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• Name	HANSEN, Lorenzo
  Birth	30 Sep 1867	Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
  Christening	5 Feb 1868	Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 Dec 1934	Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States
  Burial	8 Dec 1934	Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
  WAC	14 Jul 1937	LOGAN
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  Family	BECKSTEAD, Anah Deloures ,   b. 9 Apr 1879, Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United Statesd. 1 Jan 1960 (Age 80 years)  [3, 4]
  Marriage	22 May 1916	West Jordon, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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  HANS HANSEN (1835-1914) & ANNA HELENA JOHANNA MARRIAGER (1840-1895) Hans Hansen Thus far very little has been found by way of history for Hans Hansen. There is, of course, some information included in the history below for Anna Helena Mariager (Lena) his wife. We do find some information from the rosters on the ship that they both traveled on William Tapscott ship which list Hans as being 23 years old and a farm worker from the Trøstrup Korup branch and the origin of Fyn. He was assigned to travel with the Aarhus group. This means that Hans and his future wife traveled from Copenhagen Denmark to Salt Lake City together with between 355 and 700 other saints. Hans Hansen was born 15 July 1835 in Trostrup, Odense, Fyn, Denmark. As you can see on the map it is located in the center water filled country. Anna Helena Mariager Hansen (Newell Jennings Olsen Marternal grandmother) By Amy Welch Larsen In a little village called Vennebjerb, Sjealand, about four miles west of Hjorring Denmark on the sea shore, lived the village school master, Jorgen Mariager, with his lovely wife and children. Their home was a long building, with straw woven together like gunny sack thatched over the roof, with twelve windows on each end. One end was partitioned off for a school room, they had benches about the same as we had in the days when two students sat in each bench. From heat, they used a compressed brick that held the heat for hours, they didn’t have wood or oil as we do. As each child completed his schooling, they received a Book of Recommendation to show what he or she might be able to do, according to the judgment of the teacher. They went to school eleven months of the year. The twelfth month the city children were sent to the country to learn to help on the farms. Sometimes many children were sent to one farm. At meal time they would site at a long table without a cloth on it. It wasn’t as nice as we do now. Just a bowl and spoon for each one. Supper usually was cobbler milk with a piece of rye bread. The bread was made in long loaves, about two feet long and cut in pieces about four inches long. The farm produced mostly rye, hay, chickens, and cows. Jorgen (George) Mariager raised geese and goats. Here Anna Helena was born 23 Aug. 1840. She herded her father’s animals after school and while doing this she would do her own knitting, making her own stockings and other clothing. This applied to the men as well as the women. They wore wooden shoes. After listening to the Mormon Elders for some time, Anna Helena was baptized, on 2 Nov. 1857 and confirmed by Elder Madson. This caused much trouble in the family, the father being very bitter towards the Mormons. Trouble became so bad Anna had to leave home. As she was going out the door her father called to her saying, “Anna, I’d rather see you dead than see you leave this way.” Anna was nineteen and had completed her schooling enough so she could teach school. She stayed for a while with a family by the name of Christensen. Their farm was known as Nile Green. It seemed to have been the custom as well as the advice of the Elders that when it became necessary for one of the children to leave first, the oldest should come to Utah and prepare a place for the rest of the family, but in this instance the custom seemed to have been over-ruled, the second child Anna Helena was chosen for the work. On the migration sheets in Church records she is known as Lena Mariager. In June 1859 Anna left alone for America to seek a new home for her mother and other members of the family. (Anna is found as a passenger aboard the ship William Tapscott. This ship left 1 April 1859 from Copenhagen, Denmark, The William Tapscott left Liver Pool, England 11 April 1859 headed for New York. Anna (Lena) he was assigned to the group (or conference) of Vensyssel Conference. A more detail account is listed below ). She boarded a sailing vessel under the leadership of Robert F. Neslin, who was captain of the company. Sailing vessels traveled very slow. It stopped at Liverpool for more passengers and at New York six weeks later. Landing in America was quite a thrill and relief but everything was strange, she couldn’t talk to very many, and she worried about her dear folks. She had faith in God and the religious leaders, and as she wasn’t