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Atkin, Luella M., "The Happiest Day of His Life," Juvenile Instructor

Atkin, Luella M., "The Happiest Day of His Life," Juvenile Instructor, February 1, 1901.

ACROSS THE PLAINS WITH A HANDCART MIRACULOUS CROSSING OF GREEN RIVER.
The 18th of December, 1899, being the forty-fifth anniversary of the wedding of my grandparents—William and Rachel Atkin, of St. George—a number of the family after doing justice to the good things provided on the dining room table, repaired to the parlor, and on looking at my grandparents comfortably seated in their chairs, I ventured to ask, "Is not this the happiest day of your lives?"After a few moments' reflection, grandpa said, "Well, this is certainly a happy day, to be so comfortably situated in this beautiful, quiet home, blest with so many loving friends and with such pleasant surroundings; but to give a direct answer to your question I must say, No, and I shall have to go back forty years, to May, 1859, to tell you the real happiest day of our lives: when, after seven years of diligent labor, with prayer to our Heavenly Father to open the way for us to gather to Zion, we found ourselves at Florence on the banks of the Missouri River with our two children, (both under two years of age,) preparing to cross the plains.
	"On the ninth day of June, 1859, our company, consisting of two hundred and thirty-five souls, sixty handcarts and six wagons, started to cross the plains, bound for the Salt Lake Valley.
	"Although we knew our journey must be accomplished by hard labor, yet our hearts fairly leaped for joy at the thought that now we were in very deed starting out for the land of Zion, where we had so long desired to be; and as we started our voices rang out with the 'Handcart Song,' the chorus being:<blockquote>For some must push and some must pull, As we go marching up the hill, So merrily on the way we go, Until we reach the Valley, O.</blockquote>
	"Before long we came to large, swollen streams, as the snow in the distant mountains was just melting. We had to wade and carry our children and then pull our carts through.
	"A few days brought us to a place called Genoa, which consisted of a few dugouts and one small house. Here two men with ox team and a few cows, asked the privilege of traveling with the handcart company. As ox teams were passing almost daily for the same destination we wondered why they wanted to travel with us; but the first night told the tale, as they milked their cows and with pail and measure went from cart to cart to sell the milk, and as there was little money in the train they soon possessed it.
	"A few days after having made a big day's drive we camped near to the only water for twenty miles. Here was a large body of Sioux Indian warriors, said to be about six hundred in number. These were the first Indians we had seen. They demanded flour and bacon from our captain and we were all so frightened that they got all they asked for.
	"At night we placed a double guard, and, it being a dark night, we put out our fires early to prevent the Indians from seeing us. We drew our carts close together and longed for daylight to come. Some went to bed, and when all was perfectly still, we were aroused by one of the most hideous noises that I ever heard. It was the Indians. Some of them had on buckskin suits covered with bells. They sang, and jumped, and knocked down one of our tents that was full of people, mostly women and children. It was no wonder the women screamed and the children cried; as we all thought it was an Indian war dance, of which we had heard so much.
	"The Indians, perceiving our fear, took advantage of it. They had what was fun to them, but to us there was no fun in it. We were already up when the day dawned and were soon traveling with the hope that we should see the Indians no more; but we had traveled but a few miles when a number of them came as fast as they could ride, shouting like demons, with their long hair flying in the breeze. They tormented us for hours, and this, our fist Indian experience, was a terror to us in very deed.
	"Our hard work gave us keen appetites and most of us ate our rations in about half the time that they should have lasted. Then we would ask for more, and, of course, we got it. As we had only seventy pounds of flour for ten weeks; (unless we could make the trip in less time) it followed that we should have to go short at the latter end. We had scarcely reached half way when we found, to our sorrow, that our provisions were nearly gone; then each person had to do with one pound of flour for two days and we felt the pangs of hunger. We had four persons to each cart. Our four consisted of myself, your grandma and our two children. Thus, there being but two of us to pull our cart it made our work very hard indeed. One day as we were traveling along, in this hungry condition, I saw a sheep some distance from the road. I was at once impressed to try to get it. Accordingly I pulled our cart on one side of the road. Seeing what I was doing, our companions made fun of me, but I started out, at the same time offering up a silent prayer to our Heavenly Father to assist me, and to my joy it was but a short time until I caught the sheep and I assure you it was a very good mutton. This was a great help to us, and we divided the meat with those who had small children.
