Ida's Story
Birth: June 25th, 1862 | female | in Huseby, Skatelöf, Kronoberg, Sweden
Death: July ??, 1863 | 1 year old | in Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 13 | right column
Ida Christine Peterson is the sixth of nine children born to Magnus Peterson and Ingrid Magnusdotter, both of Sweden.
The Peterson family immigrated from Sweden to America, and upon their arrival in America they traveled went to Nebraska and joined the William B. Preston Company. With other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Company left for the Great Salt Lake Valley on July 9 or 10, 1863.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. The Company had gone only five miles west of Florence when 10-month-old Ida passed away. She is buried at their first campsite, which was near a water spring of a rancher in Nebraska.