Alfred's Story
Birth: ?? ??, 1854 | male | in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Death: ?? ??, 1855 | 1 year old | on the Mormon Trail
Memorial: Stone 5 | right column
Alfred Heber Kilbourn is one of three children born to William Thomas Kilbourne and Sophia Sharpe, both of England.
After immigrating to America, Sophia died in 1855. William and the children joined the Charles A. Harper Company to journey to the Great Salt Lake Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The party began their trek to Zion on July 25, 1855.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Cholera, a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water, was especially dangerous for the travelers. It is unknown why 1-year-old Alfred Heber died. He is buried somewhere on the Mormon Trail West.