David's Story
Birth: September 17th, 1858 | male | in Quincy, Franklin, Pennsylvania
Death: August 22nd, 1860 | 1 year old | by the Boarder of Utah and Wyoming
Memorial: Stone 9 | center column | 24th name
David Cannon Robison is the son of William Robison and Margaret Smith, both from Pennsylvania.
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Robison's traveled to Nebraska to join the Daniel Robison Company, bound for the Utah Territory. The Company left on June 26, 1860.
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 at the border of the Wyoming and Utah Territories, 1-year-old David became severely ill and died very quickly. Conflicting histories say he was buried in Wyoming or a place called Cache Cave in Summit County Utah.
From the journal of Hannah Barwell Saunders: “Only one death occurred during the trip, that of a child which died suddenly.”
From the Transcript from "Arrival of the First Handcart Company:"
“A child of two years of age, son of William Robinson, of Franklin Country, Pennsylvania, died a week ago, and was buried at Cache Cave.”