Karoline Berthe Larsen

Karoline Berthe Larsen is the seventh of eight children born to Knud Conrad Larsen and Berthe Catrina Tørjersdatter both of Norway. The parents were baptized as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1853. With a desire to immigrate to America to join other Saints in the Great Salt Lake Valley, they boarded the ship “Humbolt” and sailed into the New York Harbor.

After their arrival, they traveled to Wyoming, Nebraska and joined the Andrew H. Scott Company, leaving on August 8, 1866 for 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. Cholera, a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water, infected many of the travelers. According to company journals, many of the Saints grew ill and passed away. Somewhere near Wyoming, 1-year-old Karoline became ill and she passed away from undocumented reasons. She is buried somewhere along the Mormon Trail..