. . . I was born December 2, 1847. In 1854 my father and mother came to America in a sailing vessel. We were about five weeks on the way. The voyage was pleasant except for a funeral when a little girl died and was buried at sea. The weighted corpse was slid over the side of the ship into the waves.

We lived in Philadelphia five years. Father earned a dollar an hour as a gold engraver. He had a good position in a jewelry store. His employer thought father was foolish to leave a good job and come out to Zion when there was nothing but sagebrush and hard work!

We came by ox team across the plains in 1859, enroute one ox got killed by Alkali so we had to hitch up our cow in place of the ox. . . .[p.133]

BIB: Petty, Julia Ann Wright, [Autobiography], "Utah Pioneer
Biographies," vol. 23, p. 133. (FHL)
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