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Given Name: Christina Amelia
Surname: Hessel

Gender: Female

Birth date: 27 June 1852

Birth place: Sweden

Death date: 16 April 1903

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Burial place: Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States

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Father: Petter Persson Hessel
Mother: Anna Margareta Svenson

Siblings

Charles Crismon (1807-1893)

Married 12 October 1867 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Rees, Joseph Alexander (1840-1922)

Married 24 June 1872 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Children

Rees, Amelia
Rees, Alfred
Rees, Augusta
Rees, Sylvia
Rees, Maryan
Rees, Maud
Rees, Esther
Rees, Bessie E
Rees, Zella
Rees, Octavia

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 08 May 1863 aboard the ship B. S. Kimball.
Arrived in New York, Kings, New York, United States on 15 June 1863.

Rees, Joseph A. - Autobiography

By Charles Crismon Christina had one child, Annie Telula Crismon. When Charles was called by Brigham Young to move from Utah to help settle Mesa, Arizona, Christina's mother requested a divorce for Christina from Charles Crismon. Anna Margareta Svenson Hessel had already lost her only other child, a son, to a lightning strike in her native Sweden, and could not bear the thought of losing her only remaining child to the American wilderness. Annie was raised by her mother's parents, Petter and Anna Margareta Hessel. Charles Crismon, however, continued to provide for her and on his visits to Salt Lake City would reportedly deliver money to the Hessel's to give to Christina--she and her second husband Joseph Alexander Rees apparently had very little.

Christina Amelia Hessel

Siblings