Jane Mary Sorensen

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GEDCOM Note

Jane Mary Hill Sorensen— The subject of this sketch, Jane Mary Hill Sorensen, the daughter of Alexander Hill, Jr. and Agnes Hood Hill, was born at Mill Creek, Salt Lake County, Utah, January 15th, 1855. She spent her girlhood days at Mill Creek, and received her education there. She was married in Salt Lake City, November 16, 1874, to Christian Sorensen of Mendon City, Cache County, Utah. Here she lived until the time of her death. She took an active interest in the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association of Mill Creek Ward while living there. She was a good Latter-day Saint, a devout Christian and a firm believer in the Gospel of Christ, as restored to the children of men in the last dispensation. during her last sickness, her husband was awakened at night by her distressing moans. He aroused her from an oppressive sleep, and she exclaimed, "Oh! How glad I am that you awakened me." She said that "Hannah," (who was a deceased relative) "wants me to go with her, and I can't leave my little baby!" Mrs. Sorensen died of confinement, departing this life October 23rd, 1875, and is interred in the Mendon City cemetery. She is the mother of one child, Agnes Katherine, born October 9th, 1875, who married William H. Todd of Mill Creek. [Dr. Daniel B. Hill Richards, Hill Family History, (Magazine Printing Company, 1927) page 124]