Joseph's Story
Birth: March ??, 1854 | male | in Newport, Gloucestershire, England
Death: July ??, 1855 | 1 year old | In Kansas by the Garden of Eden
Memorial: Stone 5 | right column
Joseph Bush is the eighth of nine children born to James Bush and Sophia Humphries, both of England. After immigrating to America, they joined the Richard Ballantype Company to trek west with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Great Salt Lake Valley.
According to a journal entry, it reads: “Their baby Joseph, then eighteen months old became very sick. They prayed so earnestly that he might live to get across the sea which he did, but he never fully recovered. On account of not having proper food and nourishment he died while crossing the plains. He was buried in a place called the "Garden of Eden."”
Joseph, 18 months old, is buried in the Garden of Eden in Kansas.