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Show Iowa City for six weeks before being outfitted for their westward trek. They were over three hundred miles north of St. Louis where Wilhelmina's father and surviving sisters and brother lived. With the existing means of communication and transportation no one would think of making contact with her family, had she even known where they were. So, the girl resumed her long and lonesome journey toward the west, secure in her hope of soon reaching Salt Lake where her parents would later meet her. She and the Madsens left Iowa City under the direction of William B. Hodgett's Oxteam Company on 30 July 1856. JOHNN'S ANXIETIES Johnn Krause surmised that his child might come through St. Louis in the custody of Marie Frandsen. With Anna (his wife) dead there was no need to wait longer for him to get his little girl as planned earlier, when she could be going right through St. Louis on her way to the west. He made it a point to regularly visit the campgrounds of the emigrants as they passed through the city. His efforts were unsuccessful of course. At times he saw a child's doll or an article that reminded him of one belonging to his child, and he suffered with the delusion that she was indeed there but was being hid-den from him. As a result Johnn grew more bitter toward the Church which he felt was responsible for his troubles, and he always 16 |