meeting anyone she had time to think of her mother and family. She left New York at once for Iowa, that she might be with the Saints on their great western trek to Utah. Wagon trains from Salt Lake were waiting for them when they reached Iowa. They left at once for Utah. There were 372 souls, 58 wagons drawn by ox teams, there were also many handcarts. Forty cattle died on the way. Advance arrangements had been made for the most of the company but not for Anna, she was an extra and had to hang on as best she could, helping with children, pushing handcarts, or walking alone, doing her share in helping all she could. Because of this condition she was forced to walk most of the way across the plains. Their company was known as the Third Handcart Company of June 1859 (Some confusion exists here. She is listed in the Robert F. Neslen Wagon Company (1859) but we think she was actually in the George Rowley Company (1859) handcart company. ARJ) . The days were hot and places of sand and desert made them tired, dirty and hungry. There were also many streams to cross and if not too deep those who were walking or able must wade across. The men and boys would often carry the women and girls across the streams. Anna, in a prankish way, would often seem fagged out to get the men to carry her, sometimes the carrier would stumble, perhaps in mid-stream and both would get a good dunking. This was done perhaps to add to the fun and merriment besides cooling them off. The Indians were very hostile in this time and the Saints were warned never to leave camp at any time. On one occasion Anna and a girlfriend disobeyed this order and went to the river for water. While stooping to fill their wooden pail, an arrow fired by an Indian struck a tree she was holding to while dipping the water. She was greatly frightened but unharmed. They ran back to camp without water, and received a good scolding from their captain. They were not molested anymore by the Indians. As was the custom of the migrant companies, the evenings were spent in singing and playing. The song they sang most was “Come, Come Ye Saints.” One particular evening after a hard days walk, Anna was sitting on a box crying because her feet were bleeding. They were so sore and chapped. A young man named Hans Hansen who was on guard noticed her distress and offered his sympathy and assistance. This resulted in a special feeling of friendship between the two and the granting of special favors through the rest of the journey. A few days before reaching the valley they found themselves without water, the people and animals suffered extreme exhaustion, because of heat and want of water. In the evening a heavy rain storm passed over leaving holes and shallow places filled with water. Pans and buckets were placed out to catch the water. By careful planning this water met their wants until they came to the rocky mountain streams. There were five deaths on the journey, one child, an elderly lady, a mother, a newborn baby and one man killed by stampeding cattle. The company arrived in Salt Lake City 5 Sept 1859, after four months of continuous walking. An average of twenty-five miles a day was made by this company. Anna had used her last handkerchief to wrap her sore feet in , so their condition might not be noticeable. People in the city were awaiting them and had a nice meal prepared. This they enjoyed very much. A special friendship between Anna and Hans became stronger, resulting in their marrying on 8 Jan. 1860, in Salt Lake City. They moved to Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah where they received home accommodations from Wilford Woodruff, who later became President of the Church. Anna and Hans both worked for him. Wilford Woodruff often commented on and enjoyed Anna’s hotcakes made from sour cream. Their first son Hans John was born in Bountiful 2 Oct 1860. Anna was worrying about her mother and family. She little knew they we having so much trouble. Her brother Lawrence was determined to go with the Mormon Elders. When he was ten the Elders held a meeting in the church house and school. They asked all that cared to listen to come. There was such a crowd they couldn’t get in the building. When the missionaries started to talk, the crowd started to riot, they told them they were going to baptize them. They threw buckets of water on them and many other things. After rushing outside, they started tearing their clothes off and beating them. Lawrence, having his pockets full of nice rocks he had gathered from the sea shore, used his flipper, striking one of the leaders on the head which knocked him out. They thought it was an act of God and soon left. Lawrence being honest, told his father what he had done. His father said, “Why did you do this?” He said, “Father, you always taught me to help the dog that was down.” Lawrence told his mother as soon as he was big enough he was going to follow the Elders to Utah. The mother decided she had better prepare herself and go with her children to Utah. She was worried about her