Amelia's Story
Birth: July 30th, 1851 | female | in Loon Fork, 114 miles west of Winter Quarters
Death: July 30th, 1851 | Infant | in Loon Fork, 114 miles west of Winter Quarters
Memorial: Stone 2
Amelia Lorinda Allred is the fifth of 14 children born to William Moore Allred of New York and Orissa Angela Bates of Tennessee. William and Orissa were married in Nauvoo in 1842.
With other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the family joined the James W. Cummings Company of 1851 to trek west to the Great Salt Lake Valley. Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers.
While west of Winter Quarters, Orissa gave birth to their baby, Amelia, who lived a few hours and died the same day. They buried their baby along the Mormon Trail.
From the journal of Willliam Allred: “On the 30th of July my wife had a little girl, Second Daughter, still born [stillborn] on the Loop [Loup] Fork. Elder Pratt told us to name her so we called her Amelia Lorinda.”