Jacob Peter Kjar

Jacob Peter Kjar is one of six children born to Lars Christian Kjar and Mettie Maria Christensen, both from Denmark. When the family immigrated to America, Jacob was the youngest of four children. Once the family arrived in America, they joined the Jacob F. Secrist / Noah T. Guymon Company to journey with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Salt Lake Valley.

Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Records indicate that cholera, a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water, infected many members of the company. Jacob Peter, 1-years-old, died of undocumented causes and is buried along the Mormon Trail in Nebraska.