daughter, wishing she could get to her. By this time the mother and three others joined the Church. One day she told her husband she wanted to go to see her folks at Gjot, twenty-eight miles from Hjorring and asked to go on a two week vacation. To this the husband consented, as most of her relatives lived there. They started on Monday in Apr. of 1860 with the mail coach from Hjorring to Aalborg, where they were baptized members of the L.D.S. church, between the hours of eleven and twelve am. By Elder J.A. Weiborg, on 23 Apr 1860. The mother Else (Elise) Madson Mariager had gotten passes for them at the mayors office at home, paying the head clerk $10 apiece for each child. On their passes they changed their names, Lawrences’ name was Jens Andersen, the others had also fictitious names. These names they used until they were safely on the Atlantic Ocean. According to genealogy records, Sern Alfred was baptized 3 Aug 1872. he was not with this runaway group, but two years later he passed away on 26 July 1874. Their father Jorgan Mariager died in the year 1889. The mother and children, Conradine Albertine, Naome, Dagmor, Aurora, and Lawrence sailed on the William Tascott, the same one that Anna sailed on the year before. It is sure that Sern Ablert did not come with this group, but came later and may have died in New York. Lawrence, although only twelve tried to keep a diary of their travels. They left Florence, Nebraska with the Nephi Johnson Company. Nephi Johnson was an appointed Captain by George Cannon, one of the twelve Apostles. They had not traveled far when the mother took very ill, she survived only one and a half days. She was buried about ten miles west of the little Horn River near some springs. There were a few cabins there. We placed a fence around the grave to prevent the cattle from running over it. This was a hard blow to them as their only support and dependence in the new land had been her. Brother Weiborg, the late president of the Danish Mission preached the funeral sermon, in which he related the mode in which the family had left their native land. This death took place in what is now Nebraska. We have never been able to locate the Little Horn River, there is an Elk Horn River just west of Omaha. The mother passed away in July 1860, no date is given. It may be that Lawrence, being so young and in a strange language got confused in trying to write the conditions, it would be very difficult under those trying conditions. They came under a fictitious name, if anyone knows what the mothers name was we would be glad to hunt it up in church records, the children came under the name of Aurora. They owned their own wagon and oxen, so they came on alone, arriving is Salt lake City on Sept 1860. Anna was still in bed with her first baby. When the brothers and sisters arrived, upon entering the room, Anna noticed her mother was not with them. When she asked no one could speak but looked at each other sadly. It was then she learned that her mother had died. It was God she must turn to now with so many to feed and care for. They were very faithful and prayerful and were able to manage nicely. The children soon found other places to live and work. Anna and Hans then moved to Brigham. Soon after this Pres. Brigham Young called them to settle in Cache Valley with his father Hans Jorgansen. They first lived in a dugout on the corner of first East and fourth North in Logan. Here their third son was born. Because of the dampness and unhealthy conditions, he died three weeks later. They were determined to find a better place to live, so they built a house on the corner of second North and first West. It was made of adobe and had an extra-large room with a fireplace. It was the third house in Logan to have shingles. While it was not built for this purpose, yet at different times the Wards in Logan held dances here with Hans’ permission. Two local men known as Fiddler Jensen and Chris Fiddler played for dances. While living here twins were born, the effects of which Anna suffered a stroke, from which she never fully recovered. Regardless of this condition she carried on bravely doing her duty as a wife and mother. At this time there was quite an inducement to go work on the railroad, which was being built through Brigham City on the westward to Promitory where the two construction companies met and drove the Golden Spike in 11 May 1869. Hans worked on the railroad in the winter with the other men. The winters were very cold and to keep warm in their tent he took their only coal stove from him home leaving his wife and seven children to get along with the fireplace. To add to their hardship one of them suffered an attack of typhoid fever. Anna made her own soap by putting ashes in a V shaped box, pouring water over this and using grit or lye, then boiling this with grease or tallow. In order to improve himself industrially Hans mortgaged his home and bought a saw-mill up Logan canyon. They lived at the saw-mill in the summer. He finally lost it by foreclosure. He operated