"...the water was deep and very cold and we was drifted out of the regular crossing and we came near beign drounded the water came up to our arm pits poor mother was standing on the bank screaming as we got near the bank. I heard mother say ... some of you men help my poor girls."
Patience Loader: last crossing of the Platte River; 1856
Patience Loader was a member of the Edward Martin Handcart Company. Click on the link below and you can enter a name to see which company in the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Company (1847 - 1868) that the person you are interested in might have travelled with. Here is the link: http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearch/1,15773,3966-1,00.html
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