	"We traveled on until the next day, when, to our sorrow, our rations were reduced to a pound of flour for four days, and then we felt more than ever the pangs of hunger; children were crying for bread and their parents were unable to give them any.
	"We traveled on as best we could. We had in our company, brethren who were fishermen, and they expected to catch some fish when we came to the Platte River and the other streams. They were well supplied with fishing tackle, but they too were disappointed.
	"We traveled all the way on the north side of the Platte River, as it was so high we could not cross. When we were almost opposite Chimney Rock your grandma became very weak and had a hard time to get along; when we camped at night she was quite sick.
	"The next morning I tried to get her in one of the wagons to ride, but in this I failed. The teamsters said the wagons were all full, so we started on; and although the road was good, though your grandma being sick and not able to help pull our cart, we soon got behind the train. She took hold behind the cart until she fell on the ground exhausted. I then assisted her into the handcart and pulled along the best way I could. At a bend in the road we lost sight of the train altogether; finally we came to a steep sand hill. I helped your grandma and the children up the hill, then carried our loading, and then had a hard time in getting our cart there. While I was pulling the cart up that steep sand hill, I saw more stars than I had ever seen before at any time, as everything around me looked like stars. On the other side of the summit of the hill we found a steep down grade. I loaded up with all I possessed, wife children and effects, and traveled down the hill, at the foot of which our company had been taking their mid-day meal and rest. As we reached there the teamsters were just hitching their teams to the wagons to start on again. I succeeded in getting your grandma with the children into one of the wagons that afternoon, which was the only time she ever rode on the whole journey.
	"As we traveled, we came to a bed of cactus, commonly known as the prickly-pear. We tried many ways to cook them. Some took their last morsel of bacon and peeled the pears and then fried them with it; some peeled and boiled them; some peeled and roasted them in the fire. A few persons did mange to eat a little, but it was a general failure.
	"One day at noon we came to a spring in a grove of timber. As we stopped our carts we saw a large sage hen just over our heads in a tree. I took my gun and shot it, and thus we were again provided with meat. Thus the Lord blessed us above many of our companions.
	"About sundown we came to a small stream of water where we intended to camp for the night; but soon after we stopped a band of Indians, men, women and children, joined us. Some of our company were eating their scanty morsel and had knives, forks and spoons on the ground. Although every eye watched, the Indians stole everything they could touch; it did seem as though they were witches in very deed. Although it was then sundown of a long July day, and we were tired with a hard day's journey and were also ten miles to the next water, yet we decided to travel on. When the Indians saw us start out they got very angry and did all they could to hinder or stop us. Some rode their horses in front of us, some rode on each side and some behind. They did not shoot but they annoyed us in every conceivable way for a number of miles. We arrived at the Sweetwater about midnight. We were tired, and hungry with nothing more to eat that night, as we had eaten all we dare for that day. We camped there that night and then had a short day's journey to the Devil's Gate.
	"At the Devil's Gate we found a young man who had preceded his sweetheart the year before. She and her parents were in our company, but he did not know it. Like many others he came to see the novelty of the handcarts. To his surprise he met his sweetheart face to face. They were married that day; our captain performed the ceremony. While here in camp, I noticed two men walking from one cart to another. They soon came to mine, then stopped. To my surprise, on of them called me by name. They were two men that had left the place where we were living a year before to go to California, and having here found profitable employment they had stayed. They said that they had heard we were out of provisions. I told them we were. One of them said, 'We are keeping a station in that house (at the same time pointing to a house near by) and if you will come with us we will send your wife something to eat.' They did so and we stayed with them three days.
	"We traveled on until we came to the South Pass. As was my custom I here started out in the morning ahead of the company, so as to be sure not to be behind at night. Soon after we started we came to where the roads forked. We took the road which we thought was the right one. We traveled on till about noon without seeing anybody of any signs of our company. At this time two men on horseback came along and told us that we were on the wrong road, and it would take us till night to get back to the right road. They said if we would take particular notice a mile or two on ahead we would see a dim track, which, if we followed, would lead us back to the Little Sandy, but we would have to travel about two miles through large sage brush. We followed their directions and found the way just as they had directed us. We arrived at the Little Sandy about the middle of the forenoon of the next day; having camped by ourselves during the night alone, without food or water.
