Barbara's Story
Birth: January 8th, 1861 | female | in Poplar, Middlesex, England
Death: August 8th, 1862 | 1 year old | near Wood River in Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 11 | right column
Barbara Grange Kidman is the second of 11 children born to William Kidman and Elizabeth Charlotte Horspool, both from England. The family immigrated to America in 1862 and traveled to Nebraska. There they joined an “unknown company” to journey to the Salt Lake Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. When the company was in Nebraska, 1-year-old Barbara passed away of unknown causes. She is buried along the Mormon Trail West near Wood River, Nebraska.