. . . We embarked on the ship Underwriter. There were five hundred ninety-four Saints. We had a very pleasant voyage although we had two gales and rough weather most of the time, but none of the Saints seemed to worry about it. We would sing and dance and have a good time. We were in the second cabin. We had a good choir and we all stayed together. We arrived in New York on the first of May. We were on board thirty days. We stayed two days at Castle Garden, went from there to Albany, through Chicago, Detroit, over Lake Ontario to Niagara Falls. The falls were a beautiful sight. We sailed up the Missouri to Florence. We stayed there for six weeks waiting for the company to get ready. . . . [p.104]

BIB: Little, Mary Elizabeth Tullidge, Our Pioneer Heritage Vol. 15 (1972) p. 104.
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