	"After resting and refreshing ourselves with the small amount of food we had, we again started, and as soon as we arrived on the bench we saw the handcarts only a few miles away; we overtook them at the Big Sandy. At this time the handcart people were in a starving condition and here a scene transpired I shall never forget.
	"At this place was a mail station. There were three or four mountaineers and traders, a stage-driver and mail agent, being seven or eight men in all. With more whisky in them than good, common sense—when the handcart company came up, two of the men called out, 'We want a wife!' and 'Who wants to marry us!' and to our great surprise and sorrow two of our young women stepped out and said they would marry them. One of the two had a lover in our company and they had always appeared affectionate and kind to each other; but their starving condition drove all natural feelings from them. We tried all in our power to persuade them to continue their journey with us, but to no purpose. So there were two marriages that day in mountaineer style."
	"Did you ever hear any more of those girls?" I asked.
	"Oh, yes!" said grandpa, "they came to Salt Lake City. One of them was accompanied by her husband; and although he did not join the Church, they got along reasonably well. The other only lived with her husband a short time, and in about two years after she and her lover were reconciled and he in his love and mercy forgave her all, and they were married and lived in Salt Lake City.
	"After these men had made matters satisfactory with the two girls about their marriages, one of them asked if there was a butcher in the company. I said I was one. He said he wanted a beef killed. I told him if he would give my wife and child something to eat, that I was ready to dress their beef. The men gave your grandma and the elder child all they wanted to eat; and when I had dressed the animal they gave me a loaf of bread and quite a large piece of beef.
	"Our train had now gone and it was near sundown when we left. I bade those girls a sorrowful farewell; and thanked God for again providing us with food. We traveled on until dark and again camped alone. Although we were in an Indian country and nearly every white man we met was an avowed enemy of the Mormon people, yet we were not afraid, but laid down and took sweet rest. In the morning we started out early and on arriving at the Green River, we found that our company had crossed it the night before and they were gone out of sight. Your grandma and I looked at the river and I said to her, 'We cannot cross this river alone.' She replied, 'No, but the Lord will help us over.' At these words my heart seemed to leap for joy and I said, 'Yes, He surely will.' We then knelt down and in all humility told our Heavenly Father that we were doing all in our power to keep His commandments and to gather to Zion; and now we had come to this river and could not cross it alone. We knew He could help us and we now relied on Him to assist us over. Your grandma and I then pulled our cart into the river, which was swollen; we could see the deep water just ahead of us, but every step we took the deep water was still one step ahead of us, and we landed on the western bank without even wetting the axletree of our cart. Our hearts were full of gratitude to our Heavenly Father for thus again answering our prayers.
	"We traveled on a few miles and found our company camped in a bend of the river. The scene that there met our gaze was heartrending in very deed. Children were crying for bread, and their parents had none to give them. We again divided our little with the mothers with small children as far as it would go.
	"As we traveled along by the river, an aged sister (Jarvis, by name) sat down, gave two or three heavy sighs and her spirit departed. We buried her by the wayside. A short distance from her grave we came to a mail station and store, but we could get no assistance from them as the men who kept them had nothing but curses for the Latter-day Saints. One of these men wanted to hire some men to cut hay. I stayed and helped put up some of the coarsest hay I had ever seen put in a stack. We cut down tress, some of them a foot through and piled them up, then stacked a little hay around them and on the top. It made a very large stack but with very little hay in it. This hay was put up on contract for the United States government, by these same parties who so despised the Mormons; and this was the example they set before strangers who had left the land of their birth and come to what they had been taught was the land of the free, where every citizen should be as interested in taking care of the government property as of his own, but we were led to say, 'Oh! Consistency thou art a jewel!'
	"We stayed there ten weeks; procured provisions and then started again for the land of our choice. Just before we reached Bridger, some teams that had been to some ranches with provisions came along, and we paid them to bring us to Salt Lake City, where we arrived on the tenth day of November, 1859. That was indeed the happiest day of our lives, for after a hard journey of one thousand miles with the handcarts, we had now arrived at the place we had toiled so long to reach."

