Adelia Hart

Adelia Hart is the fifth child of eight children born to Elias Hart and Cornelia Staker, both from Canada. Elias and Cornelia were married in Canada in 1830. Adelia, born in Illinois.

With a desire to join other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Hart family joined the Warren Foote Company traveling west to the Salt Lake Valley. Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Poor water and wet conditions invited cholera to infect some of the Saints in the company. Adelia and her mother came down with the bacterial disease.

On July 2, 11-year-old Adelia passed away from the disease and is buried along the Mormon Trail near Kearney, Nebraska. Adelia's mother passed away less than a week later.

From the Warren Foote's company journal: “2nd Traveled sixteen miles. Had a pleasant day. One child of Sister Hart’s died today. I observed on our way today the graves of Bro. Sargant and son who left Kanesville in a company before we did. Bro. Snallham [Snalham] was driven into camp tonight very sick with the cholera. He was well in the morning.”

From the same journal a week later: “Like Adelia, her mother, Cornelia Staker Porter (1811-1850), died seven days later from Cholera. She is buried 8 miles west of Ft. Kearney, on the bank of the Plate River, Nebraska.”