Alice's Story
Birth: June 6th, 1862 | female | in Woolwich, Kent, England
Death: September 3rd, 1863 | 1 year old | in Wyoming on the Mormon Trail
Memorial: Stone 12 | left column
Alice Jackson Graham is third of five children born to Frederick James Graham and Mary Ann Jackson, both from England. The family immigrated to America and traveled to Florence, Nebraska. There they joined the Thomas E. Ricks Company to journey to the Great Salt Lake Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Company left Nebraska on August 10, 1863.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. About three weeks into the trek, 1-year-old Alice contracted whooping cough. Her health continued to decline until she passed away. She is buried along the Mormon Trail approximately 100 miles east of Devil's Gate, Wyoming.