1860

 On the journey at Omaha, Nebraska Søren married Elna Petersen with whom he made his honeymoon trip by pulling a hand-cart across the plains.
Søren lived in Forest Dale Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah and found employment in Salt Lake City and after a few years commenced work at his trade as a carpenter on the Tabernacle.
1)Temple & Tabernacle

2) Tabernacle

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1861 17th February ordained a Seventy Feb. 17, 1861, by W. S. Brundage and became a member of the 62nd quorum of Seventy.
1867 9th March he married Christina Rasmusdatter.
1868 8th April he married Karen Caroline Juliusdatter.
1876 - 1878 in Denmark - Branch President of the Mission at Aarhus, Denmark, and later revived missionary labours very successfully on the island of Bornholm.

Here he met Ane Johanne Katrine Jensdatter who was the choir leader for the mission services. They married on the 12th September 1878.
1884 21st February he married Petrea Cathrina Hansen
1885 Moved to St. John, Arizona, during the anti-polygamy raid, where he spent two years
1887 Moved to Mancos, Colorado, where he spent 23 years and engaged in ranging on a large scale.
The Mancos valley was settled by ranching families in the early 1880's

In 1891 the Rio Grande Southern Railroad reached Mancos on its way to the silver mines of Telluride and Rico. Mancos, boomed, becoming a thriving commercial center based on lumber, cattle, and produce grown in the Montezuma valley. Mancos is a quiet town today nestled into one of the most beautiful valleys in the state.

 

The following photographs were taken from the Mancos Times Tribune archives. Mancos is a town where you can still enjoy an old fashion Fourth of July, see cowboys riding into town on horseback and even take a stage coach ride.


Authentic stage coaches are often seen in town.

 

 

 


Wagons are still used on a number of local ranches and are seen in town events.



People still gather for an old-fashoned Fourth of July.


 

 

Cowboys and horses are often seen along the highway and in town.





Many buildings in town were built near the beginning of this century.

 
1909 Moved back to the Forest Dale Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah, on the same ground that he originally purchased from Zina D. H. Young about 1878, he being one of the settlers at Forest Dale.
Children in front of the Forest Dale School, Salt Lake City, 1896.

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George Albert Smith Collection
1917 Søren died on the 27th April 1917. By his five wives he became the father of 25 children, sixteen of whom survived childhood. When he died he was survived by two wives, sixteen children, to grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery. Grave Location: J-20-12-1-S2 E

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