Infant mortality was especially high for
British immigrants crossing the ocean. How many women experienced a child dying
while sailing to America?
a.
2 out of 3 women
b.
1 out of 2 women
c.
6 out of seven women
d.
3 out of 4 women
Yesterday’s
answer:
D)
Three heavenly visitants
Another ancestor, Laura
Peters of Ffestiniog, Wales, was not sure that the time had come for her family
to go to Zion but received an assurance from three heavenly messengers that it
was indeed time for her family to leave and that she would arrive safely. She
and her husband, David, and their two daughters took the seven-week journey
from Liverpool to New Orleans on the vessel Hartley. After they secured
clearance papers, they set off up the Mississippi for St. Louis in an American
steamboat. On that riverboat, passengers were attacked by cholera. Many bodies
were left buried along the riverbanks. Laura was very busy on the trip caring
for the sick and preparing the dead for burial until she too became infected
with the dread disease. Because of that heavenly assurance, she never lost
faith and knew she would be healed by the power of the Lord. She kept walking,
with help, to prevent herself from going to sleep; she had seen others die in
their sleep. Elder Lucius N. Scovil said in his journal, speaking of Laura
Peters's condition, that "through administration she was immediately
healed. The promise given to her by heavenly messengers was fulfilled."
—Lynne Watkins Jorgensen,
Accredited Genealogist
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