Mother was a widow and left four of her children in Denmark to come to Utah. I was the youngest so she brought me along. We crossed the ocean in the sailing vessel B.S. Kimball and were six weeks on the way. An epidemic of measles broke out and we buried fifty children at sea. We traveled from New York to Florence, Nebraska by railroad and were met there by wagons and ox teams from Utah. When we started westward across the plains I was so ill that I had to be carried most of the time. After I recovered I walked with my mother. It was a long and tedious trip, I can tell you [p.1].

BIB: Jensen, Matilda Dougard. Reminiscences, p. 1. (CHL)
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