Baby boy Ollerton

Baby boy Ollerton is the last of eight children born to Seth Ollerton and Jane Rogerson, both from England. The family immigrated from England to America on the ship “George B. McClellan.” After arriving in America, they traveled to Nebraska and joined the William S. Warren Company to go to the Salt Lake Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As the company traveled west, Jane was expecting a baby.

Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Jane had to walk and was getting weak from carrying one of their infant children. When the company was on the Banks of the Sweetwater in Wyoming, Jane gave birth to another son. She died in childbirth and the newborn son also passed away. They are buried on the banks of the Sweetwater in Wyoming together.