Inghram, now living at Scottsbluff, indicate that Jules' demise was at Bordeaux, (near Cold Springs) fifteen miles east of Fort Laramie. It would seem when Jules was killed that his friends did not correctly relate to the widow all the details of the tragedy; they probably thought to temper the grief and colored the story, or possibly, in the years that have followed, she has lost track of it, and her memory is not good. I believe Beckstead was the fourth husband of the little French bride of Jules Beni, and that would indicate her grief was not deep-seated, and that the buoyant blood of her race asserted itself in quick revival of spirits.

In the Mormon Hand Cart expedition was perhaps as tragic and heroic a case of fidelity to the religious fervor, as ever struck home to any part of the human race, and the women were no small part of it. From the Missouri river to Great Salt Lake, pushing all their personal effects and smaller children in hand carts, is something of an undertaking. Often one hears people, men and women, complaining of the dreariness and monotony of the trip in the Pullmans, and they chafe under the delay of a few hours because of a wreck, or heavy railroading. They suffer from the heat of the. summer or the cold of winter. If they could reconstruct that other expedition, where mothers put their babies into carts, with their meagre personal belongings, and pushed them on and on, over the hundreds and hundreds of miles of prairie, of sand, of sagebrush, up hill and down, fording streams and traveling long stretches without water under a superheated sun and burnished sky. they might have a conception of what sacrifice and suffering in travel really entailed. This expedition was in 1856, and just seventy-five per cent of those who started, reached the Mecca, and one-fourth died of the hardships and privations enroute.