Lizzie B Grant

Lizzie B. Grant is the daughter of William Grant and Harriet Foster, both from England. The Grant family boarded the ship John Bright to immigrate to America. After arriving, they journeyed to Nebraska and joined the Samuel W. White Company. With other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the company left Nebraska on July 10, 1866 bound for the Utah Territory.

Disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers.

From the history of William Grant: “Lizzie died after getting ill in Wyoming.” He said they had “crossed the South Platte River and the Sweetwater and were camping at a place called Silver Creek when she died.” After they had stopped that night at Silver Creek, Lizzie passed away. “They washed and layed her out in a nice clean nightgown. They buried her the next morning in a soapbox in a grave on the side of a hill, 5 miles East of North Platte Bridge.”