Agnes Christina Malcolm

Agnes Christina Malcolm was the second child born to David Malcolm and Agnes Lavina Brown from Scotland. The family immigrated to America with a desire to join other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in reaching the Great Salt Lake Valley. The family were members of the “Harmon Cutler Company” to journey west.

As they journeyed through Wyoming near Sweetwater, 7-year-old Agnes was sleeping in a wagon when it tipped over, She died of her injuries.

From a journal of the journey: “29th a girl seven years old was killed by a wagon upsetting and a large chest of tools falling on her.

From her mother’s history it is recorded: “Agnes was killed when the wagon in which she was sleeping tipped. The family story is that she smothered to death in a feather tick when the oxen pulling the wagon smelled water, bolted, and overturned the wagon. The wagon train was just outside Green River, Wyoming and her parents didn’t want to bury her on the plains so her body was sealed in a casket made by soldering [sauntering] two tin boxes together and they traveled day and night so she could be buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.”