Elizabeth's Story
Birth: October 23rd, 1844 | female | in Chesterfield, Chesterfield Borough, Derbyshire, England
Death: July 24th, 1859 | 14 years old | near the fork of the North and South Platte Rivers in Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 9
Elizabeth Christina Allen is the sixth child born to Isaac Allen Sr., and Elizabeth Christiana Siddal Wright, from England. In 1855, when Elizabeth was 10-years-old, her mother and brothers and sisters immigrated to America, sailing “William Stetson.” Her father had sailed to America the year before. After arriving in America, they traveled west to Missouri where her father had a farm. The family lived there for 4 years.
With a desire to journey with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the family joined the Edward Stevenson Company in 1859, bound for the Great Salt Lake Valley.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. As the wagon company approached where the North and South Platte Rivers connected, 14-year-old Elizabeth passed away of unknown causes. She is buried on the Mormon Pioneer trail, near the fork of the two rivers, North and South Platte in Nebraska.