. . . Middle of November, 1853, we left Bornholm, myself, wife, daughter, my youngest sister, and wife's cousin Cecilia Christiane Jensen. We stopped in Copenhagen about one month.

December 22 or 23 , 1853, we left Copenhagen in a steamship for Kell, from there to Gluck State on railroad, in a steamship to Hull, England. Left Liverpool in ship Jesse Munn January 3, 1854, and came to New Orleans February 10th in a sailing ship. Stopping there a few days, then took a steamboat up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, but before coming to St. Louis, many took sick with cholera and died. Our daughter, Anne Christine, commenced being sick when in New Orleans and when yet on the Mississippi River, I took sick with cholera. One nearby said, "He will die." I was very sick, but the elders laid their hands on me. I did live, but before I got well, our girl died (she was blessed when a child) on March 7, 1854, on the Mississippi River, and was buried on land [p.3] in the forest. I was not able to follow her to the grave. I have thought if I had been sick at the time, I could have prayed to the Lord and she might have lived and I also nearly died. Thinking about what the Lord said, "I will take two of a family and one of a city and bring them to Zion." And inasmuch as we were only me, and my sister and her husband, I thought we would both live and come to Zion, and we did. It was through the mercy and power of God that we came.

We stopped St. Louis a month, having a good time there. Went on steamboat up Missouri River Kansas. Stopped there and around until late in June, 1854, started for Salt Lake City with ox team, 62 wagons, 4 oxen and two cows to each wagon and some extra wagon cows and horses. Arrived the 5th of October, 1854 in good health, spirit, and without any money. A cow, a wagon, a cooking stove, and a few other things. . . . [p.4]

BIB: Beck, Anders Diary, pp.3-4 donated by Betty Jo Ivie.
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