Llewellyn's Story
Birth: January 1st, 1850 | male | in Council Point, Pottawattamie, Iowa
Death: July 18th, 1850 | Infant | in Plum Creek in Lexington, Dawson, Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 1 | left column
Llewellyn was born to parents Robert Cowan Petty and Mary Adelia Carbine. As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and with a desire to be in Zion, the family traveled west with the Wilford Woodruff Company of 1850 bound for the Great Salt Lake Valley. Along the way 6-month-old Llewellyn passed away and is buried by Plum Creek, near Lexington, Dawson, Nebraska. (There is no information found as to the cause of his death.)
Mary Carbine's history reads: “Llewellyn was left by the wayside in a lonely grave.”
According to company journals: “Thurs. July 18, 1850. Robert C. Petty lost a child six months old; it was buried in the morning.”