the Temple Fork saw mill after the Church got the timber needed for the temple. They next built a home on the corner of Main and third North where the Firestone Service Station now stands. This home had seven rooms. He rented part of it to other people. There was quite a lot of wood being hauled from the mill to Logan and other surrounding settlements. Hans took a load of lumber to Ogden and exchanged it for two bed sheets, one of which Anna gave to a sick neighbor lady. Hans was one of Logan’s first policemen. Anna was one of their best choir members. Hans was caught and arrested with other men for polygamy, but was soon released. They had no bad habits. They neither drank coffee, tea, liquor or smoked. Hans donated to the Church very freely. One year he donated $55.00, eleven bushels of red wheat, an axe handle, six and a half pounds of leather and labor amounting to $37.00. Hans was a stern honest man trying to give plenty. For what he received, he expected a square deal. One time he traded a load of lumber for a horse. The man said the horse was supposed to be a good puller. It was not, in fact, it was very bocky. The load of lumber was to be good, with no knots, so Hans hired two men to drive all the knots out and then delivered it. The man was sore and complained about the knots. Hans said if you can find any knots I will give you a good load of lumber. In 1881 while working with his boys cutting trees, a log was rolling down the hill, struck a boulder, swinging it around and hit him, crushing his right leg. They took him to Logan in the lumber wagon. After three weeks of intense suffering, inflammation set in, necessitating its amputation. Dr. Grosbeck knew little of antiseptic or germ infection. He laid him on his kitchen table, cut away the bad flesh and sawed off the sharp edges of the bone, just below the knee. His half-brother administered the anesthesia which was very little. It wasn’t enough to put him off. They say people could hear him a block away. In time, he made a full recovery. He made a peg leg for himself, which he used very well. From then on, he was known as Peg Leg Hansen. The family moved to College Ward, where they engaged in farming and dairying. His house is still standing on his grandsons farm known as the Glen Hansen home. At one time he ran a saw mill in Logan Canyon. Anna’s health was so bad she remained at home, while the boys and girls who could be of any help helped at the dairy. He finally sold both the dairy and the saw mill and engaged in general farming. Anna became weak and at times became dizzy. During one of these weakened times she fell forward placing her hands on a hot stove. Before she could be helped, her hands were severely burned. As her hands healed, her fingers grew crooked. Because of this she lost nearly all the use of her fingers. She finally learned to manipulate her fingers enough to knit. This became her most important pastime. She spent her remaining days in knitting, not only for herself but for many others. She finally suffered another stroke from which she never recovered. She passed away 23 Mar. 1895. She is buried in Logan City Cemetery. She was the mother of fifteen children, two are still living. Mary Hansen Welch and Sarah Hansen Parkinson. Hans never married twice. He was happy with his refined and lovely wife. Hans never married twice. He was happy with his refined and lovely wife. The following are the names of her children: Hans John 20 Oct. 1860 James 15 Mar 1862 Joseph Albert 3 Jan 1864 Niels 18 Oct 1864 Erastus Snow 30 Nov 1865 Lorenzo 30 Sept 1867 Mary Christena 8 Oct 1869 Alice Helena 8 Oct 1869 Ephraim 14 Nov 1871 Emma Albertina 13 Jul 1873 Abraham 23 Jun 1875 Willard 4 Apr 1877 Sarah 25 Nov 1878 Caroline 7 Nov 1880 Hyrum Elias 20 Dec 1855 AURORA MARIAGER The following history is of Aurora Mariager who is a sister to Anna Helena Mariager. It is added to give more history of the Mariager family. Aurora Mariager born 5 Jan 1846-7. Vennebjorg, Hjorring, Denmark. Died 1 Feb. 1868 Brigham City, Utah (page 405) Mads Christen ancestors and descendants. Life sketch of Aurora Mariager Jensen by Daughter-in-law, Pamela H. Jensen. Aurora was born 5 Jan. 1847 at Vennebjorg, Hjorring, Denmark. She was the daughter of Jorgen Mariage and Elsie Madsen. Her father was a school teacher and a minister and Aurora was taught by her father. When the Mormon missionaries visited their town her mother accepted the gospel and with five of her children stole away to join the emigrants who were leaving for America. One son refused to join them and remained with his father, who refused to have anything to do with the Mormons, which occasioned the mother’s stealing away. Aurora was baptized 22 Apr 1860 and with her mother and family set sail from Liverpool, England on 11 May 1860. The sailing ship was “William Tapscott” and there were 731 souls on board the ship of whom 312 were Scandinavian. Asa Calkin was in charge of the company. During the long journey small pox made its appearance among the emigrants which