• He sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Thornton with his uncle and aunt, Paul and Lucy Jacobsen. Maren Sophia Jorgensen was also with them. The four of them are grouped together in Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 224.

  Paul, Maren, and Rasmus each died en route to Utah.

   

James G. Willie Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 16
• Died en Route

Sources

• "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
• James G. Willie Emigrating Company journal, 1856 May-November, 16-53.
• Marilyn Austin Smith, Faithful Stewards--the Life of James Gray Willie and Elizabeth Ann Pettit, 95-120.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 224.
• Rasmussen, Mette Mortensen, Reminiscences.