Sarah Emma Kartchner (1846-1934)

Mississippi Saints 1846 Pioneer Company
Numbered amoung the participants in the Mississippi Saints 1846 Pioneer Company, a early Mormon pioneer wagon train that left Mississippi in 1846 to join the Mormon exodus to Utah. This group Brigham Young's vanguard company and spent the winter of 1846/47 at  Fort Pueblo where the were joined by soldiers of the sick detachment of the Mormon Battalion. They reached Salt Lake City in late summer of 1847.

William Kartchner and his wife, escaped to St. Louis after being robbed of belongings, July 1845. The following year they joined this wagon company and tarted across plains (March 1846) with his wife several months pregnant. They arrived at Pueblo, Colorado and their first child, Sarah Emma, was born Aug 1846, and wintered there. Blacksmith at Bent's Fort, 1846. Ordered to meet Brigham Young Company at Ft. Laramie. Traveled three days behind pioneer company, entering Salt lake Valley July 27 or 28, 1847.