Bradley Family History

Hans Jacob Arnoldus & Inger Sophia Frederikka Sorensen

1810-1889   1842-1920

Hans Jacob Arnoldus was born 8 May 1810 in Bornholm, Denmark to Jockumsen Arnoldus and Johanna Christensen.   He first married Marie Larsen on the 24th of February 1830. They were later divorced.   He later married Hedevig Clausen on the 12 Feb 1857, they were later divorced. Hans joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 24 June 1867.

Inger Sophia Frederikka Sorensen was born 10 May 1842 in Copenhagen, Denmark to Carl August Renaldo Sorensen and Frederikka Wilhelmine Bugge.   
Inger was a convert to the Latter-day Saint Church and was baptized 10 April 1867.

Later that summer in the far-off land of Copenhagen, Denmark, Hans Jacob Arnoldus and Inger Sophia Fredrikka Sorensen joined hands in matrimony on the 1st of July 1867.   In 1868, along with their six month old daughter, Eliza Josephine, they sailed to America.   They chose to make their home in Moroni, Utah. In Moroni they had seven more children:   Margaret Christina, Hans Jacob, Sophia Johannah, Carl Issac, Anna Maria, Abraham, Andrew Hansen.   

When the children were young they learned all the chores and duties of farm life.   They worked in the fields with their father, putting in many long, hard hours.   The girls also learned the arts of cooking, milking cows, and tending a garden.   The children attended the Moroni schools and received a fair education.

They built one of the nicest brick homes in Moroni.   Hans Jacob later followed the Prophet’s revelation and married a second wife, Dorthea Majane Daniels, also from Denmark, on 24 November 1874 in the Endowment House, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Hans Jacob died the 7th of December 1889 in Moroni, Utah.   Inger Sophia lived for many more years.   Inger Sophia moved to Cody, Wyoming to be near her son Hans Jacob, who had a hide and fur business there. She died the 10th of March 1920 in Lovell, Big Horn County, Wyoming.   She was buried in Salt Lake City, Utah.