Author: Stacy W. Kish
As a young woman, Martha Aston knew something wasn’t right.
Beyond the bone-grinding fatigue, she also could not catch her breath. During a routine medical check-up a few months later, her doctor paused while listening to her heart.
Martha did not realize it, but she was about to begin a long medical journey that would weave a genetic thread through space and time linking her to John Flemming Wakefield, her great, great, great, great grandfather who crossed the country as part of a caravan from Pennsylvania to Utah in the early-19thcentury.
Read more about Martha's story.