| Show 8o to Utah company In 1855 comprised they mostly left their homeland of young and Scandinavians joinedWhen they reached St Louis Sophia gave birth totiny daughter After long rest she felt ready to continue on to Utah As the wagon train traveled James played his violin in the evenings so the weary travelers might dance his singing waswelcome and reassuring sound during the daytrek His ailing wife loved music too but was unable to join in the dancing The long journey proved too much for her and she died just as the wagon train began its descent into the Salt lake valley When they reached Salt Lake City James purchased some land builthouse married the two Domgaard sisters Elizabeth and Johannah who had traveled to Utah in the same company babies was where who When news coming barrel and of had cared reached Jm traded flour This the Union Pacific for his Salt Lake his land plot of brief that Railroad and Johnson forspan ground is Army of mules believed and to be station Utah Historical Society building now stands After ailing wife stay in Goshen James with his two wives and several children moved on to Mount Pleasant having been called ment where by Brigham his Young musical to help abilities colonize were greatly the new needed Arriving in Mt Pleasant in March of 1859 James was to work on the north wall of the fort When the fo completed other James 1859 his Creek families life was not two-year-old the first moved to be into free daughter was child to drown its from settle appointed protection sorrow On drowned in Pl in the new town 13 May it They buried her tiny body ingrave just outside the fort west of State building Street across from the North Sanpete School later transferring it to the new Mount Pleasant cemetery south of town OnApril 18 young Swedish girl Johannah Anderson children High died James marriedFour of their ten in infancy September 12th 1865 President Brigham Young and visited by number Mount of the Pleasant apostles suitable and elders wagon drawn four fine horses was fitted up and driven by Basmus Frandsen and Andrew Madsen Mount Pleasant Brass Band where they met the party Moroni they led the taking the to Fountain Green Coming back by way of procession -40 and furnished the |
