Ola, Ole, Sissa--Records from Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
[The following is from the LDS Church History website. Note that Ola, Ole, Sissa and another Sissa are listed as Larson. We know they crossed the Atlantic on the Emerald Isle and came on this wagon train, so they are our relatives. There is an Anders Larsen listed, but no information about him other than that he is a returned missionary, so he is a mystery man. The pioneer information also states that Ola was accompanied by his wife and 4 children.]
John G. Holman Company (1868)
Departure: 1 September 1868
Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 25 September 1868
Company Information: About 650 individuals and 62 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Benton, Wyoming.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Company: John G. Holman Company (1868)
Narrative: Holman's ox train of 62 wagons left the rail terminus at Benton, Wyoming, on September 1 with 628 emigrants. Benton was located 11 miles east of present-day Rawlins, Wyoming. This end-of-track town was in existence for only three months, but during its brief history more than 100 people were reported to have died there in gunfights. The company was delayed in Benton when a woman in their company was arrested on a trumped-up charge and they had to wait for her trial. U.S. soldiers had to protect the company when an enraged mob from the railroad town marched on the wagon company. The mob had been angered by false rumors to the effect that the Mormons were intent on taking a woman to Utah against her will.
Most of those who traveled to Utah in Holman's company crossed the Atlantic aboard the ship Emerald Isle. Many in this company were Danes and Swedes who suffered much sickness while crossing the ocean and after landing in New York. Also traveling with the company were 8 independent wagons with about 40 passengers. After getting off the train and being loaded into the Church wagons, this company traveled in a northwesterly direction from Benton through Whiskey Gap and northward from there until they reached the Sweetwater River and the old emigrant road on September 8. As did many other companies in the 1860s, after coming through Echo Canyon they traveled to Silver Creek and then down Parley's Canyon into the valley. They arrived in Salt Lake on September 25. Twenty-two people died between Benton and Salt Lake.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Source: "Last Train In," Deseret Evening News, 25 Sept. 1868, 3.
Full Text: LAST TRAIN IN.— This morning Captain J. G. Holman's ox-train of 62 wagons got in, bringing a little over 600 passengers. He had with his train the immigrants that crossed the Atlantic in the Emerald Isle, a number of whom had to go into hospital on reaching New York, and among whom there had been much sickness on the sea voyage. Several were sick when they left the cars at Benton, but the mortality on the trip from that point was not high, considering these circumstances. The passengers are nearly all in excellent health now.
Accompanying his train were also six independent wagons, and some 50 persons not included in the 600 immigrants. He left Benton with his train on September 1st, and, consequently, made the trip in about twenty-four days, although there were several detentions on the way. This is the last immigrant train of the season.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Larson, Ola
Birth Date: 19 Jan. 1803
Death Date: 19 Sep. 1868
Gender: Male
Age: 65
Company: John G. Holman Company (1868)
Pioneer Information: with wife and 4 children Ancestral file surname "Lasson"
Sources: Ancestral File
Source Locations Mormon Immigration Index
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Larson, Ole, Jr.
Birth Date: 20 May 1854
Death Date: 5 Apr. 1938
Gender: Male
Age: 14
Company: John G. Holman Company (1868)
Pioneer Information: Ancestral file surname is "Lasson"
Sources: Ancestral File
Source Locations Mormon Immigration Index
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
???Larson, Sissa
Birth Date: 2 Mar. 1849
Death Date: Unknown
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Company: John G. Holman Company (1868)
Sources: Ancestral File
Source Locations Mormon Immigration Index
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Larson, Sisse (Ole’s mother)
Birth Date: 21 Mar. 1821
Death Date: 21 Jan. 1894
Gender: Female
Age: 47
Company: John G. Holman Company (1868)
Source Locations Deseret Evening News, 22 Sep. 1868, p. 4
Source Locations Mormon Immigration Index
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Larsen, Anders [I don’t know if this Anders is related to our Ole Lasson, but he could be a missing piece. The pioneer information states he was a returning missionary, but the spelling of Larsen is different than Ole’s Larson and nothing else is given about him on the pioneer record.]
Birth Date: Unknown
Death Date: Unknown
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Company: John G. Holman Company (1868)
Pioneer Information: returning missionary
If you have valid information regarding this pioneer, we invite you to share that with us [the LDS Church]. There are no sources listed for pioneer Larsen, Anders.
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