Johanna's Story
Birth: February 26th, 1857 | female | in Skallsjö, Älvsborg, Sweden
Death: ?? ??, 1863 | 6 years old | Unknown Location
Memorial: Stone 12 | right column
Johanna Marie Hansson (Anderson) is the daughter of Pehr Hanson and Christina Johansdotter Härling, both from Sweden. After the Hanson's immigrated to America, they traveled to Florence, Nebraska and joined a company to trek to the Salt Lake Valley. The company left August 7, 1863.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Somewhere along the Mormon Trail, 7-year-old Johanna passed away of unknown causes. She is buried somewhere along the Mormon Trail west.