. . . When my father, George Jacob Brox, and my mother, Wilhelmina Fredricka Hornberger, accepted the gospel in Germany, they decided to immigrate to America. I was two years of age at the time, being born 15 July 1888 and my brother Gustav three.

It took us three weeks to cross the ocean as my parents were poor we had to travel third class. Father told me later how ill I became taking convulsions on the ship. I remember his saying how much faith and prayer he exercised for me that I might live. By the time we reached Liverpool I had taken a change for the better.

On our arrival at Salt Lake City, my parents were assigned by and elder to go to Logan. We lived there just a short time then moved to Salt Lake. Father worked in the Tithing Office but could not speak English so a brother told him to go to Manti as they were in need of a jeweler there. . . . [p. 1]

BIB: Ripplinger, Elise Brox, Autobiography of Elise Brox Ripplinger (written in 1955) in private possession of Brooks Haderlie, p. 1, Typescript.
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