Eliza Ann Helena Michie

Eliza Ann Michie was the second child born to Robert Michie of Scotland and Frances Potts from England. The family emigrated to America and lived in Boston for four years. It was there that Eliza Ann was born.

With other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints they joined a company (records indicate that it was the Joseph Horne Company) to journey west to the Great Salt Lake Valley. Along the way near the Sweetwater (Wyoming), 1-year-old Eliza Ann grew ill with “black canker,” and died. She is buried somewhere by the Sweetwater River in Wyoming.

Her mother’s history records: “Without the proper food for small children, little Eliza Ann Helena became ill with black canker and died at Ice Spring on the Sweetwater [River, Wyoming]. Grandma washed her little white nightgown to dress her for burial and Grandpa cut up part of the wagon box to make a little casket, she was buried on the plains."