Jacob's Story
Birth: December 19th, 1848 | male | in Jamestown, Moniteau, Missouri
Death: June 25th, 1850 | 1 year old | on the bank of the Platte River, Wyoming
Memorial: Stone 1 | left column
The parents of Jacob Lee are Francis Lee of Ohio and Jane Vail Johnson of New Jersey. They were married in 1835 in Missouri and blessed with 12 children. Jacob Edward Lee was their seventh child. The family left Iowa on 11 June to join the James Pace Company to travel to the Salt Lake Valley.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Cholera, a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water, infected many of the travelers. While on the trail, Cholera struck the company and many passed away. Jacob was among the victims. He died on June 25, and was buried near the North Platte River in Wyoming, along the Mormon Trail West.