George Franklin Carroll

George Franklin Carroll is the son of Charles Negus Carroll and Lucy Elizabeth McInelly from Canada. After immigrating to America, they joined the James Brown Company to trek to the Salt Lake Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

After the company left Iowa, cholera (caused from contaminated water) invaded some members of the camp. Lucy and two of their children, Frederick and Emma, suffered from the disease and passed away. They were buried in one grave.

Two weeks later George Franklin also died of the illness and buried somewhere along the Mormon Trail in Kansas. Charles and the remaining son, Willard, journeyed on to Utah.

From Willard's journal: “I remember landing at St. Louis, Mo. and the camp ground at Leavenworth where my Mother died of Cholera also my brother [sic] Frederick and my sister Emma they three being buried in one grave. I remember the start by Ox team but not much of the journey across the plains, I was very sick. My brother George died after we had started by team leaving my father with myself as the only survivor of our family, himself so worn with caring for us and attending to his team, that he often crawled into camp on his hands and knees, being too exhausted to stand and walk. I was so sick and wasted I could not sit up and the weather was so sultry if I was left but a short time, flies would blow [in] my face and eyes and maggots were found on my face. We arrived in Salt Lake City in October 1854.”