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Show Only a few months later the deadly cholera plague raged there, and Hansine Fredrikke, seven-year old daughter of the Krause couple succumbed to the disease on 19 July, 1855, less than four months after their arrival. And ten days later, Anna and her four-year-old Tora Marie, died of the same plague. Anna's treasured dream of gathering with the Saints faded with a definite finality-never to become a reality. Yet her great faith had paved the way for her daughter, Wilhelmina, to be among those whose names would be carved in Utah history. According to St. Louis history, death wagons made regular rounds in the city to collect all of the newly dead bodies. Then they were buried, many of them in mass graves. Later, the burial ground was given the name of Memorial Park-and has been beautifully preserved. Meanwhile, the eight-year-old Wilhelmina was unaware that tragedy had come to her family and was anticipating her journey to America, and the reunion with her loved ones. Just before Marie Frandsen (Anna's friend) was scheduled to sail, her brother tried to prevent her going. He had opposed her joining the Mormon Church and told the law officers she was stealing a child to take with her to America. The officers took Wilhelmina from Marie's custody and asked her some questions. She told them she wanted to go with her guardian to her parents in the United States, but they took her to an orphanage where her clothes and precious hymn book were taken away from her. She was dressed in a grey uniform 14 |
