Short biographical sketch of Laura I. Mickelsen ancestry

              SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF LAURA I. MICKELSEN ANCETRY Fathers name: John Ingemann
Mothers name    Bergetta Ingemann  Laura I. Mickelsen was born August 27th, 1844  in Novland [Hovland], Norway. GIRLHOOD Her mother died when she was only nine years old, her father was drowed [drowned] when she was sixteen. She was then left parentless, among strangers. She
attended common school.
Conversion. She was converted to the gospel before her father's death
and at the age of sixteen was baptized into the church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, by Elder John Dahle. She was also confirmed by John Dahle, on August 13th, 1860.
Journey to Utah, She hired out to a family to work as a domestic for
them on her journey from Norway to Utah. She was to remain with this family
until her emigration had been fully paid. This family had no children.
Thay were well to do people and were very domineering so that Laura had a
hard time. She had been fully converted to the gospel and she joyously
passed through trials and  hardships on that journey that are almost unbelievable,
and some might say impossible all for the love of the gospel and the anticipation
of joy and happiness of gathering with the saints of God in the Rocky Mountains.
The journey took place in the year 1861 leaving Norway in April and landing
in Salt Lake City in September.
MARRIAGE:
She was married to Niels Mickelsen on the 9th of August, 1882 in the Endowment house in Salt Lake City. She is the mother of five sons and
four daughters.
Pioneer Life;  This began as early as her wedding trip. She in company
with her intended husband left Logan with a span of horses and a wagon.
After the marriage, the horses were traded for a yoke of oxen end some cows.
Her husband drove the oxen hitched to the wagon while Laura drove the cows
loose all the wey back to Logan. That is how she spent her honeymoon. Her
labors from the time she went to Logan were for others. To nurse the sick,
to cheer and comfort those who were in trouble, to help the needy, She was
always on hand to do good to all who needed assistance and to wash, dress
and lay out the dead. She never waited to be asked to go, but when she
heard of anyone in distress she would go night or day and do all she could.
This seems to have been her calling even In her pioneer life in Utah.