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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:22 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:02 am
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Matin Handcart Company
That will tell you more details, but basically alot of Mormons crossed the plains using 'handcarts' they would do so in groups called 'companies'. But the Martin Handcart company is so historically well known because it was the one group that left too late, and was caught in the harsh winters and freezing temperatures of winter crossing the plains. So many horror stories of people's ancestors who froze or starved to death making the trek, for MY family, it was my great great grandfather, he was a child at the time, and he was 11, his younger sister was 6, and his older siblings were 13 and 16. The older two pushed the cart with the younger brother's occasional help, their parents were so sick that they would walk as far as they could before they collapsed, and wherever the children found their mother they would put her on the cart, and the father would tell them where to stop for the night. Until during the winter the father died. leaving their mom, my great great great grandmother, as a widow tending her four children.. crying
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:55 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:12 am
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:33 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:57 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:33 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:27 am
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:22 am
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:23 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:21 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:49 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:57 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:00 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:08 pm
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