Joseph's Story
researched by Penny Magnusson Hannum
Birth: December 28th, 1848 | male | in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa
Death: July 27th, 1849 | Infant | near the Platte River
Memorial: Stone 1 | right column
Joseph Orson Egbert is the fifth of thirteen children born to Joseph Teasdale Egbert of Indiana and Mary Caroline Allred of Tennessee. Joseph and Mary were married in 1840.
In 1849, the Egbert family joined the Allen Taylor Company to travel west to the Salt Lake Valley. In the company journal, they were two weeks out of Kanesville when 6-month-old Joseph passed away of unknown causes. He is buried near the Platte River.
submitted by The Daughters of Utah Pioneers and Days of ‘47