Kaldte sig Christine Benson.
Christine Bendtsen Anderson, one of the first native women of the
island of Bornholm, Denmark, who embraced the gospel as preached by
Latter-Day-Saint Elders, is a daughter of Jeppe Bendtsen and Maren
Kristine Koefoed.
After learning the dressmaker's and tailors' trade in her native
town, she went to Copenhagen, where she joined the Baptist church.
When Apostle Erastus Snow and fellow-laborers came to Denmark in
1850, she was among those who heard their testimonies and believed
that they were men sent of God. She received a testimony, and was
baptized 24 August 1850, by Elder George P. Dykes, being the second
person from Bornholm to accept the gospel.
In the summer of 1851, she was called by Apostle Erastus Snow to
accompany two Elders to Bornholm, and help them in their work, by
finding a home for them and assisting them otherwise. She performed
that mission most faithfully. Not only did she secure a home for the


missionaries in her father's house, but she prepared the way for
them, in many instances, to preach the gospel. In a short time, all
the members of her father's family, except one, were converted to
"Mormonism" and emmigrated to America, leaving Denmark 20 December
1852. They all arrived in Utah in the fall of 1853, except Jeppe
Bendtsen, the head of the family, who was bitten by a dog in Hamburg,


Germany and returned to Bornholm. He emmigrated, however, the
following year. (This is questionable information because records
indicate that Yeppe, along with the rest of his family that
emmigrated, arrived in the Salt Lake Valley at the same time.)
Sister Christine was married to Mons Andersen, 3 July 1854, and lived


in Salt Lake City until April 1858, when they moved to Lehi, Utah
County, where they still reside.
Sister Andersen has been a teacher in the Relief Society in Lehi for
twenty years. She is the mother of six children, five of whom are
living at the present time.