• She came with Inger Johnson from Norway. On the ship passenger list she was listed as Helene Julie Pedersdatter.Her name is listed as "Hellena Julia" on her death certificate, and as "Julia Persen on her gravestone.

Jacob F. Secrist/Noah T. Guymon Company (1855)

• Age at Departure: 25

Sources

• 2nd Company of 50 reports, 1855 May 31.
• "Death of Mrs. Hess," Deseret News , 15 Sep. 1908, 5.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Johnson, Hans I. (Mrs.) [Inger K.], Autobiography [1909], 11-12.