Jude's Story
Birth: June 27th, 1851 | male | undefined
Death: July 29th, 1852 | 1 year old | Unknown Location
Memorial: Stone 2 | center column | 7th name
Jude Allen, Jr., born27 June, 1851 in Pottawattamie County, Iowa; died: 31 July, 1852 at ancient bluff ruins in Morrill County, Nebraska. Remembered at the Pioneer Children’s Memorial, This is the Place Heritage Park; Stone 2.
Jude Allen, Jr., is the eighth of 12 children born to Jude Allen of New York and Mary Ann Nicholas from Ohio, married in 1836.
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the family joined the Benjamin Gardner Company to trek west to the Great Salt Lake Valley. The company left Iowa on June 2. Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. A few weeks after beginning their journey, cholera (a bacterial disease caused by contaminated water) and other diseases attacked many of the Saints. It is believed that 1-year-old Jude, Jr. succumbed to cholera on July 31, 1852 and is buried near ancient ruins in Morrill County, Nebraska.
From the journal of Benjamin Gardner: “On the 29, Jude Allen Juneyer [Junior] aged 1 year[,] 1 month[,] 4 days passed away.”