WE KNEW HIM Margery Smith was a 51-year-old widow from Dundee, Scotland, who was emigrating with five children, May (22), Jane (17), Mary (15), Betsey (13), and Alex(6); and a close friend of the family, Euphemia Mitchell (22). Margery’s oldest son, Robert Bain,...
VEIL CROSSING On the 19th of October, 1856, the first winter storms began for the Willie Handcart Company. It would be Eliza Rowley’s last day to walk, however, as she succumbed to the hardships near the Sixth Crossing of the Sweetwater River. She was spared the...
UNITED JAMES AND ELIZA HURREN In 1851, two missionaries came teaching the restored gospel to those in Suffolk, England. Among the first people to accept their messages was James Hurren, and his brother in law George Reeder Before long, David Reeder, father to George,...
TRUST IN GOD Marie Wilhelmina Catherine Krause (Madsen), known as “Mina,” was born to German parents, Johan and Anna Krause, who lived in Denmark and operated a wheelwright nail factory which had belonged to Anna’s first husband. Mina’s mother...
THEY REQUIRE MY ASSISTANCE From his efforts with the Mormon Battalion in 1846-47, to his missionary activities in Burma from 1853-55, to his faithful service in the Willie handcart company and to the end of his life, Levi Savage, Jr. was known for faithfulness in...
