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- BIOGRAPHY:
1. Per email of 24 Dec 2001 from KeithShupe@aol.com: In referring to a conversation with Warner Hansen, Lawrence's son, Keith says: "He said that my telling him that his dad had gone to prison was a complete surprise. He thought mom divorced him about a year after he was born because he has a photo of his dad holding him as a baby. He said they were both 22 years old when they got married, but never knew where they were married but it wasn't Ogden. He said he has a photo of him in a military uniform and thought it was taken sometime during WW2. He said a cousin of his wife, Norma, was a Mormon and tried to track him down using the LDS library resources. All he could find was that he was adopted from a I believe a Denver orphanage. The [birth] father had a history of alcoholism and that he got a very young woman from a very wealthy family pregnant and when the baby was born he was given to the orphanage. He said that they used the same last name for all the orphans, and he thought it was Brown. He said that after he had grown up with the wealth that Mr. and Mrs. Hansen had and then lost in the stock market crash of '29, that he heard he went kinda berzerk and became not so nice of a guy. His new adoptive parents were Lawrence (Lars) and Caroline Hansen. Her maiden name was Caroline Jensen and she had a brother Simeon Jensen. Both her and her brother are buried in a graveyard in Huntsville, Utah. Dates of birth or death I don't know. The adoptive parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hansen were one of the most wealthy families in Ogden, living in a mansion that still exists in Ogden. Most of their fortune went south when the stockmarket crashed in 1929. Not long after that the two of them were hit by a train while in their car and Mr. Hansen died, but Mrs. Hansen was hurled from the car about 50 yards, knocking her shoes off her, but survived, but it did damage her hearing and had to wear a hearing aid afterwards. She died in a little cabin in my father's trailer park when I was in college and working in the summer for the forest service near Priest Lake, Idaho and couldn't come to the funeral. She was a very kind woman and was like a grandmather to Carole and me and we always called her grandma Hansen. I know she felt close to my mother because of the way her son, Lawrence had treated her. What little money she had when she died she passed on to my mother. Where he was imprisoned or for what my mother never told Warner, myself, or Carole. Strange as it seems she kept a box of letters in a shoe box he wrote to her from prison. Carole told me that and found that out when she moved from her apartment to the Gardens Nursing Home in Odgen. Whatever he did to my mom effected her for the rest of her life and she kept that bit of her history to herself as far as her children and my father were concerned. See, I told you this was going to be harder to trace than the one armed man from the 'Fugitive'."
2. Censuses:
1910 US: Ogden Ward 5, Weber, Utah, 21 Apr 1910, 2650 Madison Ave., 146/150:
Lars Hansen, 45, md. 20 yrs., Den Den Den, imm. 1866, naturalized, stock man.
Caroline, 40, md. 20 yrs., 1 child total and living, UT Den Den.
Lawrence, 1y 2m, UT Den Den.
MARRIAGE:
1. Familysearch's Utah Marriages: Lawrence L. Hansen and Thelma Peterson, m. Box Elder co., Utah 11 Apr 1928.
2. Alternate date also showing for marriage of Lawrence Hansen and Thelma Petersen is in Box Elder County, Utah records is 8 Apr 1928.
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
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