The company left Copenhagen, Dec. 26, 1853. There was a great many people to see us off. When a little distance from the land we all sang. We were delayed a great many times on the way. It was a sailing vessel called Benjamin Adams. I was married on this steamer with some of the others. The Saints were divided into wards. We held prayer and meeting every day on our journey. It was not all pleasure as we had sickness and many deaths. This is near the last of March and we have had 36 deaths all being buried in the sea. We reached St. Louis on the 3 of April. Here we met another company of emigrants who had left before us. My sister Nora Elizabeth was among these. She also had married on the way a man by the name of Anders Bertleson. Many more of the Saints died and many were sick.
On the 9th of May the company was ready to cross the plains. There were sixty wagons, which we made into companies, each company having a captain. I was one of the captains. Ten wagons to a company. . . . [p.3]
On the 5th the other wagons drove up and we continued this day, the 5th of October to the city. [MEANING, Salt Lake City] We camped on the then called 17th Ward square where is now the City High School grounds and our journey was at an end. . . . [p.4]
BIB: Winberg, Anders Wilhem. Reminiscences (Ms 1513 2-3) (Typescript),fd. 3, pp. 3-4. (CHL)
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