caused a several day quarantine in the New York Harbor. They finally landed June 20 and continued their journey to Florence, Nebraska, where they arrived 1 July 1860. The same fall they arrived in Salt Lake City with the company of Nephi Johnson. This brave mother died on the plains en-route to Utah, leaving her five children to fend for themselves in a strange new land. Some of them were taken to Southern Utah Aurora went to Brigham City to live with the M.C. Jensen family. (The little town of Vennebjerg is about eight to ten miles from Bastholm, the place where Mads C. and Maren Jensen lived.) Aurora was just under fourteen years of age when she arrived in Utah. It is most likely that the two families had known each other in Denmark, at least Aurora knew about this family that had joined the Church in Bastholm and had come with the first company of Saints from Denmark. A little over a year later, Aurora married Mads Christian Jensen, as his fourth wife. She had her fifteenth birthday the previous month. Aurora suffered all the hardships incidental to pioneer life, and was always thoughtful and kind to her husbands other wives. She was of a cheerful disposition, having a smile for everyone. Her hair was black and her skin very fair. Her hair was black and her skin very fair. Her greatest trial and sorrow was her misfortune in not rearing her children, for all but one died in infancy or early childhood. (Her babies were premature). Her first child lived only seven weeks and her second son lived to ten months. Her thirds child, Hyrum S. was the only child to reach maturity. Five days before her twenty-first birthday she gave birth to twins. Her fourth son and her only daughter, they lived about two weeks. The little mother’s health was gone, her trials became unbearable and her young, tender body couldn’t hold up longer. Less than a month after her twenty-first birthday on Feb 1, 1868, her spirit went to the Master who gave it, there to join her sweet babies and loved ones. This document of AURORA MARIGER was written 2 Dec. 1921 Aurora married 26 Feb 1862 in the Salt Lake Endowment House (pg 405). The name Mariager is carried through 3 generations. Both Aurora’s paternal and maternal grandparents have the sir name of Mariager but her mother was sometimes called Elsie Madsen and sometimes Else Mariager. Aurora’s sir came has been given as Mariager and as Sorensen. Mariager, Anne Helene Johanne [or Lena] Company: Robert F. Neslen Company (1859) Pioneer Information: Her given name is "Lena" on Deseret News roster. The 1859 William Tapscott ship register lists her as a spinster. * * * * * 1 Apr 1859 - L.N. Hvidt Record of Ship and Trek from Andrew Jenson [From History of the Scandinavian Mission by Andrew Jenson, 1927, p.139-142] In January 1859 Carl Widerborg brought news from England that emigration to Utah, which because of the Utah War had been temporarily interrupted, could now be resumed. The saints would have the privilege of crossing the plains either with handcarts or ox-teams. Scandinaviens Stjerne of 1 Jan 1859 announced that the cost for each adult who intended to cross the plains with handcarts in 1859 would be about 150 rigsdaler ($75) and that those who expected to cross with oxen and wagons would need about 200 rigsdaler ($100), if eight persons were reckoned to each wagon. Those who expected to emigrate under those terms were advised to send their names, with ages, date and place of birth, occupation, etc., to their respective conference presidents, and at the same time, advance 40 rigsdaler ($20) for each handcart emigrant and 80 rigsdaler ($40) for each wagon emigrant. This money was to be sent to America in advance to purchase the necessary outfit for the journey across the plains, wuch as handcarts, wagons, oxen, provisions, etc. On Friday 1 Apr 1859, a company of Scandinavian Saints, consisting of 355 souls, namely 224 Danes, 113 Swedes, and 18 Norwegians, sailed from Copenhagen, Denmark on the steamer L.N. Hvidt in charge of Carl Widerborg and Niels Wilhelmsen. After a rather stormy voyage over the North Sea, the caompny reached Grimsby, England on the 6th. From Grimsby the emigrants continued the journey by rail the same day to Liverpool, where they, on the 7th, went on board the ship William Tapscott, Captain Bell, and were joined by British and Swiss emigrants. Elder Robert F. Neslen was appointed president of the company, with Henry H. Harris and George Rowley as counselors. Under them Elders Søren P. Guhl, Johan F. Klingbeck, Peter A. Fjeldsted, Anders Petersen, Lars Petersen, and Morten Petersen presided over the Scandinavians. Brothers Christian Jeppesen and Niels Jacobsen acted as interpreters and Hans O. Magleby and Anton Petersen as cooks. On Monday, 11 Apr 1859, the ship lifted anchor and was tugged out of the Mersey into the open sea with its precious cargo of 726 souls. Songs of joy resounded from all parts of the ship as it was pulled out to sea, but these were subsequently succeeded by a chorus of those who, during the first days of