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From Scandinavian Journal History:
"Friday 6 Sep 1850: Elder George Parker Dykes baptized Eline Hansine Larsen, age 12, daughter of Hans and Eline Larsen, a member of the Church, she being the first young lady baptized in Danmark in this dispensation by divine authority."
Elena emmigrated from Denmark then crossed the plains to Utah with her family in the John Forsgren Company, 1853. (See notes on father, Hans Larsen)
1860 United States Census
County of Salt Lake, Territory of Utah
Post Office: Great Salt Lake City
Page 129, 2nd Ward
John Lambert, age 39, Mason, born England
Ansenia Lambert, age 21, born England [sic]
Joseph Lambert, age 3, born Utah
Ephraim Lambert, age 1, born Utah
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1880 United States Census
Source Information:
Family History Library Film 1255338
NA Film Number T9-1338
Page Number 33C
Census Place Peoa, Summit, Utah
Household:
John LAMBERT Self M Male W 60 ENG Farmer
Adelia LAMBERT Wife M Female W 58 OH Housekeeping
Eleni A. LAMBERT Wife M Female W 42 DEN Housekeeping
John C. LAMBERT Son S Male W 30 MO At Home
Richard F. LAMBERT Son S Male W 25 UT At Home
Jedediah LAMBERT Son S Male W 22 UT At Home
Ann M. LAMBERT Dau S Female W 19 UT At Home
Joseph LAMBERT Son S Male W 23 UT At Home
Danl. LAMBERT Son S Male W 19 UT At Home
Lena LAMBERT Dau S Female W 17 UT At Home
Emma LAMBERT Dau S Female W 16 UT At Home
Elizabeth LAMBERT Dau S Female W 15 UT At Home
Mercy H. LAMBERT Dau S Female W 14 UT At Home
Cornelia LAMBERT Dau S Female W 11 UT At Home
Benj. LAMBERT Son S Male W 9 UT
Parley W. LAMBERT Son S Male W 3 UT
Emeline LAMBERT Dau S Female W 1 UT
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1900 United States Census
State of Utah, Summit County
Kamas Precinct, Kamas Village
LAMBERT, Elena, Head, born Sep 1838, age 61, wid, born Denmark
LAMBERT, Emeline A. , dau, born May 1879, age 21, mar, born Utah
LAMBERT, Mary E., gdau, born Sep 1897, age 2, born Utah
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1910 United States Census
State of Utah, Summit County
Kamas Precinct
Carpenter, William F., Head, age 35, mar, born Utah
Carpenter, Emeline C., Wife, age 30, mar, born Utah
Carpenter, Pearl L., Daughter, age 7, born Utah
Carpenter, Otto W., Son, age 5, born Utah
Carpenter, Elmo D., Son, age 2, born Utah
Carpenter, Rulon L., Son, age 6mos, born Utah
Janes, Mary E., Daughter of wife, age 12, born Utah
Lambert, Elena H, Mother in law, age 71, widow, born Denmark
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1920 United States Census
State of Utah, Summit County
Kamas Town 3rd Class
Carpenter, William F., Head, age 45, mar, born Utah, Dry Farmer
Carpenter, Emeline, Wife, age 40, mar, born Utah
Carpenter, Pearl L., Daughter, age 17, born Utah
Carpenter, Otto L., Son, age 15, born Utah
Carpenter, Elmo D., Son, age 13, born Utah
Carpenter, Rulon L., Son, age 10, born Utah
Carpenter, Carl F., Son, age 7, born Utah
Carpenter, Verdon A., Son, age 5, born Utah
Carpenter, Herman R., Son, age 2, born Utah
Janes, Mary E, Daughter, age 22, born Utah, Teacher
[Next door]
Lambert, Elena H., Head, age 82, widow, born Denmark
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Source:"Mormon Immigration Index"
published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
© 2000 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
LARSEN, Hans, Gender: M Age: 46 Origin: Germany Occ: Laborer
Note: CRPC #88; Extracted from Original Passenger List
LARSEN, Elina, Gender: F Age: 42 Origin: Germany
Note: CRPC #88; Extracted from Original Passenger List
LARSEN, Elina, Gender: F Age: 13 Origin: Germany
Note: CRPC #88; Extracted from Original Passenger List
LARSEN, Christina, Gender: F Age: 8 Origin: Germany
Note: CRPC #88; Extracted from Original Passenger List
LARSEN, Maria, Gender: F Age: 5 Origin: Germany
Note: CRPC #88; Extracted from Original Passenger List
NOTE: Because the family had travelled from Denmark to Germany then to England, they were listed as originating in Germany instead of Denmark. There was also another child, John George Erastus, an infant.
