• Margarethe traveled across the ocean via the ship James Nesmith, arriving in New Orleans on 23 February 1855. Emigration records indicate that she was 73 years old at the time of overseas travel. 

  The birth date listed is a christening date as taken from the parish register.

  She came on the trail with her step-son, Lars Peter Lund and his family.  

   

  She 

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

• Age at Departure: 74

Sources

• "2nd Company of 50 reports, 1855 May 31." In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1853-1855. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Fd. 37)
• Parish Register of Nylarskor, Bornholm, Denmark. 
• Saints By Sea: Latter-Day Saint Immigration to America