Joseph's Story
Birth: January 1st, 1858 | male | in Dudley, Worcestershire, England
Death: July 10th, 1866 | 8 years old | in Willow Springs, Crook, Wyoming
Memorial: Stone 14 | right column
Joseph Cottle is the last of five children born to Henry Cottle and Elizabeth Brettell from England. After immigrating to America, the family joined the John D. Hollaway Company to journey 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. There was a great deal of illness in the company because of the bad drinking water. (Could have been cholera.)
When the Company was six miles from the Laramie River, 8-year-old Joseph passed away. He is buried along the Mormon Trail at Willow Springs.