2008-06-29-Mormon Times-Larsen Family Celebrates History

Larsen Family Celebrates History

Mormon Times

29 June 2008

Larsen Family Celebrates History

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Neils and Hans Larsen joined the Church with their parents in the mid 1860s, and emmigrated to the US on June 1, 1866 on the ship "Cavour," a Norwegian bark. But sickness took a heavy toll in the family. Their mother and baby brother died from cholera on board the ship. On arrival on July 31, 1866, the family was put into quarantine on Ward's Island at the Emigrant Refugee Hospital, except for one brother, Peder, who traveled to Utah with the rest of the LDS saints on the Cavour. Their 5-year-old sister died in the hospital three days after they arrived, and their father died from typhoid fever a month later, on September 3rd, and was buried in the potter's field.

Eastern States Mission President William H. Miles took Neils and Hans in, and cared for them until they could be sent to Utah two years later. To keep them from being sent back to Denmark, he legally adopted the boys. They eventually reached Utah in 1868.