Hannah Ann Hansen

Biography

Hannah Ann Hansen was born on June 14, 1851 in Vridsløsemagle, Copenhagen, Denmark. Originally called Ane, she changed her name to Hannah following her move to the States. She was the third of eight children. in 1857, when she was just six years old, her parents took her and her siblings and left Denmark for Utah. Along the way, they were forced to stop in Iowa, where they stayed for four years. By the time they finished the journey to Utah in 1861, Hannah was ten and walked across the plains.
Once in Utah, the family settled in American Fork. Hannah's mother died the next year in childbirth, leaving Hannah and her siblings to take care of the household. A few years later, when she was seventeen, Hannah married John Spencer Conder in Salt Lake City. They made their home in American Fork and had eight children, four daughters and four sons, together.
In 1879, there was a diptheria epidemic. Hannah and John lost their three oldest children, all sons, within three weeks. Their youngest daughter at the time was the only child to survive. Hannah went on to have a son and three more daughters, with four of her children living to adulthood. She lived in American Fork for the rest of her life, passing away there on June 15, 1908. It was only a day after her fifty-seventh birthday. Hannah was buried in the American Fork Cemetery.