Charles' Story
Birth: December 19th, 1862 | male | in Little Cowarne, Herefordshire, England
Death: August 23rd, 1866 | 3 years old | in Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 14 | right column
Charles Frederick Kelly is the son of Emma Price and Charles Kelly from England. Charles and Emma immigrated to America with their four children, sailing on the ship “St. Mark.” After arriving in America, they traveled by train to Nebraska where they joined the Andrew Hunter Scott Company. Along with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latte-day Saints, the company left on August 8, 1866 for the Great Salt Lake Valley.
Exhaustive travel, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. They were only on the trail two weeks when 3-year-old Charles became ill and died of undocumented causes. He is buried in Nebraska along the Mormon Trail West.
A family story recorded that the Kelly children had been “laid away in crude caskets and left to rest by the roadside.”