Charles Echo Stewart

Charles Echo Stewart is the sixth of seven children born to Charles Stewart and Sarah Ann Roberts, both of New York. Charles and Sarah were married in 1835 in New York. As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Stewart family joined the James C. Snow Company to journey West with other Saints to the Salt Lake Valley. Along the way, Sarah Ann gave birth to a baby named Charles Echo Stewart.

Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. According to a company journal dated October 1, 1852, the company did not travel because of a snowstorm. It was on that snowy day that baby Charles passed away.

According to the history of little Charles Stewart: “At Echo Canyon, Sarah gave birth to a son – Charles Echo, died 4 days later, brought body with them into the Salt Lake Valley and buried him in a cemetery.”