America, she was engaged to him and
decided to accompany theWheelrights (Wheelmakers) who were also sailing.  They
sailed on the sixth day of April 1862.  One week later, on the 13th, Jens Christian
and Johanna Marie were married on board the ship by the captain.

When Jens Christian came to Utah, he walked all the way from Council Bluffs; Johanna
Marie walked with him.

Their first child, Marie Elizabeth was born on 20 September 1863.  There were eight
children born of this union.  All of them received their endowments in the Temple of
the Lord.

On 15 December 1866, Jens Christian married Mette Marie Mortensen and 10 April 1872,
he was married to Sine Petersen in pural marriage.

Jens Christian was a very meticulous man.  He was neat and clean with his yard, his
person, and in everything he did.

He lived in harmony with his three wives and families.  Never did he show any
preference one in front of the others and he was a kind father.

He built a three-room adobe house with mud floors.  Twenty children were born in it.
Later he built a large rock home with twelve rooms and the three families lived here
for sometime.  Theirs was a harmonious family.  When the Manifesto was signed, it
became necessary for the three wives to live in separate homes.

The death of the third wife (Sine) left four motherless children and Johanna Marie
raised them.

Jens was a fine carpenter.  He hung all the doors in the Ephraim Tabernacle.  They
were heavy doors and difficult to hang, but up to this day, they still hang and work
perfectly.

He made caskets from native lumber and used the black from the stove lids to paint
them and lined them with white bleach.

Everyone was busy in the home and thrift was taught to all.  In the winter time his
cellar was always filled with the delicious apples and vegetables he raised in the
orchard and garden adjoining his home.

He died 9 June 1905 at Ephraim, Utah.

Written in 1952, but the writer was not identified.