Hannah

Hannah (Ann) Sharples was the third of five children born to Joseph Sharples and Alice Fletcher, both from England. The Sharples family immigrated from England to America. After their arrival, they joined an unknown company to travel to the Great Salt Lake Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Among the victims was 1-year-old Hannah (Ann). She is buried somewhere along the Mormon Trail in Kansas.