It meant a lot to Mrs. Evans, a widow with seven children, to leave the home land, the house that she and her husband lived in for twenty five years, and the little graves of seven babies, but the spirit of gathering was there. So that on Sept. 6, 1871, they sailed from Liverpool, on the steamship Nevada. There were 263 other Saints under the direction of John L. Hart. The journey was a pleasant one, at night there was dancing on deck, singing and all kinds of games. As they left the ship at New York 18 days later one of Elizabeth's brothers waved his hand and in his native tongue said, "Well good-bye little Nevada, you have brought us safely over the sea." They boarded the train. . . . [p.1]

BIB: Spackman, Elizabeth Ann Evans, Biography of, (Special Collections & Manuscripts, Mss 274), p. 1. (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah).
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