Alexander's Story
Birth: December ??, 1850 | male | in Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Death: November ??, 1856 | 5 years old | on the Plains in Wyoming
Memorial: Stone 6 | left column
Alexander Kirkpatrick is one of two children born to Alexander Kirkpatrick from Scotland and Elizabeth Grant Ramsey born in England. The family immigrated from Scotland to America and then joined the joined the James G. Willie Company to travel to the Salt Lake Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. The Company left late in the year and as a result, they were unprepared for extreme cold weather and limited food. Alexander, 6-year-old, was among the many who passed away from the cold and starvation. He is buried on the plains in Westen Wyoming.