Elizabeth's Story
Birth: August 17th, 1859 | female | in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Death: September 16th, 1861 | 2 years old | at Muddy Creek at Fort Bridger, Wyoming
Memorial: Stone 10 | left column | 12th name
Elizabeth’s parents are Thomas Edward Holroyd and Dinah Williams, both from England.
The family left England and landed in Pennsylvania. They were there for over two years because Thomas was ill and needed to get well to travel. It was here that their ninth child was born, another daughter, Elizabeth Smith Holroyd.
They traveled to Nebraska, because they were late in getting there, and it being late in the season to travel to Utah, they were advised to wait until the next year. Heeding that advice they spent the winter of 1860 in Nebraska. The following year, they joined the Joseph Horne Company to go west, they left on July 4th, 1861.
When the company was about a week away from their journey's end to the Salt Lake Valley, little Elizabeth became sick and passed away.
According to Thomas's life story:
“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.”
Little 2 year old Elizabeth died near Fort Bridger, Wyoming and is buried by the Muddy Creek along the Mormon Trail.