Edwin's Story
Birth: July 21st, 1863 | male | in Derby, Derbyshire, England
Death: September 8th, 1864 | 1 year old | west of Platt Junction, by O'Fallon's Bluff in Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 13 | left column
Edwin Haynes is the seventh of eight children born to Anthony Haynes and Dinah Flinders, both of England. The Haynes family immigrated to America from England on the ship “Hudson.” Upon arriving in America, they traveled to Nebraska to join the William Hyde Company, bound for the Great Salt Lake Valley. Along with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the family departed from Nebraska on August 9, 1864.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. The company had been traveling for a month when 1-year-old Edwin Haynes passed away. He is buried along the Mormon Trail near O'Fallon's Bluff, Nebraska.
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