Everine Lorena Jacobson

Everine Lorena Jacobson is the sixth of seven children born to Rasmus Erastus Jacobson and Iverine Engelbretsdatter, both of Norway. The Jacobson family immigrated to America on the ship “Antartic.” After arriving in America, they traveled to Nebraska to join the Peter Nebeker Company to journey to the Great Salt Lake Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. When the company was days East of Laramie, Wyoming, Iverine was handing baby Everine to her father, Rasmus. As she reached Everine out to him, the baby fell. The wagon rolled over her, severely injuring her. Because of her condition, the Jacobson family remained in Laramie, hoping Everine would improve.

Days later, the family joined the John W. Woolley Company to continue the journey west. As they traveled, Everine's condition grew more dire. Three days out of Laramie, 1-year-old Everine Lorena passed away. Their precious Everine was wrapped in cloth and buried that evening without a coffin, three miles above the telegraph station on the Sweetwater in Wyoming.