• HOME
• PIONEER BOOKS
  • Tell My Story, Too - Digital
  • Follow Me To Zion - Ebook
• FINE ART
  • Martin Handcart Company
  • Willie Handcart Company
  • Hunt Wagon Company
  • Hodgett Wagon Company
  • Rescuers
  • Horses and Wagons
  • Wyoming Wildflowers
  • Joseph & Emma Smith
  • The Savior
  • Other Pioneers
  • Other
• PIONEER NAMES
  • Willie Handcart Company
  • Martin Handcart Company
  • Hodgett Wagon Company
  • Hunt Wagon Company
  • Rescuers
• BIOS
• BLOG
• CONTACT
• REGISTER

Fine Art: Willie Handcart Company

	Christina by Julie Rogers ...read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	Determination by Julie Rogers James Kirkwood (11) had a great responsibility to look after his younger brother, Joseph Smith Clements Kirkwood (5) in their immigration with the Willie Handcart Company in 1856. ...read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	First Rescue by Julie Rogers Emily Hill, age 20, and her sister, Julia, age 23, were members of the Willie Handcart Company. Faithful to the cause they espoused, the sisters' deeds were consistent with their beliefs. In traveling through Iowa, Emily and Julia were handed anonymous notes as inducements to stay there and not continue to Utah....read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	Let Us Pray by Julie Rogers "The captain said, 'Let us pray.' . . . He told the Lord our circumstances. He talked to God, as one man talks to another, and as if the Lord was very near. . . . Then the storm parted to the right and to the left!" ...read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	Most Anxious by Julie Rogers Eliza Chapman Gadd did not belong to the Church when she joined the Willie Handcart Company with her husband and eight children, but she wanted her family to remain together and followed the desires of her husband, Samuel, to emigrate from England to America in 1856....read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	Mother, Carry On by Julie Rogers Many of the children of the belated 1856 pioneer companies wrote of looking to their mothers' faith for the strength and courage to continue their trek under the most trying circumstances. Jane Haynes James was one of those mothers....read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	Our Journey Home by Julie Rogers Archibald McPhail emigrated from Scotland to America with his wife and two daughters in 1856. Their overland travel with the Willie Handcart Company also meant sharing a tent which housed about 20 fellow emigrants. ...read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	Reverence at Rock Creek by Julie Rogers Four children from the Willie Handcart Company died and are buried in a common grave at Rock Creek Hollow, near South Pass, Wyoming. They were children of faith, courage and service to others. This painting honors all these children who suffered so much in 1856....read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	Sacred Sacrifice by Julie Rogers Archibald McPhail emigrated from Scotland to America with his wife and two daughters in 1856. Their overland travel with the Willie Handcart Company also meant sharing a tent which housed about 20 fellow emigrants. ...read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	Sisters In Zion by Julie Rogers Emily and Julia Hill were 12 and 15 years old, respectively, when a cousin came to visit their prosperous home in England, sharing news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ restored to the earth in its purity. Julia was curious and Emily wanted to be baptized right away....read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	The Gathering - I by Julie Rogers When Niels O. Mortensen, Bodil's father, first heard Elder Erastus Snow preach the doctrine of gathering in Denmark, he told his children he always believed that he was one of the children of Israel being gathered to the mountains....read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	The Gathering - II by Julie Rogers When Niels O. Mortensen, Bodil's father, first heard Elder Erastus Snow preach the doctrine of gathering in Denmark, he told his children he always believed that he was one of the children of Israel being gathered to the mountains....read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	The Gathering - III by Julie Rogers When Niels O. Mortensen, Bodil's father, first heard Elder Erastus Snow preach the doctrine of gathering in Denmark, he told his children he always believed that he was one of the children of Israel being gathered to the mountains....read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	The Gathering - IV by Julie Rogers When Niels O. Mortensen, Bodil's father, first heard Elder Erastus Snow preach the doctrine of gathering in Denmark, he told his children he always believed that he was one of the children of Israel being gathered to the mountains....read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	The Gathering - V by Julie Rogers When Niels O. Mortensen, Bodil's father, first heard Elder Erastus Snow preach the doctrine of gathering in Denmark, he told his children he always believed that he was one of the children of Israel being gathered to the mountains....read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	The Light That Comprehendeth by Julie Rogers Archibald McPhail emigrated from Scotland to America with his wife and two daughters in 1856. Their overland travel with the Willie Handcart Company also meant sharing a tent which housed about 20 fellow emigrants....read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	The Steps We Have Taken by Julie Rogers Mary Hurren left England at the age of seven, accompanied by her grandfather, David Reeder; his children, Caroline and Robert Reeder; her parents, James and Eliza Reeder Hurren; and two little sisters, Emma and Sarah....read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	Unsung by Julie Rogers Ole Madsen boarded the ship Thornton in Liverpool in May of 1856. He had brought his family from Denmark, intent on immigrating to their promised land and Zion in the Rocky Mountains of Utah. His wife, three daughters and one son would survive because of his sacrifices. Ole would not....read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	Veil Crossing by Julie Rogers On the morning of October 19, 1856, the widow Ann Jewell Rowley continued her journey from the 5th crossing of the Sweetwater with her six living children and a broken heart. The oldest Rowley daughter, 33-year-old Eliza, had just been buried. Eliza had never been very strong and the shortened rations of the last two weeks had finally taken their toll. ...read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

	Wolves by Julie Rogers The majority of the records of the pioneers record the difficulty of the wolves following their camps, hungry for the dying cattle and ever ready to exhume the shallow graves of their people. Even so, out of reverence and respect for the dead, shawls, linens and other coveted items were donated for burial coverings. ...read more	Julie Rogers Paintings

All content & copy; 2018 Tell My Story Publishing. All rights reserved.