. . . We were associated with the Liverpool Branch until February, 1853, when we left for Salt Lake City, sailing on the ship Elvira Owen. We had three children living and one dead, two of the former being twin daughters, then about four months old. When about ten days out from Liverpool, I was taken down with the smallpox, having caught it from a child who brought it on board at starting and was in the next apartment of the ship. I was the first to discover it. Soon, however, five others were found to have the disease. A small house was built on deck and we were all quarantined. Thus my wife was left with her twin babes to care for, without my assistance, and this was no small task on ship-board. A few days later, in the evening about nine o'clock, Brother William Jones, a young man lying next to me, died, and in a short time the sailors took him out and cast him into the sea. As I lay there pondering over the situation. I heard the sailors say, "we will have him next," meaning me. I did not believe what they said. I had a living faith that I would recover and get to Zion. There were only five cases on board and only one death. [ANDREW JENSEN THEN ADDS THE FOLLOWING NOTE:]

Arriving at Keokuk, Iowa via New Orleans and St. Louis, Elder Winder, who had fully recovered his health, joined Joseph W. Young's company, and with his family crossed the plains, arriving at Salt Lake City on the 10th of October, 1853. . . . [p.244]

BIB: Jenson, Andrew, Comp., Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, vol. 1 (Salt Lake City: Western Epic, 1971). p. 244. [John R. Winder]
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