Fanny's Story
Birth: May 20th, 1860 | female | in Urbana Township, Monroe, Iowa
Death: September ??, 1864 | 4 years old | in Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 13 | left column
Fanny Wilson is the eighth of 14 children born to Wellington Paul Wilson from Vermont and Rebecca McBride of Ohio.
After joining The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Wilson family traveled to Nebraska to join the William S. Warren Company to join other Saints in the Salt Lake Valley. The company left Nebraska on July 21.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. While in Nebraska, near the Wyoming boarder, 4-year-old Fanny and her two sisters were infected with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (caused from infected tick bite). All three of the girls died from their affliction. They are buried along the Mormon Trail in Nebraska.