. . . We sailed on the steamship Nevada in the spring of 1883. I was so very sick all the way across the ocean. They vaccinated us and my arm was so sore from that. Our baby was just a little over a year old when we came here. We landed in New York and took a train from there direct to Ogden. It was a mixed passenger and freight train and somewhere along the way the engine and freight cars which preceded the passenger cars went over an embankment. [p.1] It seemed like a miracle because the two cars of Mormon emigrants stayed on the track. I was eating breakfast and had a cup of tea in my hand when it happened and outside of being jolted so that the tea spilled that was all that it bothered me.
We arrived in Ogden on June 2, 1883 and mother was down to the train to meet us. As near as I remember we got off the train at 28th street and there were nothing but sloughs there. Ogden was then called Ogden City and I expected to really se a city. I asked mother where the city was and she said that was it and that she knew that was what I would ask. I was quite surprised and disappointed not to find nothing more here. . . . [p.2]
BIB: Smith, Alice Bateman, [Autobiographical Sketch], "Utah Pioneer Biographies vol. 26, pp. 1-2. (FHL)
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