John's Story
Birth: November 7th, 1850 | male | in Aston, Warwickshire, England
Death: July 30th, 1864 | 13 years old | in St
Memorial: Stone 13 | left column
John Hyrum Lines is the seventh of nine children born to John Lines and Jane Haddon, both from England. John and Jane immigrated to America with six children, sailing on the ship ‘Hudson.” Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. There was a great deal of disease on board the ship, including measles, dysentery and cholera.
After the Lines family arrived in America, they traveled to Nebraska, with a stop in St. Joseph, Missouri. It was there that 13-year-old John passed away from the effects of an illness he was exposed to on the ship and while traveling to Nebraska. The rest of the family joined the William Hyde Company to journey with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Salt Lake Valley. The company left Nebraska on August 9, 1864.
While it is unknown as to where John Hyrum is buried, a family map indicates dates and locations where family members died on the journey west. There is also a memorial at the Goshen City Cemetery for family who passed away on the journey west and their parents.