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[12. What was the place of your destination in Utah?]
12. Salt Lake City.

[11. When did you arrive there?]
11. Nov. 30, 1856.

[12. Who was the leader of your company or train?]
12. Edward Martin was the leader of the handcart company.

[13. Method of travel (handcart, ox team, mule team, horseback, etc.)]
13. Handcart.

Handcart questions

[4.Who came with you on the handcart company?]
4. My father and mother and six children started. Three died of hunger on the way.

[5. How did you pay for your journey from England to Salt Lake City?]
5. We had no money. We were brought over by the Perpetual Emigration Fund.

[8. What was your starting place?]
8. Florence, Nebraska. Left England in May and stopped a month in Florence while they made handcarts for us. We arrived in Salt Lake City Nov. 31 [30] 1856.

[9. When did you start?]
9. About June 30.

[10. Why were you so late arriving in Salt Lake City?]
10. Winter set in a month earlier than usual.

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21. There was a shortage of food because the handcarts couldn’t carry much food. The company counted on supplementing their supply at Fort Bridger and other points along the way and were disappointed.

[23. What was the reason for the disaster of the Martin Handcart Company?]
23. The unusually early winter was blamed.

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24. As soon as word of our plight was received President Brigham Young sent out a wagon train loaded with provisions to bring us in.

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25. About one third of the company died.

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26. When they were weakened by starvation they couldn’t stand the cold and froze to death.