. . . My mother afterward wrote an account of the trip and I will quote at length from her account:

We left Liverpool on the sailing ship Horizon, May 22, 1856. There were 700 persons on board. It took until June 30th, six weeks, to get to Boston. On the way across the Atlantic there was a near panic on board one day when the sailors were working on the sails and an officer gave the order, "hoist higher." An excitable passenger thought the man had yelled, 'fire' and the passengers got panicky.

We reached Iowa City by train, July 8th. We had expected to find our handcarts all ready for us but instead we had to delay two or three weeks to make them. Instead of iron axles they were poorly constructed of wood. The boxes were of leather.

There were two companies organized containing 556 persons, 146 handcarts, seven wagons, six mules and horses, fifty milch cows and beef animals. There was one wagon with goods for the Latter-day Saint church at Salt Lake City. To each of the two companies was apportioned a mule team and two wagons hauled by oxen to carry tents, stores, etc.

On July 15th the company left Iowa City for Florence, Neb., 277 miles away. At Florence the two companies were consolidated. Edward Martin was made captain and Daniel Tyler his aide. On August 25th we broke camp. . . [p. 2]

. . . We reached Salt Lake, Sunday, November 30th. . . . [p. 7]

BIB: Jackson, Aaron [Autobiography], Utah Pioneer Biographies, vol. 15, pp. 2, 7 (FHL)
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