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Cultural/Historical ContextLabel
“ Being so young when I crossed the plains, I have only a faint recollection of the journey. I know that my father and mother with three small children (the youngest only four months old), endured many hardships. My father with many others in our train were very sick with the cholera and many of them died. My mother was sick with the scurvy caused by having no vegetables and eating too much salt meat. At the same time my brother, sister, and myself with sister and brother were sick with the measles. I wonder we all lived through it. We were travelling [sic] all the time. I often think it was certainly owing to 'Pioneer Spirit' never to give up. ”
Jennie A. Cheney
arrived in 1849 from Missouri