General Notes

 As a child Joseph traveled with his mother, and possibly his aunt, from Denmark to America and then probably on a Pushcart Expedition, to Utah. Given the probable date of 1857 and the fact that only the expeditions for 1857-8 are missing people's names and their names do not appear on any other lists, it seems probable that they were on the one arriving in 1857. Also, the marriage of his mother in 1858 in Utah seems to add to the theory. If so, the expedition, while certainly arduous, was fortunate to have the U.S. Army traveling a parallel route to Utah at the same time for the Army donated an ox which had been crippled by a wagon wheel to the hungry travelers. In the journal of this expedition, the second offering of food, from a fellow journeyer, was not so welcome for this fellow was somewhat aged, required a cane and had lost his sense of smell. Spying a small, apparently edible creature on the prairie, he cornered it and lambasted it with his cane  until it was dead. Then he threw the small. black and white, striped animal over his shoulder and headed back to the cart train, there to be repelled by his otherwise congenial fellow travelers. (See Notes for Helsienne Hjetting, the information for whom confirms this theory)

In the 1900 Census, he is shown as being 45 years of age, a widower with three children at home, Winne who is 16 and does not attend school, Phosa who is 14 and attends school, and Fritz who is 12 and attends school. The Month on birth for each of the children is different from what I have. The Census shows Winnie as Nov. 1883, Phosa Nov. 1885, and Fritz as October 1887.

The Census also shows Joseph as having been out of the work for the previous 6 months. Joseph's obituary (12 February 1917 in the Salt Lake City Tribune) states that he was a carpenter and a member of the Masons.

Where were the other children, gone from home? Who was Phosa?