Transcript for Atkin, Luella M., "The Happiest Day of His Life," Juvenile Instructor, 1 Feb. 1901, 76-79

Atkin, Luella M., "The Happiest Day of His Life," Juvenile Instructor.

Atkin, William, Autobiographical sketch, in St. George Stake, High Priest Quorum Genealogical Records, 1872-1906, reel 6039, 245, in Record of Members Collection 1836-1970

Atkin, William, Autobiographical sketch, in St. George Stake, High Priest Quorum Genealogical Records, 1872-1906, reel 6039, 245, in Record of Members Collection 1836-1970.

<xhtml:p xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">in the Spring of 1855 myself and [wife] started for America[.] Sailed on the Ship Siddons and landed in the City of Philladelphia on the 20 of April 1855. We staid around there until the spring of 1859, having two children born there. we then started for Salt Lake City crossing the Plains in 1859 in Captain Rowleys hand Cart company with our two little ones and footsore and tired and short of food we traveled over the plaines in that hard and laborious way and while a number laid down their lives through hardships and hunger that we had to endure God preserved us and our little ones and we landed safe in Salt Lake City that fall with thankful hearts to God for His many mercies to us and I pray we may never forget His kindness to us through that hard and wearysome journey. </xhtml:p>

Transcript for Atkin, William, Autobiographical sketch, in St. George Stake, High Priest Quorum Genealogical Records, 1872-1906, reel 6039, 245, in Record of Members Collection 1836-1970

Deseret News

Latter Day Saints' Immigration

"Latter Day Saints' Immigration", Deseret News, August 24, 1859, Page 5.

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NAMES OF PERSONS IN CAPT JAMES BROWN'S COMPANY, ORGANIZED AT FLORENCE, JUNE 12, 1859: 
William Steele and family 
Lara Olsen 
James Hickson 
Nels and Botila Nelsen 
John A. Stalker 
Pider and Ola Nelssen 
Mildred Johnson 
John Christian Yensen [Jensen] and family 
N. W. Birdno and family 
John Owen 
John Johnsen and family 
Mary B. Farell 
John Larsen and family 
Solomon Gamet and family 
Karna Larsen and family 
Enoch Lewis and family 
Pider [Peter] Ahlstrom and family 
G[eorge]. L. Farell and family 
Karen Christiansen 
Anne Milton and family 
Marie Landstrom 
Samuel Dickson 
Ola Neilson and family 
R. E. [Eli] Kent and family 
Beritia Johnsen [Bertha Jensen] 
George Sparks 
Bengt and Oilya [Cilia or Sissa] Malmgren 
Martha Smith 
Hannah Jorensen 
George Pierce and family 
Pernella Jorensen 
Lucindo and Lucy A. Cady 
Andre and Marie Ekeland [Ekland] 
Hanna Sparkes [Sparks] 
Aanna Christian and Mathilde Bergton [Bergtop] 
Daniel Campbell and family 
James Morell 
A[nders]. O. [Olsson] and Ingre [Ingra] Nyborg, 
Aman Campbell and family 
Anders and Korner [Karner] Nelson 
Samuel Handy and family 
Ichumra Sanberg [Sandberg] 
George Sparkes and family 
Magnus and Turider Jarnesen [Jerensen] 
Samuel and Grace Davidson 
Sarah Parsons 
Christina Magnusem [Magnuson] 
Maro Rymer 
Lopter Johnsen and family 
William McKay and family 
Gadni Erasmus 
Ann and Mary Garvy 
Vicka and Gustaf Jornesen 
William Crotcher 
Sorein and Maren Nelsen 
John Bassett and family 
Christin Andersen and family 
Lacinda [Lucinda] Ann John A. Root 
Jhon Dhalsks 
Edmund and James Dicks 
Ann Hansen 
Mary Eveline 
Neils Nelsen 
James Goodwin and family 
Lars Jensen 
Charles and Ann Clipton [Clifton] 
Karen M. Gorensen 
Robert, Ann and Eliza Garnett 
Jens B. Jensen 
Mik[k]el Rasmusen and family 
Phoebe, James A., and Ches. [Charles] W. Gibson 
Ingilon Tomson 
Goren Sorensen and family 
William Gittings and family 
Frederick Longemust [Longmark] and family 
George Watson and family 
Margaret Axley 
L. Jensen 
James Hay 
Anne Kutrusa 
Mary and Joseph H. Kay 
Jens and Hans Jensen 
Eliza Slack 
Anie Sidersom 
John C. Reader and family 
Anne Didero 
Catharine Glass 
Sophia Ciderstrom 
Levi and Charlotte Minnerly 
Anders Hokeberg and family 
Eliza I Rion [Rich] 
Elna Anna and Christen Anderson 
Sarah Steers 
James and Mary A. Finlayson 
Cilya Ryback 
John Larsen and family 
Sarah Alexander and daughter 
C[arl]. A. Zit[t]ing 
William Wright and family 
Thomas Wand 
John Frost 
Robert and Ann White 
Amos [Ambrose] Greenwell and family 
Philip, Mary and Ellen M. Sharp 
Ann Hill 
Joseph Russell 
John and Mary Trascott 
Edward Haskshom 
Jeremiah Stocks and family 
J. C. Darrow and family 
Stephen Coup[e] 
Seth Wood and family 
Christopher Seeston 
Typhene Fairchild[s], sen. 
Thomas Stocks and family 
Typhene Fairchild[s], jun. 
John H. Gordon and family 
William Cole and family 
Ann Smith 
Mason Cutler and family 
Joseph Wintel 
William C. Rounde [Rounds] and family 
John Larsen and family 
Lans Olsen 
Richard W. Call 
Maria Hyalteny 
Rachel Williams and family 
Anna Marsen 
David Evans 
Neils Harsen 
Charles Harman and family 
Dedrick Funck [Funk] and family 
Thomas and Ann Rogers 
Hannah and Sidsea Johnson 
William Howell 
Oler Fullsen and family 
John Jones 
John Johnsen and family 
James Price 
TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONS, 252.



