| Show Following his recovery fromserious illness in 1900 he experiencedricher fulfillment of his hopes for meaningful service He was ordainedPatriarch and during the following years gave more than one hundred blessings twenty-one of them recorded in Danish He assisted withrevision of the Danish Doctrine and Covenants and wasfrequent contributor to the Danish paper Bikuben He retainedclose relationship with his fellow immigrants CCA exhibitedpainting at the Utah State Fair in 1900 that has probably become his most popular work The Handcart Company He had experienced this event and included the numerous details that he recalled In 1901 he was assigned to assist Church Historian Andrew Jensen preparehistory of the Scandinavian Mission This was the highlight of his literary career Despite the fact that Andrew Jensen servedmission during this period CCA continued the record book was printed He received no credit when the CCA was quite nearsighted and in later years was plagued byhearing loss andkidney disorder Yet his mind was as clear as ever and his literary productivity continued He was traveling and preaching at the onset of an illness that claimed his life July 1912 at the age of 81 Elise had preceded him in death in 1910 They were the parents of six children Maren died in 1915 They are buried in the Ephraim Park Cemetery He wasvaliant giant in the gospel cause Documentation and Addendum Reprinted from CCA Christensen 1831-1912 Mormon Immigrant Artist 1984 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints Courtesy Museum of Church History and Arts Used by permission Inez Trythall family history of crossing the ocean on the sailing vessel Westmorcland and traveling in Christian Christensens Handcart Company in 1857 with CCA Christensen and his wife Elise Manasseh consists of several hundred acres west of Ephraim origially homesteaded by pioneer farmers Richard Christensen CCA descendent presently owns CCAproperty This includes the cabin erccted in the early 1870 has been used asgranary and was donsted to Ephraim City through the efforts of Fort Ephraim Daughters of Utah Pioneers Snow College Building Institute will move the historical cabin ontohistorical site in 102 |