the voyage, yielded to the usual attack of sea-sickness, in which most of the passengers participated to a greater or less extent. After going through the process of government inspection, clearing, etc., Pres. Neslen, in connection with his counselors, proceeded to organize the company into ten wards, namely, five English and five Scandinavian, appointing a president over each to see to the faithful observance of cleanliness, good order, etc. The Scandinavian Saints occupied one side of the vessel and the British and Swiss the other. The company was blessed with a most pleasant and agreeable voyage, which lasted only 31 days. The health of the passengers was exceptionally good, which was demonstrated by the fact that only one death occurred on board, and that was an old Swedish sister by the name of Inger Olson Hagg, 61 years old, who had been afflicted upwards of four years previous to her embarkation. This single loss by death was counter-balanced by two births. In the matrimonial department the company did exceedingly well, as no less than nineteen marriages were solemnized on board; of these five couples were English, one Swiss, and thirteen Scandinavian. Every day during the voyage the people were called together for prayers morning and evening at 8 o'clock. On Sundays, three meetings were usually held on deck, and fellowship meetings in each ward two nights a week. The monotony of the voyage was also relieved with singing, instrumental music, dancing, games, etc., in which, as a matter of course, the young people took a prominent part, while the more sedate enjoyed themselves in witnessing and hearing the happy recreations. Elder Neslen writes that he felt it quite a task, when he was appointed to take charge of a company composed of people from so many countries, speaking nine different languages, and having different manners, customs, and peculiarities, and thrown together under such close circumstances; but through the faithfulness and diligence of the Saints, which was universally manifested, he soon found the load far easier than he had anticipated, and upon the arrival of the company in New York, it was pronounced by doctors and government officers to be the best disciplined and most agreeable company that ever arrived at that port. Arriving safely in New York harbor, the emigrants were landed in Castle Garden on Saturday 14 May. On the same day, in the evening, most of them continued the journey by steamboat up the Hudson River to Albany; whence they traveled by rail via Niagara, Windsor in Canada, Detroit in Michigan, and Quincy, Ill., to St. Joseph, Missouri, where they arrived on the 21st. In the afternoon of that day they boarded the steamboat St. Mary, which brought them up the Missouri River to Florence, Nebraska, where they arrived on the 25th in the morning. The whole route through the states was one which no former company of emigrating Saints had ever taken. Brother George Q. Cannon and those who assisted him in the emigration business that year, were quite successful in making arrangements for their transportation by rail direct to St. Joseph, instead of, as first contemplated, shipping them to Iowa City. On their arrival at Florence the Saints were organized into temporary districts and branches, with presiding officers over each, whose duty it was to look after the comfort and welfare of the people while encamped at or near that place. Prayer meetings were held regularly twice a week in most of the temporary branches. About fifty of the Saints who crossed the Atlantic in the William Tapscott stopped temporarily in New York and other parts of the United States. On the 1st of June the Scandinavian handcart emigrants were organized into three companies with Hans O. Magleby, Jens Jensen, and Mathias B. Nilsson as captains, and together with the English Saints they commenced their journey from Florence on the 9th of June. The whole company consisted of 235 souls with 60 handcarts, under the leadership of Capt. George Rowley. For each handcart there were from 4-6 persons, with 20 pounds of baggage and some provisions for each. Eight wagons hauled by oxen followed the handcarts with the rest of the provisions and were expected also to give the tired and sick an opportunity to ride in case of necessity. After a successful journey, the company reached Salt Lake City on Sunday, 4 Sep. As soon as it became known in the valley that the handcart company was approaching, thousands of the inhabitants of the city went out to meet them, and led by two bands of music, the brave wanderers marched through the streets of the city, which were filled with people, to Union Square, where they were greeted by the multitude and Apostle Ezra T. Benson gave a short speech of welcome. A bounteous supply of all kinds of food was brought the emigrants, agreeable to arrangements made by the bishops of the different wards in the city. The reception was very touching and full-hearted, and many tears of joy were seen trickling down the cheeks of the new arrivals and their