Ship: Forest Monarch
Date of Departure: 16 Jan 1853
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
LDS Immigrants: 297
Church Leader: John E. Forsgren
Date of Arrival: 16 Mar 1853
Port of Arrival: New Orleans, Louisiana
Source(s): Customs (FHL #200,173)
Notes: "DEPARTURES. . . . The Forest Monarch sailed on the 16th [OF] January, with 297 Danish Saints on board, under the presidency of Elder John Forsgren. . . ."
"SIXTIETH COMPANY. -- Forest Monarch, 297 souls. This company of emigrants was from the Scandinavian Mission, being the first large company of Saints who emigrated from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. An earnest desire to emigrate to Zion had been manifested by many of the Scandinavian Saints since the first little company had left for the mountains a few months previous; and the elders had been busily engaged for some time past in making preparations to send off a large company.
About the beginning of December, 1852, the emigrants from the respective conferences in the mission began to gather in Copenhagen, Denmark, and on Monday, December 20th, 1852, two hundred and ninety-three Saints, including children, went on board the steamship Obotrit, and sailed from 'Toldboden' (the custom-house), at four o'clock p.m., under the leadership of Elder John E. Forsgren, one of the elders who, in connection with Apostle Erastus Snow, first introduced the gospel into Scandinavia two years before. A great multitude of people had gathered on the wharf to witness the departure of the 'Mormons,' and many of the rabble gave utterance to the most wicked and blasphemous language, while they cursed and swore, because so many of their countrymen were disgracing themselves by following 'that Swedish Mormon priest' (an appellation they gave Elder Forsgren) to America. No violence, however, was resorted to, and the ship got safely away.
After a rather stormy and unpleasant passage, the Obotrit arrived safely at Kiel, Holstein, on the evening of the twenty-second. The following day the journey was continued by rail to Hamburg, where a large hall had been hired, and supper prepared for the emigrants. In the afternoon of the twenty-fourth the Saints went on board the steamship Lion, which glided slowly with the tide down the river Elbe to Cuxhaven, where the captain cast anchor, owing to the heavy fog which prevailed. The emigrants now celebrated Christmas Eve on board, with songs and amusements of different kinds. In the morning of the twenty-fifth anchor was weighed, and the Lion sailed to the mouth of the river, where it was met by heavy headwinds, that made it impossible to reach the open sea until midnight. Finally, the passage from the river to the sea was made in the moonlight. Early in the morning of the twenty-sixth the ship passed Heligoland, soon after which a heavy gale blew up from the southwest, which increased in violence until the next day, when it assumed the character of a regular hurricane, the like of which old sailors declared they had never before experienced on the German Ocean. The ship's bridge and part of the gunwale were destroyed, and some goods standing on the deck were broken to pieces and washed overboard; otherwise, neither the ship nor the emigrants were injured. On the twenty-eighth, in the evening, after the storm had spent its fury, the Lion steamed into the harbor of Hull, England. About one hundred and fifty vessels were lost on the German Ocean in the storm, and the people in Hull were greatly surprised when the Lion arrived in safety, as it was firmly believed that she had gone under like the other ships that were lost.
From Hull, the emigrating Saints continued the journey by rail to Liverpool, on the 29th, where lodging and meals, previously ordered, were prepared for them, and on the first of January 1853, they went on board the packet ship Forest Monarch, which was hauled out of the dock and anchored in the river Mersey. There it lay until the 16th, because of storms and contrary winds. In the meantime three of the company died, two babies were born, and three fellow passengers were initiated into the Church by baptism. One man, who had been bitten by a dog was left in Liverpool, to be forwarded with the next company of emigrating Saints. One night the ship became entangled with another vessel and sustained some injuries; and a few days later, during a heavy storm, it got adrift, pulling up both anchors, and was just about to run aground, when two tug boats came to the rescue and saved it.
On the sixteenth of January, 1853, the Forest Monarch put out to sea. The emigrants now numbered two hundred and ninety-seven souls, who were placed under the direction of Elder John E. Forsgreen, in connection with whom Elders Christian Christiansen and J. H. Christiansen acted as counselors. Elders Willard Snow and Peter O. Hansen, who had accompanied the emigrating Saints to Liverpool, now returned to Copenhagen. During the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean the Forest Monarch was favored with very pleasant weather, but for several days it was a perfect calm, and in many respects the emigrants, who nearly all were unaccustomed to seafaring life, found the voyage trying and tedious. The provisions were poor, and their fresh water supply gave out before the journey was ended. Four deaths also occurred, and three children were born during the voyage.
