I crossed the ocean on the ship Caroline with the company in charge of Samuel S. Hill. I traveled with a family by the name of Payne. Mr. Payne was a shoemaker and was a friend of my father. A young man, an apprentice of Brother [p.433] Payne's, traveled with us. We were on the ocean six weeks. It was a very rough trip, so rough at one time that everyone was ordered below. The old vessel sprung a leak. Six of our company died on the ocean and were buried at sea. We sailed from the London docks to New York, taking mail from there to Missouri where we had to wait for the immigrant train sent by the church to meet us.

. . . We reached Coalville, came down Parley's Canyon, over to Emigration and on into the Valley, going directly to the tithing office grounds where all immigrant trains stopped. There I found my mother and brother waiting for me. It was a grand reunion. They were staying at my sister's in the 15th Ward. It was peach time and I thought I would make myself ill from eating so many of them. . . . [p.434]

BIB: Ramsey, John [Autobiography], Our Pioneer Heritage, comp. by Kate B. Carter, vol. 9 (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1966), pp. 433-434. (CHL)
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