Ida Charlotte Johnson

Ida's Story

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Ida's Story

researched by Penny Magnusson Hannum

Birth:  October 29th, 1859   |   female   |   in Alingsus, Alvsborg, Sweden

Death:  June 23rd, 1863   |   3 years old   |   on the trail West

Memorial:   Stone 12   |   left column

Ida Charlotte Johnson is the third of five children born to Andreas Jonasson and Anna Cajsa Andreasdotter, both from Sweden. Her parents were married in Sweden in 1849. The family immigrated to America and joined an unknown 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. Ida, 4-years-old, passed away somewhere along the trail of unknown causes. She was buried somewhere along the trail.

submitted by The Daughters of Utah Pioneers and Days of ‘47