I was born in Denmark, third of Sep. 1859.

Parents names were Cristian Pedersen & Jensine Sorensen Pedersen. They received the gospel & emigrated left Denmark in May 1866 arrived in Salt Lake Sept. [-]. They left with 4 children; Bina aged 10 years, myself 6 years, Peder 4 & Ida one & half year. We were 8 weeks on the Atlantic Ocean. At the last the water we had to drink got so bad it was full of white wigglers.

The last day a steamship came out & brought us to land. A train then took us some distance & then, I think it was that we laid over for 8 days out in the open. It was awfully hot there. Father built a hut [p.1] with brush to shade us.

I remember I got so sunburnt I peeled the skin of my arms. I think we were waiting for the ox teams to arrive & take us across the plains. . . . [p.2]

. . . Sister Bina died just 8 days before we reached Salt Lake. Oh just think, three children buried in little shallow graves with just a piece of a sheet wrapped around them by the wayside. When we arrived in Salt Lake mother was so worn out with sorrow waiting on the sick children, & sitting in the wagon that she was all bent, could not straighten. People said she looked like 60 years old. . . . [p.4]

BIB: Hansen, Caroline Pedersen. Autobiography (Ms 4746), fd. 4, pp. 1-2, 4. (CHL)
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