Elizabeth Smith Holroyd

Elizabeth Holroyd was the ninth child born to Thomas Edward Holroyd and Dinah Williams, both from England. The family sailed from England to Pennsylvania. They remained there for more than two years because Thomas was ill and needed to get well to travel. It was there that Elizabeth was born.

The family traveled to Nebraska, but were late getting there and were advised to wait until the following year to journey to the Salt Lake Valley. Therefore, they spent the winter of 1860 in Nebraska. The following year, they joined the Joseph Horne Company to go west, leaving July 4, 1861.

When the company was about a week away from their journey's end, 2-year-old Elizabeth became sick and passed away near Fort Bridger, Wyoming. She is buried by the Muddy Creek along the Mormon Trail.

Thomas’ life story records: “his baby was very ill and within one week of arriving in Salt Lake City this baby died at the age of two years. My father walked back to fort Bridger, thirteen miles, to get a board which he carried on his shoulders. Mark Hall was the Sexton of the company and he made a little coffin, she was buried at Muddy Creek.”