Niels Mortensen, Sr. (center)
Deeded the property (West half of Lot 6, Block 19) to his daughter,
Annie Mortensen Rasmussen (far right) in February of 1901
Niels Mortensen and his wife Petriane emigrated to the United States in 1864 from Denmark. They were blessed with ten children. Petriane died in 1883. Niels was a prominent farmer and stockraiser and once owned the land in Ephraim where the cemetery is now located on Main Street. He died 9 April 1915.