Path to Progress Educational Project

Patience crossed the country twice, lived through the history of the West from living through the Martin Handcart disaster, surviving, ironing at Camp Floyd, during the Civil War, and at mining towns, she worked in boarding houses. She is a one-woman history lesson.

Patience Loader was a survivor in every sense of the word. Patience, her mother, brothers, and sisters continued down the Mormon trail.

They were in the Martin Handcart Company of 1856. She was a legend in her own time for coming out of the handcart disaster unscathed. She stayed with friends first in SLC, then in Lehi. Brother John C. Naile (Neagle) and sister Naile had Patience live with them in their house in the town of Lehi. She married a soldier, Sgt. John Rozsa and they lived at Camp Floyd in 1858. At Camp Floyd, she ironed while John did the washing part of them sharing the job of a military laundress.

When the Civil War broke out, they went back east. Her husband survived the Civil War but got sick on the journey on the Overland Trail. He died and Patience came back with her four children to Pleasant Grove. She supported her family by cooking at two different miner’s boarding houses. Her journeys spanned almost the whole continent and her life was a bridge from the territorial period to Twentieth-Century Utah state history.

Now until 4:30 pm.

Today is the Grand Opening of the Path to Progress exhibit. Michelle Tucker, MA

The Path to Progress exhibit starts in 2 days with me there on Friday!