Født 24 Jan 1864 Vrads sogn, Vrads herred, Skanderborg amt
Død 19 Nov 1918 California, USA
Fødsel
24 Jan 1864
Vrads sogn, Vrads herred, Skanderborg amt
Dåb 1 May 1864
Vrads Kirke
Konfirmation
14 Apr 1878
Nørre Snede Kirke, Vrads herred, Skanderborg amt
Folketælling
1880
Skanderborg, Vrads, Ejstrup, , Hus, 9,
Søren Nielsen 43 Gift Husfader Ejstrup Sogn
Maren Nielsen 52 Gift Husmoder Nørre Snede Skanderborg Amt
Niels Nielsen 15 Ugift Søn Ejstrup Sogn
Ide Petrea Jacobsen Grøndahl 16 Ugift Tjenestepige Godrom Aarhus Amt
Forkert opgivet fødested
Død 19 Nov 1918
California, USA
We do not know much about Jetta's life and how she got to the state of Virginia (from the name of the photographer on one of the pictures), then to San Bernardino, CA. There was a fairly large community of Danes in San Bernardino at the time. We have a large photo of the Danish American picnic in San Bernardino around 1900 or so, with quite a few people, over a hundred at least. It's too big to scan and send to you, sorry. We do know that Jetta ran a boarding house in San Bernardino, Agnes started working and helping her mother when she was old enough to reach the table and set the dishes on it. She went to school, then came home and washed dishes, did laundry and cooked for the men staying there at the boarding house. She remembered feeling a little angry that she had to help her mother all the time and her brothers did not (it was women's work!). It was never said exactly, but my mom and sister and I decided that Jetta ran the boarding house to have a regular income to feed her children. It sounded like her husband Chris might have stopped at the bar or pool hall on the way home and spent most of his pay on beers, and did not bring much money home. We do know that Jetta and Agnes worked hard, long hours at the boarding house. According to Agnes, Jetta died of cancer. Agnes felt it was because of a poorly done hysterectomy a year or two earlier that had been infected and her mother never felt right after the operation. I don't know what Chris died of but maybe it was a lifetime of too much beer! Agnes died of old age basically. My Grandma Agnes was a great Danish cook, butter and cream sauce on everything. When we came over, she would go to the local farm not far from their house and the farmer would let her go out to the fields and pick the vegetables right then. She was a fantastic pie maker and rarely used a recipe, she just cooked and it was so delicious! She was very tiny, maybe 5 ft tall at the most, she was probably only about 4'8' tall, when she died.
Udrejst til Amerika. Ankomst New York 12 april 1882 med ss Cimbria fra Hamburg og Havre. Rejste med sin bror Christen.
Kilde www.castlegarden.org
Name: Jette Grundal
Departure Date: 29 Mrz 1882 (29 Mar 1882)
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1864
Age: 18
Gender: weiblich (Female)
Marital Status: ledig (Single)
Residence: Glustadt, Dänemark (Denmark)
Ship Name: Cimbria
Captain: Ludwig
Shipping Line: Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft
Shipping Clerk: Aug. Bolten Wm. Miller`s Nachfolger
Ship Type: Dampfschiff
Accommodation: Zwischendeck
Ship Flag: Deutschland
Port of Departure: Hamburg
Port of Arrival: New York
Volume: 373-7 I, VIII A 1 Band 043 C
Page: 427
Microfilm Roll Number: K_1727
1910 census
Yetta Hansen in household of Chris Hansen,
Name: Yetta Hansen
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1910
Event Place: San Bernardino Ward 5, San Bernardino, California, United States
District: 122
Gender: Female
Age: 46
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Wife
Birth Year (Estimated): 1864
Birthplace: Denmark
Immigration Year: 1882
Father's Birthplace: Denmark
Mother's Birthplace: Denmark
Sheet Number and Letter: 2B
Household ID: 39
Line Number:
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M1283
GS Film number: 1374107
Digital Folder Number: 004327297
Image Number: 00829
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Chris Hansen M 47 Denmark
Wife Yetta Hansen F 46 Denmark
Son Andrew Hansen M 20 California
Daughter Agnes Hansen F 19 California
Son Harry Hansen M 18 California
Son John Hansen M 16 California
Nephew Otis Hansen M 21 California
Lodger John P Hansen M 26 Denmark]]