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Lamar's Ancestors See Pedigree charts 5 generations / 4 generations with places/dates
Rasmus Mads Englestead (as he was also known) was quite a man with a great history. He named himself after the town he came from in Norway, where he was an ordained a teacher for the Evangelist Lutheran Church at the age of 16. He did this for 7 years when he became a sailor and master of the ship, sailing from Holland to the East Indies. Rasmus heard the gospel from George Q. Cannon in San Francisco and asked Bro. Cannon to baptize him. In 1857 he helped with the building of the Salt Lake City temple. There, as he records, he was "ordained an apostle of the Seventies of the 14th Quorum." He soon married the widow Anne Margrethe Ohlsen Hansen of Norway and moved to Santaquin, Utah. He built several houses and set up farms and orchards in various locations until he settled in Mt. Carmel in 1871. In the summer the grasshoppers came in droves and they would try to gather them up in piles and burn them, but the crops of corn and potatoes were ruined. It was seven years of planting and tending the orchard before they produced any fruit. Then in 1885 there was a flood that wiped out most of the family's work-- crops, orchards, fences, bridge and home. The loss was devastating. His family records that Rasmus "had been, while sailing, to every seaport of importance in the world. He spent 15 years on the sea and occupied different standings from sailor to master of his ship. He could speak seven different languages and understood astronomy. He was doctor, and a tailor, also carpenter, a mining man and a school teacher as well as farmer." He passed on in the summer of 1896. Rasmus Mads Englestad was married to a woman who also had an awe-inspiring history. Born in Agershus [later Akershus], Norway, in 1819, Anne Margrethe Ohlsen worked hard as a child, taking care of her younger siblings, working in the fields, caring for the house and providing fish for the family meals. At age 13 she fell in a potato ditch and injured her leg grievously, which bothered her the rest of her life. When her two brothers and sister were old enough to help around the house, she was sent to work for another family. There she met and fell in love with Lars Jacobsen, was married and had a daughter, Mary. Not long after, Lars tragically died of cholera. Anne Margarethe was deeply heart-broken, but soon she met and married Embreth (or Engebret) Hansen. Together they joined the LDS Church and worked towards migrating to Utah. They had been asked to loan part of their savings to another family wishing to migrate, and they were forced to join a handcart company and give up all of their possessions that they had brought with them. Anne Margrethe's husband, Embreth, had been sick with consumption for years, and she was forced to empty the handcart so that she could push him as his sickness worsened. Then in the harshest weather, after being pushed along in the handcart by Anne, he passed away at Devil's Gate, Wyoming, in 1857. When she and her daughter Mary finally reached Salt Lake City, they were separated to work for their board for different families in the area as they had nothing left and no one to help them. Sadly, Anne's daughter, Mary, died when 17 as she had also been long ill since the trip westward. Little did Anne know that her subsequent marriage to Rasmus Madsen Engelstad would also be full of hardship. She followed Rasmus to the grave in the year of 1896. Their son, Engbreth (Brady), married Sine Sorensen in 1878 and in 1887 Maggie Eliza Englestead was born. Norway, by the way, was a part of Denmark from 1397 until 1814 when Sweden invaded Norway. They became independent in 1905. The Norwegian and Danish languages and cultures are very similar. See interactive map of Europe. See information about Denmark & Norway. Maggie Eliza Englestead Nielsen's mother, Sine Sorensen Englestead (1861-1937), as mentioned above, was born in Denmark. This would be Lamar's maternal grandmother. Sine also had an awe-inspiring life. Sine's father was Mads Sorensen and her mother was Kirsten (Kjisten) Larsen. They were both born and then married each other in Denmark. They joined the Church there and did much to help the early Saints in the Aalborg area. This is a story of Sine's older brother Sern (Soren) while still a child in Denmark:
Mads Sorensen raised money and sent Sine and three brothers with an aunt and uncle to migrate to Salt Lake City to live with the Saints. They sailed from Copenhagen to England and from Liverpool to New York. From there they took the train to Salt Lake City and arrived on July 24, 1873. The Danish people there had prepared dinner for the arriving Danes and how welcoming that was. The children were then sent to work and live with different families. Later, Sine's parents, Mads and Kirsten, arrived, but the children still worked for other families. A few years later Mads and Kirsten moved to Orderville to live the United Order and were able to have Sine come to live with them again. Sine Sorensen married Engbreth (Brady) Englestead in 1878. Sine gave birth to 9 children, one of whom was Maggie Eliza, Lamar's mother.
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 Zion National Park, home of our immigrant family 
Zion National Park  Zion National Park near Mt. Carmel click for enlargement History of Zion National Park More History of Zion National Park More Human History of Zion's  Ship with Akershus Fortress in the background Oslo, Norway (formerly Christianna) see interactive map of Europe  Lyngdal in southern Norway home of Rasmus Mads Engelstad 
Ill-fated handcart company where Anne Margrethe's husband Embreth died in 1857 at Devil's Gate, Wyoming see Migration Lists for Scandinavians 1847- 1868  Devil's Gate, Wyoming where Embreath died  Aalborg, Denmark, home of the Sorensen's  Denmark where the Nielsen's & Sorensen's originated  Old cableworks at the top of Cable Mountain  Cable Mountain in Zion National Park, Utah Hyrum would ride the cable down to the canyon floor click for enlargement  Zion-Mt. Carmel Tunnel that Hyrum helped build  Inside mile-long tunnel with cutaway and view of Zion |
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