On the eighth of March, 1853, the ship arrived safely at the mouth of the Mississippi River, where five of the company died, and on the arrival at New Orleans, on the sixteenth, two others departed this life, and one family who had apostatized remained in that city. From New Orleans the journey was continued by steamboat up the Mississippi River to St. Louis Missouri, where the emigrants landed on the thirty-first. In that city, tents and other commodities needed for the overland journey were purchased. After tarrying about a month, during which time six of the emigrants died and two couples were married, the company left St. Louis and proceeded by steamboat about two hundred miles further up the river to Keokuk, Iowa, where the emigrants pitched their tents for the first time, and lay in camp for several weeks before starting for the plains.
In the meantime the emigrants received their teams, consisting of oxen and wagons. Some of the Scandinavian emigrants, who at first rejected the American ways of driving oxen in yokes, went to work and manufactured harness in regular Danish fashion; but no sooner were these placed on the animals than they, frightened half to death, struck out in a wild run, refusing to be guided at all by the lines in the hands of their new masters from the far north. Crossing ditches and gulches in their frenzy, parts of the wagons were strewn by the way side; but the oxen, (many of which had never been hitched up before) were at last stopped by men who understood how to manipulate that most important article of all teamsters outfits--the whip; and the Danish emigrants, profiting by the experience they had gained, soon concluded that, although harness might do well enough for oxen in Denmark, the yoke and whip were preferable in America; and they readily accepted the method of their adopted country.
With thirty-four wagons and about one hundred and thirty oxen, the company rolled out from the camping ground near Keokuk on the twenty-first of May, and after three weeks rather difficult travel over prairies of Iowa, Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, was reached. Here the company rested for several days, and on the twenty-seventh of June resumed the journey by crossing the Missouri River, after which they were soon far out on the plains. On the overland journey a number of the emigrants died, more children were born, and a few lost the faith in the midst of the hardships and trials of the long march. Finally on the thirtieth of September, 1853, the company arrived in Salt Lake City; and on the fourth of October the emigrants were nearly all rebaptized by Apostle Erastus Snow. They were counseled by President Brigham Young to settle in different parts of the Territory, and mix up with people of other nationalities, so as to become useful in developing the resources of the new country. Most of them located in Sanpete Valley, whither other companies from Scandinavia subsequently followed them, and that valley has ever since been known as the headquarters of the Scandinavians in Utah. Still President Young's advice has not been unheeded, as the people from the three countries of the north (Denmark, Sweden and Norway) are represented, to a greater or less extent, in nearly every town and settlement of the Saints in the Rocky Mountains.
(Millennial Star, Vol. XV, pp.89, 282, 368; Morgenstjernen, Vol. I, page 180.)"
"Sun. 16. [Jan. 1853] -- The ship Forest Monarch sailed from Liverpool, England, with 297 Scandinavian Saints, under John E. Forsgren's direction. The company arrived at New Orleans March 12th; at Keokuk, Iowa, in the beginning of April; and most of the emigrants reached G. [Great] S. [Salt] L. [Lake] City, Sept. 30th. This was the first large company of Saints who emigrated to Utah from Scandinavia."
Newspaper: Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 22, 1921
Funeral is Held for First Girl Convert in Denmark
(Special to the News.)
KAMAS, Sep. 22. -- Funeral services were held for Elena H. Lambert in the Kamas chapel Sunday and were largely attended by relatives and friends. Elder Joseph H. Smithies of the Kamas bishopric presided. Prayers were offered by William Richards and Elder Alstine. A mixed quarter furnished the music. Elders Joseph H. Smithies, Silas M. Pack and Mrs. Elva Lambert, president of the ward Relief society, and Ephraim Lambert were the speakers. All spoke highly of the deceased. The grave was dedicated by S.M. Pack.
Mrs. Lambert was born Sept. 13, 1836, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was one of the first company of 15 that were baptised in Denmark, and was the first girl to join the church in that country. With her parents she emigrated to Utah, arriving in Salt Lake Sept. 30, 1852, walking nearly the whole distance across the plains. She married John Lambert in 1853. They moved to Kamas in 1861 and lived there ever since. She was the mother of 12 children, five of whom survive her: Joseph H. and Ephraim Lambert, Roosevelt; Mrs. Elena D. Michie, Tabiona; Mrs Cornelia Merrit, Lake Fork; Mrs. Emmeline Carpenter, Kamas. Her posterity numbers 166. She is also survived by one sister and one brother, Mary Oblad and John G. Larson, both of Salt Lake City.
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