1857-08-01-Isaac Wright

Autobiography of Margaret Miller Watson DeWitt

DeWitt, Margaret Watson, "Autobiography of Margaret Miller Watson DeWitt," Relief Society Magazine 16:7 (July 1929), pp. 380-81.

When we landed at New York the McKay girl's folks met us there. A large crowd was present as we were getting off the ship. I kept saying aloud, "O have you seen my sister?" I hadn't heard the popular song then being sung, entitled, "O Have You Seen My Sister?" At once some one in that great throng caught up the words and sang it while the whole merry crowd began singing and laughing.

I took the train from New York to Springfield, Massachusetts, where my sister met me. Words cannot express the joy of our meeting. I went with her to her home in Holyoke. There I remained with her and a group of emigrant girls. We worked in a factory, earning the money to pay our way to Utah. . . .