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….He [Joseph Thomas Lamborn] was so seriously burned that when the ox team and covered wagon train left Omaha, Nebraska a few days later, mother [Ellen Jane Bailey Lamborn] had to walk and carry him on her back because he could not stand the pain incurred by the jolting wagons. Thus we crossed the plains—with mother carrying her eight-year old child, and I walking by her side the greater part of the way. My second brother, Edwin, although just a small boy, drove two yoke of oxen to pay his fare.

When we arrived in Salt Lake City, in October, mother’s shoes were worn out and her feet were sore and bleeding from the endless days of walking.