NAMES OF PERSONS IN CAPTAIN HORTON D. HAIGHT'S COMPANY



Frederick Kesler, Alexander Piper [Pyper] and family, John King, Anna Kirk, Ellen Jones, Betsey Titt, Levi Garret, Anthony Wilson, John G. Hogland and family, James Whitehead, Charles C. Dulin, Charles H. and Mary Crow, James Davenport, Ann Booth, Mary Gurney, Lewis Osborn, Caroline Harris and family, Agnes Steel, Patrick Burns.



Henry A. Smith, Louis Palanteen, John Harvey, Jesse Field and family, John Taylor, Alexander Ott and wife, Francis Bolto, Shadrach Jones, Thomas Baker, Francis Broadbent, Isaac Howells, Thomas Lonhust [Longhurst], Matthew and Wm. Mott, Adam Pall, John and George Horrocks, William Royal, Daniel Jacobs, Jacob Wagon, Frederick Holland, Benjamin P. Mortengrane, Samuel Young, Andrew Christopherson, Neils Andersen, Josiah Combs [Coombs], Josiah Holland, Benjamin and Anna Harman, Joseph and Maria Davis, William Crowther, James and Alice Crane.



John Evans, William Davis, Talaesen [Taliesen] Hughs, Henry, Eliza and Edmund Love[s]ay, Thomas Foote, wife and child, Elijah Parsons, Noah Mee, John Bone, William and Eliza Slack, Miles and Jane Williams, Samuel Fletcher, Thomas Prill, Thomas Jones, Margaret and William Bate, William and Emily Hart, Joseph Price, Robert and Chas. Harman, David Longhurst, John and David Louis, Thomas Lenham, Daniel Smoth [or Smith], Isaac Allen, William Hay, Joseph Beacroft [Beecroft], and family, John Marcroft and family, William W. Reed, Daniel Saberniller, John and Ellen Sutherland, David Roberts, Simon Smith, John Riggs.



James Hodges, Jabez Dangerfield, Daniel House, wife and child, William Cook, John Chamberland, James H. Rigg, William Walker and family.—Total, 134.



NAMES OF PERSONS IN THE HAND-CART COMPANY, CAPTAIN GEORGE ROWLEY.



Mark and Bithiah Lindsey, Paul Henry and Elise Moriell [Morrell], Thomas MacIntyre [McIntyre], Sarah Tuffley, Ann Lewis, Richard Hills, Richard A. Cooper, Agnes Birrel [Birrell], Ellen Lyde [Gyde], Emma Booth, Maryannne Nuns, James Harris, Sarah and Catherine Farrer, Henry Olpin and family, Ann Wright and daughter, Ann Godfrey, Joseph Gilbert, Edward Moor an family, Emma Cook, William Jarvis and family.



