Clara's Story
Birth: August 13th, 1849 | female | in North East Village, New Haven, Connecticut
Death: June 23rd, 1854 | 4 years old | in Grasshopper Township, Atchison, Kansas
Memorial: Stone 4 | left column | 27th name
Clara’s parents were Newton Tuttle and Lucinda Susanna Mix of Connecticut. Lucinda passed away in Kansas while they were getting ready to join a company to come across the plains.
Newton took Clara, their only child, and joined the William Field Company to travel to Utah.
From Newton's journal:
“I was stricken with the bilious fever, I was sick a bought [about] 5 weeks. Clara’s health appeared to be as good as it ever was till the 15th of June when she was taken sick and died the 23. We started out the 19th of June to cross the plains with 44 wagons 250 head of cattle and about 2 hundred persons, the next day after Clara [Tuttle] died a man died with the cholera and the next day another man and child died with the same.”
Clara must have passed away from cholera.
Four year old Clara was buried in the township of Grasshopper Township, Atchison, Kansas, at the age of 4.