Louis Garff. I was Born January 13th 1855 in Eskebjerg, Sjelland, Empt. Denmark. My parents names were Nils Jorgen Garff & Maria Jacobsen Garff. They joined with the church known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mar. 31 1855 and in [-] 1857 Emigrated with my 2 older brothers P. N. Garff & Christen Garff, also my sister Josephine Patrina and I to America. Sailed from Copenhagen on the great 1857 ship Westmoreland. After a dreadful and tedious voyage of six weeks on sea, landed at New York. My younger brother, Dicken [Decan] Westmoreland, was born on Atlantic Ocean. When arrived at Fort Laramie my sister died, shortly after my father died and was buried on the plains. The rest of our family barely escaped death, and arrived at the Great Salt lake City Sept. 18, 1857. The untold sufferings and hardships that we as a family and the company of Saints suffered during this long journey from Denmark would require more time and space then will ever e taken in this life, at least, much less in a space like this. [p. 58]

BIB: Garff, Louis. Reminiscences (Ms 1754), p. 58 (CHL)
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