Ragna's Story
Birth: December 8th, 1849 | female | in Aker, Oslo, Akershus, Norway
Death: September 11th, 1866 | 16 years old | by Sweetwater, Wyoming
Memorial: Stone 14 | right column
Ragna is the daughter and first child of Ivar Isachsson and Ingeborg Elizabeth Olsen, both of Norway. Ragna’s mother passed away in Norway in 1854. Ragna, her sister, Karen, and their father boarded the ship “Kenilworth” to immigrate America. After they arrived in America, they traveled to Nebraska where they joined the Joseph S. Rawlings Company bound for the Utah Territory. The Company of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints departed on August 2, 1866.
Exhausting travel, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. While near the Sweetwater River in Wyoming, 16-year-old Ragna passed away of unspecified causes and buried along the Mormon Trail.
The Joseph S. Rawlings Company records: “Ragna Olivia Isachsson [Iversen], Sep. 11”.