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Burial Information: Clark, Louisa Mellor

Birth: 3/23/1840
Death: 12/25/1915
Burial: 12//1915
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Grave Location: Santaquin City Cemetery, LOT 010B BLOCK 0000A GRV #5WT
Source: Sexton / Grant
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From Mormon Handcart Companies www.handcart.com

The first snowstorm left about two feet of snow on the ground, and we began to feel very nervous. We had to wade through more streams, and sometimes up to our waists, and when we got through our clothes would freeze on us until a great many gave up and many died, mostly old people. At last the snow got to be four and five feet deep and often we had to shovel a road before we could move. Thus our traveling was very slow and our provisions nearly gave out.
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