Hosea's Story
Birth: December 25th, 1839 | male | in Union County, Illinois
Death: July 16th, 1852 | 12 years old | near Willow Creek Township, Pierce, Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 2
Hosea Berian Boren was the first of 11 children born to Beverly Collins Boren from Illinois and Mary Frances Mathes from Kentucky.
When Hosea was 12-years-old, the family joined the Benjamin Gardner Company of 1852 to journey with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latte-day Saints to the Salt Lake Valley.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. According to Hosea's father, when they were nearing the Bluff Ruins, cholera (a bacterial disease caused by contaminated water) invaded the company. Hosea was one of several victims who passed away from the deadly disease. He is buried near where a creek that empties into the Platte River in Nebraska.