friends who received them. The emigrants were soon settled and treated in a most hospitable and kind way by their relatives, friends, and acquaintances. An ox train, consisting of about 56 wagons, was organized at Florence with nearly 380 Scandinavian Saints, segregated into five divisions, for each of which a captain was appointed, while Robert F. Neslen was appointed captain of the whole. The five captains of ten were George D. Keaton, C. Kidgell, Søren P. Guhl, Lars Nilsson, and Christian Jeppesen. The company left Florence 26 Jun 1859 and arrived after a successful journey, in Salt Lake City, 15 Sep. Six deaths and three births took place on the journey and 24 of the animals died en route by sickness and poisoning. Among the brethren who died was Peter A. Fjeldsted who prior to emigrating had presided over the Vendsyssel Conference. * * * * * The following excerpt is taken from the journal of another traveler on an 1859 voyage of the William Tapscott and is recorded to give an idea of the type of circumstances surrounding a voyage of this type. From the Journal of Samuel Savior.... The William Tapscott is a 1525 ton, 195 foot long vessel built in 1852. After boarding the ship, the saints spent most of the next day on the ship, although some of them went ashore to do some shopping. Instructions were given to the company to be bed by 9:00 or 10:00pm and a guard was appointed to watch the sailors to see that they did not infringe on the rights of the passengers. They were not to go on the poop deck or bother the sailors while on duty. Prayers were to be said at 8 o'clock in the morning and again at 8 o'clock in the evening. The ship was divided into ten wards. The saints were promised that, if they were obedient to the brethren, they would be blessed and prosper in their journey. Each passenger was allotted the following provisions for the 5 week journey:1 pound of pork per adult - 1 pound of flour - 5 1/2 pounds of biscuits and oatmeal - 1 pound of baly (barley?) - 1/2 pounds of rice - 1/2 pounds of peas - 2 pounds of potatoes - 1/2 ounce of mustard - 1 pound of sugar - 1/2 ounce of pepper - 2 ounces of sugar - 1 gill of vinegar - 2 ounces of tea - 2 ounces of salt - 3 quarts of water daily, received in the morning The ship was towed out to sea and many of the saints became sick after leaving port. Once out to sea, the ocean was a new problem. Samuel reports, "This morning I am sitting on the poop deck and am struck with awe and admiration at the sublime scene which is before me to see the furious waves of the ocean rolling up into mountains and then lashing themselves at one another. The scenery is truly grand and is worthy of all the praise we can bestow...It has the appearance of hills covered with snow and the wind drifting it about from one place to another." He added that he didn't know whether to pray for wind to get there faster or for calm so they wouldn't be so sick. On their arrival to New York , they were checked for disease, and spent a full day looking for their luggage. It was then typical to take a steamer up the Hudson River to Albany. During the next few days, they saw Niagara Falls, after crossing a suspension bridge into Canada. They then went to Windsor and crossed over to Detroit, They left by railway for Chicago, arriving the next morning. From Chicago they boarded a first class carriage to Quincy and then took another steamer and moved up the Mississippi to Hannibal, Missouri. From there left went by rail to St. Joseph, Missouri. From St. Joseph they took another steamer to Florence, Nebraska. On board the steamer a guard was posted due to the rough customers. Many were sick due to spoiled food and warm weather. Landing in Florence, it began to rain, so they pitched tents for the women. When the rain turned to hail, all were soaked. The next day all those going by handcarts met and a fee was levied for their provisions. They spent the next few days fixing up their handcars. They put screws into the sides of the carts to hook the bows on and made covers for them. About 10 days later they were ready to travel. About one month had passed since they landed in New York City. Two pounds of bacon and one pound of sugar were dealt out for each two persons for one week. Although the water was excellent, they had to walk a long way to obtain fuel since they were traversing grasslands. In the evening they danced and then slept under their handcarts. The next day they climbed some steep hills and one of the provision wagons stuck in the mud. The mosquitoes were very numerous and all were bitten severely. They bathed in the river. Several Indians left when they saw that the men were armed. They traveled fifteen or sixteen miles a day. When it stormed, the handcarts were very hard to draw due to the muddy earth. Occasionally they caught fish for food. Lots of buffalo were seen along the trail. Rivers were crossed on ferries. After nearly three months of walking, they arrived in Salt Lake City.

  
  

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