Emmaretta's Story
Birth: April 23rd, 1855 | female | in Chesterton, Westchester Township, Porter, Indiana
Death: ?? ??, 1857 | 2 years old | by Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 8
Emmaretta Green was born to Robert Kenyon Green and Esther Eliza Morrison, both born in New York.
A document records that Robert Green and family were returning to Utah because he had been on a mission for the Church in the Eastern States. They joined an “unknown company” to journey back to Utah. Along the way, 2-year-old Emmaretta passed away on the journey West in Nebraska. Her cause of death is unknown. She is buried along the Mormon Trail by Scott’s Bluff in Nebraska.
In Amos M Musser's report to Brigham Young, he wrote: “Several fresh graves mark the steps of the Angel of Death amongst them. I think we noticed but three or four. The names of three I remember well, as follows: Brother James Reader, late from St. Louis, formerly from England; Brother Peter Hanson, a Dane, and a young female by the name of Emerretta Green.”