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Show there, hoping she could establish contact with her parents. A friend of her father read the ad and said, "I believe this could be Krause's lost daughter." Johnn Krause and his oldest daughter, Augusta, soon left for Salt Lake City although no address had been printed in the ad. After reaching Utah and finding rooms, they stood on the corner of the Deseret News Building (Hotel Utah site) and inquired of passersby for information. It may not have occurred to Johnn to make inquiry at church headquarters for help in locating his lost child through existing church records. His stubbornness of past years persisted-and embittered as he was, he may also have wanted to avoid a confrontation and chose to search in his own way. Each day for one week he and his daughter stood at the same location for it appeared to be the busiest corner in town and the chances of talking to someone who knew the whereabouts of Wilhelmina were best on that site. But time and talk brought no results within that week; and almost to the point of giving up they decided to try for just one more day, and on that day they met a man from Sanpete County. He knew the Madsens and the Frandsens, and directed Johnn to send a telegram to his daughter, Wilhelmina, telling her to meet them at the railroad depot in Moroni (a branch line via Nephi) . After being separated for thirty-three years, Wilhelmina's reunion with her father and sister was a joyous one, even though she was shocked by the information they 45 |
