. . . I had sometime before loaned some money to Apostle Erastus Snow for travel from Denmark to Utah. It was some about 200 or $300 he got, which was promised to me again when I should emigrate. I had to leave mother, 2 brothers, 3 sisters, my wife had also to leave, mother, brother, sisters and some good old friends. Some feel sorry for us to have us leave them, but we was glad in the hope of the future. We went from home in peace and came to Copenhagen, where we had to be a few days until everything got ready for sailing. We started December 20th from [p.18] Copenhagen, and came to Kiel that evening, now on railroad to Altona. We sailed from Hamburg, the 24th and came to Hullon England, the 28th. But on those 4 days we had the hardest and most dangerous time on the whole long way we came. It looks like we should have been swallow up of the water but the hand of God was over us. Not a life was lost, but some part of the ship was broken. I was much sick and fasted in 3 days. We came to Hull in England the 28th. The next day we came on rails to Liverpool. On the 31st we came on a big sail ship which brought us to America. Jan. 1st 1853 was we pulled a little way out from the City. Here we lay still to the 16th. Here in this time we had singing and prayers and meetings and dancing; births, and deaths, and marriages. On the 16th we started for America. I was much seasick the first days [p.19] but when I got more used to circumstances I got well again. John E. Forsgreen was our president and leader on the whole journey. On the ship we had many different thing to meet, some pleasant and some not so very pleasant. Our food was not of the best kind and the water was so little and simple. Also on March 17 we came to the City of New Orleans. We stay here only a short time. Then we came on a steamship. There should take us to St. Louis, here we came on the 29th. Here we had to stay for a month. Now some of us went to work. I work on the grading of a new railroad a few days.

Now it came to pass on the 19th of April 1853 that my first child was born, a daughter. We named her Josephine Ephramine, but she died on the 30th and was buried the same day. Now on May 1st we started for Keokuk. The day after all our things was hauled about a mile [p.20] from the city, where we had to be until our oxen and wagons, and provisions was gathered. Now some got ready and started on the 18th, others the 21st of May. . . . [p.21]

. . . We reached Salt Lake City, here we came to September 30th. . . . [p.22]

BIB: Madsen, Peter. Autobiography (Ms 8214) pp. 18-22. (CHL)
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