Abraham Barlow

Thomas Barlow and Ann Hulme, both from England, took their four children emigrate to America. In Pennsylvania, Ann gave birth to Abraham, their fifth child.

The family joined the Joseph Horne Company and began their journey on July 1 to travel across the plains to the Salt Lake Valley. As the company was traveling through the Wyoming Territory, Ann and Abraham became sick. On August 5, 1861, Abraham, only 6 weeks old, passed away. His mother Ann died two weeks later. They are both buried near Deer Creek in Wyoming, on the left hand side of the road.

One of the sons of Thomas and Ann wrote: “At Deer Creek station in Iowa my mother died from exposure, through washing clothes in cold water and caring for her sick baby who had died two weeks before and was buried by the wayside. His name was Abraham. The grief-stricken father with four small children continued on the journey. I was about ten, my sister Elizabeth and brothers George and Edward, younger.”