Ellen's Story
Birth: March 29th, 1862 | female | in London, England
Death: September 21st, 1863 | 1 year old | 2 miles West of Carroll Hollow in Wyoming
Memorial: Stone 12 | left column
Ellen Haynes is seventh of 11 children born to Richard Haynes and Eliza Brown, both from England. The Haynes family immigrated to America and traveled to Nebraska to join a wagon train, the Daniel D. McArthur Company, bound for the Great Salt Lake Valley. With other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they left Nebraska on August 6, 1863.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Along the way, 1-year-old Ellen passed away of undocumented causes. She is buried about two miles West of Carroll Hollow along the Mormon Trail in Wyoming.