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- THE TWINS
Anna Joransson was born 14 April 1840 in Lyngby, Malmohus (Skane Lan), Sweden, a twin to her sister Botilda Joransson.
Anna and Botilda were the first in their family to be converted to the Latter Day Saints faith, in August 1855. Anna and Botilda's parents were subsequently converted and the entire family began to be pressured for having left Lutheranism, the state religion of Sweden.
With her parents and siblings, and her father's brother Jons and family, Anna immigrated to the United States. The family left Sweden in October 1855, traveling first to Denmark, then to England. They left Liverpool, England on December 12, 1855, traveling on the wooden three-masted ship "John J. Boyd". They arrived at New York on February 18, 1856, then traveled to Keokuk, Iowa, where they worked for a year to acquire funding to complete their journey to the Utah Territory.
While they were in Keokuk, in 1856, Anna's twin sister Botilda married the Swedish missionary who had baptized their parents into the LDS church, Lars Nils Larsson. Sadly, Botilda died of illness shortly after, and her widower Lars Larsson married Anna and Botilda's first cousin Pernella Jonsdotter/Jonsson.
A VARIETY OF SURNAMES
The family members' names on the ship's New York passenger list were spelled by the clerk as "Soran Joransen" with "Karna, Peter, Botille, Anna, Elna, and Jens" also given Joransen as their surname.
Their names were further changed during their stay in Iowa, where Joransson became Jorgensson, and then finally Yorgason. Anna was married and had changed her surname to that of her husband's before her family's surname was changed to Yorgason.
HER OFFSPRING
She married Sondre Ostensen Bakka Sanders aka Sondra Sanders on December 1, 1857, at Salt Lake City, Utah. Three of their children died in infancy: Osten/Austin (1858), Joseph (1862), and Sarah Caroline (1865).
At her death in May 1879, Anna left eight children:
-Anna Matilda Sanders, age 19
-Sondra Sanders Jr., age 18
-Orson Sanders, age 16
-Heber Soren Sanders, age 11
-Peter James Sanders, age 8
-George Albert Sanders, age 5
-Mary Ellen Sanders, age 3
-Harriet Rosalia "Rose" Sanders, age 1 1/2 months
The children were then cared for by the eldest daughter, Anna Matilda Sanders. Even after Anna Matilda Sanders was married in 1881, the youngest child, Rose, was still cared for by her eldest sister.
Anna Joransson Sanders' husband, Sondra, was remarried on December 1, 1881, to a younger woman also named Anna, and he had two more children with his second wife.
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1840 - 1879 (39 years)
