Anne Eliza Crabbe

Anne (Annie) Crabbe is the first child born to Eliza Jane Grice and William Henry Crabbe from Cheshire, England. The family immigrated to America and were in New York when Anne was born. A year-and-a-half later, they

traveled to Nebraska to join the Ansil P. Harmon Company. Along with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they began their journey to Salt Lake Valley (Utah).

According to the journal of William Ajax, it records that when the company was in Wyoming, the roads were very bad and the oxen kept too near to the creek. The embankment was very steep and about 30 feet high, which caused the wagon to tip into the creek. Anne Elizabeth, 18-months-old, drowned and was buried in Wyoming along the Mormon trail.

“Emma [Ajax], sister [Eliza] Crabbe, Catherine [Caroline] Winter, Anne Crabbe, and Eliza and Harriet Le Clarcq [Le Clercq], were in it at the time, and were all taken down with it. Sister Winter and Harriet LeClarq [Le Clercq} (the daughter of sister Jane Le Clarcq [Le Clercq}, about 2 years old) received scarcely any injury. Eliza LeClarcq [Le Clercq] (a young girl about 7 years old, and the daughter of sister Jane LeClarcq [Le Clercq], Jersey) and Anne Crabbe (the daughter of bro. Wm. Crabbe, Cheshire, England, and about 18 months old) were drowned, and sister Crabbe, the mother of the latter, was very near being drowned.”