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    WOOLSEY, Joseph Henry and Abigail Schaeffer

    When her daughter Agatha Ann Woolsey, the first wife of John D. Lee, introduced her to the Gospel, she embraced it whole heartedly, remaining faithful from her baptism 17 Jun 1838, in Vandalia, Fayette County, Illinois, until her death on the cold dreary plains of Wyoming, just before “Rocky Ridge” on the way to the summit of the Rockies.
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      WOOLSEY, Abigail Shaeffer

      John D. Lee had been ill with a heavy fever, probably the 'rocky mountain fever' and he was just starting to mend when Abigail, "Momma", came down with that same "rocky mountain fever", and soon went into a coma. Lee called for a stop here on the Sweetwater, where her family gathered around her and her daughters desperately tried to care for her. But to no avail. Abigail opened her eyes, looked lovingly on her worried, sad family and then died around midnight on the third of September 1848.
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        THOMSON Jr., Moses

        Combined with the guarding that was surely required of Moses, we also learn from George Thomson’s biography that “Moses pushed and pulled on a handcart with a sick man in it for many days. Their rations got slimmer . . . When they got to the Sweetwater [River] near Devil’s Gate, Moses died with seven others the same night. . . . they were buried in shallow graves and covered with snow. This tragedy was a terrible blow to George and he did not get over it for years.”
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