Mette and her daughters

Mette Rasmussen and her daughters:
front row right:  Mette
left of Mette:  Anna Olevia Ramsussen
back left:  Ella Melissa Rasmussen Slaughter
back right:  Mette Kistina Rasmussen Matheson

Christian and his sons

Christian Rasmussen and sons:
Christen Henry next to Christian in front
top row from left:
James, Enoch, Joseph, John and George

Anna Olevia Rasmussen

What a beautiful woman.

Family Home

Picture outside the family home in Parowan, Utah

Mette and her Sisters

Mette Mortensen Rasmussen with her sisters

Christen Rasmussen

Christen Rasmussen was born April 5, 1825 in Lolland, Denmark. He served his time as a soldier before and through the Prussian War. At the close of the war, he heard the gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. His brother Neils became a local missionary, and his two sisters and his mother also joined the church. His father never did. About 1853, he and his cousin Jorgen Hansen emigrated to the United States, by way of New Orleans. His mother and younger brother Jorgen followed a year later. His mother contracted cholera and died there. He settled in Parowan and became friendly with the Mortensen family, as they were they only people he could talk to, as his English was limited. He immediately fell in love with Mette, but she was too young. He was thirty years old, and he waited for her, and they were married when she turned eighteen.

Mette Mortensen Rasmussen

Mettie Mortensen was born in Neun, an island of the northern Denmark, on 2 May 1845. She came to the United States as a small girl with her family. It took the family seven and half weeks to cross the ocean. Her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and had to leave Denmark because of the family's choice to join the church. Her family walked across the plains to Utah with the Willie Handcart Company. The whole family survived the ordeal and settled in the small Utah town of Parowan. She was the last surviving handcart pioneer to pass away on 5 July 1935.