"One day...[our son John]...started in the morning to walk with the aged and the sick, but we had not gone far on our journey when we found him lying on the roadside unable to go any further. I picked him up and put him on my back and drawed my cart as well as I could, but could not manage far so I put him in the cart with children and baggage, my failing husband, besides our regular load."
Elizabeth Sermon (1892 letter to her children)
Elizabeth Whitear Sermon, aged 37, was a member of the Martin handcart company which consisted of 575 souls, 145 handcarts and 8 wagons.
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