Thomas Martin, Reuben Atkins, Henry and James Hobbs, John Smith and family, Martha McRay [McKay] and family, Tullerton [Fullerton] Stewart, Mary Kirkpatrick, Henry Florence, William and Lovina Mann, Abraham Duffin, William Adams, Elizabeth Watson, Clara Bartlett, Catharine Fahy, John Ince, William Wild and family, Margaret and John Thornley, Ebenezer and Sarah Beazley [Beesley], Thomas and Louisa Maycock, Henry I. Strugnell, Emma Slade, Richard and Sarah Jones, Fanny Fry, Frances E. and Sarah A. Pearson, Joseph and Mary Schofield, Thos. Schofield.



Elizabeth Gledell [Gledhill], Joseph and Sarah Broadbent, Elizabeth Dixon, William Whitehead, Mary Henthorn, Squire Thornton, Mary Ann and Franklin Andrews, William and Jane Robison, Benjamin and Eliza Lamb, Edward and Mary J. Shanks.



James and Catharine Davis, Mary Shaw and family, Mary and Franklin Davies, Thomas and Maryann Dickinson, William Scogings, Louisa Budd and family, Chas. Wilson and family, Joseph Ligget, Mary Ward and family, James Turnbull, Benjamin Hibbert, George and Harriet Jones, George Stedman [Steadman], John and Ann Cartwright, Maria Jane and Alice Hanson, Esther Yeats, George Reid, Rebecca and Adelaide Harris, Jonathan Wolsteinham [Wolstenholme], Jane Mitchell, Matilda Barrett, Ann Hibbert, Mathias Nibyon.



A. Titting, Aldertine Bertelson, Caroline Simeon, Carl Rosburg [Rosberg] and family, Lars Mattison and family, Ola Yenson [Yenson or Jenson] and family, Tufne [Tufra] and B. Bengtson, Maons [Mons] Larson and family, Martin Hansen and family, Anders Yonson, Annes Stungberg [Strongberg], Mary Petroel and family, William Atkin and family, Yens and Johannes Yonson, Neil and Hanna Olsen, Peter Lanson [Larsen] and family, Soren M. Wadd [or Vadd] and family, Henrok Preson [Henrich Pearson] and family, Heahan [Haagen] Anderson, Mathilde Arvidson, Peter and Sophia Yorgensen, Yoron [Jorgen] Olson.



Ola Rosenblad, Anders Y. Yonson and family, H. O. and Mary Hagleby, Christine and Karen Petra Hagenson [Haagensen], Lars C. Christiansen [Christensen], Nils Christian, Christine S. Christiansen [Christensen], Rasmine Christoffasen [Christoffrson] and family, Peter Peterson, Christian Sorenson and family, Soren Sorenson and family, Anders Sorenson and family, Tomas C. Christiansen [Christensen] and family; Frank Pitman, Robert McKay and family, James Harris.—Total number of persons, 235.



NAMES OF PERSONS IN THE EUROPEAN COMPANY, Capt. Robert F. Neslin.



James Wood, George D. Keaton and family, Mary Ann Tuffley, Caroline Woods, Joseph Watson, James Bond and wife, Ann Boot, Emily Lovell [Lovatt], H[enry]. H. Harris [Harries] and Mary, Mary Wild, James, Eliza and Harriet Smuin, Maria, Edward and Adele Dessaules, Jeremiah Whitehouse, Elijah Tamms, Sarah J. Thomas, Sarah Gilbert, William Seymour, Charlotte Burciot [Barclot], James McArthur and family, Nathan Hanson and family, William Wilcock and family, William Cullimore and family, Charles Kidgall [Kidgell], Martha Bates, John Higson and family, Christopher and Ann Sprout [Sproat], John Slade, John and Elizabeth Slade, Caroline Callort,



Charles Barrett, James Gillmen [Gillman], George Kirkham and family, James Payne and wife, William Busby and family, Givinllyn [Gwenllian] Martins [Martin], Owen Roberts and family, Thomas Burchell, Mary Davis, W. T. Teitgen [Tietjen] and family, Nils Lanson, Elma True, Magnus A. and Elyse [Elsa] Fynands [Fyrando], Yens Neilson and family, Jones Halverson and family, Rasmus Yenson [Jensen], Ann L. Anderson, Sophia and Amie Christiansen, Neils Peterson.



