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Show CHAPTER TWO: HIS MOTHER One day in 1852 a crowd of people gathered in front of a nail factory in Feunen (Fynn) Denmark. Literature was passed out to them by two young missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). Anna Lucia Simonsen Abel Krause was in that group and the factory belonged to her and her husband, Johnn Frederick August Krause-a stern Prussian. After Anna's first husband (Abel) died, she was left with a daughter and a son: she advertised in the Danish Star News for a manager to operate her wheelwright and nail factory. Krause answered the ad, was hired, and proved to be a capable man. Anna married him later and they became the parents of six children. At the time Anna first heard the missionaries her living children numbered six-two from her Abel union and four by Krause, as two had died. Anna and an intimate friend, Marie Frandsen (recently widowed), went to the meetings held by the missionaries and II |