Elvira's Story
Birth: February 12th, 1853 | female | on the River Mersey in England
Death: June 21st, 1853 | Infant | west of the Missouri River in Iowa
Memorial: Stone 4 | right column | 30th name
Elvira’s parents were James Cole and Elizabeth Savagar from England. Elvira was their first child.
“Excerpt from the Journal of Joseph W. Young Emigrating Company: A daily journal and brief history of the voyage to New Orleans, up the river's & overland route to Salt Lake, of the company of Saints who left the [Victoria] Dock, Liverpool on Sunday Feb. 13 & the river [Mersey] on Tuesday Feb. 15, 1853 under the presidency of Elder J. W. Young on board the ship Elvira Owen, Captain Owen, Commander."Saturday Feb. 12th 1853. About 9 o'clock in the evening Sister Elizabeth Cole from the Ridgeway Cross Branch of the Worster Conference was safely delivered of a daughter. Mother and child both hearty."
After arriving in America, they joined the Cyrus H. Wheelock Company in Iowa to travel with the Saints to Utah. The company left Iowa on June 1, 1853.
On the 21st of June little Elvira passed away. No information was found as to why she passed.
Four month old Elvira Ann is buried along the Mormon Trail, just west of the Missouri River in Iowa.