Thrine [Lena Dorthea] Hanson [Hansen] and family, Soren P. Guhl and family, Martha Christoffson, Hans Andersen, J. C. Granstein [Grovenstien] and family, Rosina [Rasmine] F. Frantsen [Frandsen], H[ans]. L. Dastrap [Dastrup] and family, Ingerborg [Ingeborg] Peterson and son, Mattea Yenson, Badil and Neils Peterson, Maren Anderson, Yens Peterson, H. C. Klingbeck and family, Mattea [Mette] M. Hanson and family, Thos. C. and Else M. Yenson [Jensen], Jacob and Inger K. Christiansen, Yens [Jens] Hanson and family.



Mads P. and Karen Rasmusen, Yens [Jens] and Anna [Anne] M. Mickleson, Yens Mickleson and family, Martha Betsen [Bentson], Rasmus Neilson, Neils and Ilnak Ogord, Hans Hanson, Yens Neilsen and family, Maren K. Olsen, L. [Johan] F. Klingback and family, Mattea M. Christiansen, Johanna M. Hanson, Maria Fygesen [Tygesen], H[ans] P. Iverson, Anna Yensen [Jensen] and child, J. C. Christiansen and family, Jorgen Andreasen and family.



Karen M. Peterson, Hamra Mattson, Pauline Augestsen, Anna M. Hanson, Karen Sarenson and family, Thomas P. Vad, P[eter]. C. and Frederika Mattsen [Madsen], Christer [Christen] and Else Yensen [Jensen], Lars Neilson and family, Peter A. Deline and family, Tilda A. Hansen, Asmund Waldermasen [Waldemarsen] and family, Dessa [Sissa] Fried [Frid] and child, Martin and Dorta Peterson, Karen and Eilen Onesdson, N[iels]. L. [Jensen] and Ellen C. Ogord [Aagard], C. and Ann Olson, B[ror]. Serensen [Sorensen] and family, Peter Swenson and family, Kresta [Kjersti] Abasen [Aagesan], Ole and Annie Peterson, Ole Hagg and family, Anna Peterson, Jacob Malmstron and family, Neila C. Heisel[t] and family, Hans J. Neilsen, Maren K. Christiansen and child, Sachareas [Zacarias] and Maria Andersen, P[eter]. A. Fielstad [Fjelsted], Elenor [or Helena] P. Kier, Louisa C. Neilsen, Yens C. J. Vaarden and family, Andreas Ink, Christen and Annie M. Andersen, Yena [Yens] Larson, Soren Neilsen, Nielsina D. Kissen, Maren Christensen.



Kiersten Peterson, Inger M. Christensen, Anna M. Anderson, Else Mattson, Sissa Peterson [Petersen], Hans J. Hanson and family, Neilsen C. Neilsen, Christen Olsen, Peter Monsen, Lars and Matta Hansons [Hanson], Catrena Olesen, Christen and Christina Jepperson, Sophia Olivia and Frederick Orsted, Rasmusine [Rasmine] Jepperson, [Jeppesen], Mads and Anna Forgenson [Jorgensen], Carolina H. Jacobson and child.



Christen Christoffersen, Rasmus Hanson and family, Maren Christensen, Soren Peterson and family, Christen Andersen and family, Anders and Andrea G. Yensen [Jensen], Christen [Christen] C. Yorjensen [Jorgensen, Kiersten Nielsen and family, Yens [Jens] Anderson and family, Lars C. Peterson, Matta [Mette] M. Larson, Neils Jacobson, Bold [Bodil] M. Hanson, Ole Oleson and family, Maren Yenson [Jensen] (aged 80), Marta Johansen, Chari August [Aagrist].



Sven Olesen [Olson] and family, Anders and Caroline Peterson, Neils P. Larsen and family, Johannes Andersen and family, Lars Moretsen [Mouritsen] and family, Lena Mariager, C[hristian]. J. Leondgren [Lundgreen], Peter Christoffaser [Christoffersen] and family, Anders Yensen and family, Harriet Mead, Maren Hansen, Christen and Caroline Lorensen, Maren Christensen and son, Matilde [Matilda] Sorensen.—Total, 372.



Yens [Jens] S. Dahl, aged 73, died August 1st.

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William Atkin, "Handcart Experience [Part 1]," Union (St. George, Utah

William Atkin, "Handcart Experience [Part 1]," Union (St. George, Utah, May 14, 1896.

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