Descendants of Andreas Peter Hansen

Descendants of Andreas Peter HANSEN

FIRST GENERATION

   Andreas Peter HANSEN was born on 19 Mar 1858 in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He died on 30 Nov 1943 in Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa. He is buried in Oakhill Cemetery in Nashua Iowa.
   Andreas was born to Hans HANSEN and Christiana PETERSON. He grew up in Germany and was raised and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. At the age of 26 he sailed to America and settled in Fulton, Illinois where he took a job at a sawmill.
   The Mississippi River separates Fulton from Lyons, Iowa. Traveling between the two cities was easily accomplished by steam ferry, which was both cheap and convenient. Clinton and Lyons were sister cities at that time with Lyons being the most prominent. Residents of both towns often worked together and became well acquainted. When the railroad came through, Clinton grew and swallowed up the city of Lyons. Lyons no longer exists.

Andreas (Andrew)

Andreas was employed at a sawmill in Fulton Andreas where he met a fellow employee, Adolph Byers, the son of a German couple from Clinton, Iowa.

Adolph was married to Doris Jacobsen, a young German woman from Drelsdorg, Schleswig Germany. Doris had immigrated to America the same year as Andreas (1884). She came to America to join other members of her family who had also settled in the Fulton area.

(Father) Hans Hansen and (Mother) Christina Petersen

Andreas and the Byers were members of the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Clinton, Iowa.. Doris and Adolph had two sons, Fredrick Christian (born 1 Nov. 1884) and Josias Cornelius (born 13 Nov. 1890). Andreas was a sponsor for Josias' baptism and a close friend of the family.
When the Byers marriage ended in divorce, Josias remained with his mother and Frederick left with his father. Frederick was raised by his grandparents, Frederick and Christina Byers who lived on a farm outside of Lyons. Doris married Andreas Sept. 27, 1894 in Clinton, Iowa.

	Dora "Doris" H. JACOBSEN (daughter of Jacob JACOBSEN and Anna Marie HANSEN) was born on 22 Feb 1856 in Husum, Kreis, Schleswig-Holst, Germany. She died on 15 Oct 1904 in Fulton, Whiteside, IL. She was buried on 17 Oct 1904 in Fulton, Whiteside Co., Illinois The family had settled on a farm just outside of Fulton, Illinois where Harden was born on April 18, 1895. Ten years later, on Oct. 15, 1904, Doris died from Cardiac Dropsy at the age of 48. She was buried near the JACOBSEN family plot in the Fulton Cemetery.
Doris Jacobsen
	Andreas Peter HANSEN and Doris JACOBSEN had the following children: i. Josias "Joe" Cornelius (né BYERS) HANSEN ii. Harden HANSEN

After Doris’s death, Andreas and the two boys managed as well as they could. Joe was 14 and worked in the fields helping Andreas. Ten-year-old Harden boiled potatoes for their meals and tended to household chores. Andreas was a stern German who spoke only his native language at home. He depended heavily on his sons to accomplish the work on the farm. Eventually Andreas hired Emma Behrens to help with the house and meals

Andreas, Harden, and Joe

Andreas married Emma BEHRENS (daughter of Peter BEHRENS and Lena HANSEN) in 1907 in Clinton, Clinton Co., Iowa

Emma BEHRENS was born on 27 Feb 1875 in Clinton, Clinton Co., Iowa. She died on 13 Aug 1948 in Nashua, Chickasaw Co., Iowa. She is buried in Nashua, Iowa.
Emma was the daughter of Peter BEHRENS and Lena HANSEN of Clinton, Iowa. She was a thin, quiet woman who worked as a domestic employee prior to her marriage to Andreas in 1907. She had three children, two boys and a baby girl when she began working for Andreas. Emma’s sons, Harry and Art stayed in Clinton and were raised by their Behrens grandparents. Her daughter, Irene, remained with her.
Andreas and Emma moved with Joe, Harden and Irene to Nashua where they settled on a farm a few miles west of town. They lived and farmed there until retiring in 1938.

Andreas and Emma

After the children married and left home, Andreas and Emma moved to Nashua where they both remained active until Andreas’ death from a stroke on Nov. 30th, 1943. Emma then moved to Waterloo and lived with her daughter Irene until her death. Emma died of liver cancer and was buried beside Andreas in the Oakhill Cemetery in Nashua, Iowa.

Andreas Peter HANSEN and Emma BEHRENS had the following children: i. Irene Geneva HANSEN ii. Christine Dorothy HANSEN iii. Albert HANSEN
	Christine, Albert, and Irene (about 1914)

L to R: Harden, Emma (Albert in front) Andreas, Christine, Irene, Della (holding Esther), Joe, Lucille (in front) and Leora – 1920

Joe and Harden Hansen, 1961

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