Philinda Upson Standley from May Christensen

Received from May Christensen, age 93, on 15 Sep. 1990, contained in pages compiled by George Burton Standley, Nov 8, 1931:
Excerpts of a letter written to me in December, 1931 by great-aunt Lydia Standley Burnham, the daughter of Alexander Scoby Standley and Philinda Upson:
After leaving Nauvoo, my parents went to Punca (Indian Nation) Nebraska where I was born Dec 13, 1846. The cream of the male population were called to make up the Mormon Battallion, otherwise my parents along with others would have journeyed westward, but being instructed to make themselves as comfortable as possible for the winter, they constructed houses or dugouts to dwell in. A house was provided for my mother prior to my birth December 13. She did not recover from confinement as she should have done, having had serious trouble with one of her legs, varicose veins or milk-leg, so called in all probability. Friends used to sympathize with my older sister, Ellen, for they predicted that mother would never walk again. When warm weather came, having been laid up since December, she was carried to a nearby river, called the Running Water, and baptized for her health. She walked out of the water herself. She lived many years, after that, spun hundreds of skeins of yarn, and was a hard working woman.