Lorenzo Isaacson

Lorenzo's parents are Neils Isaacson and Bertha Katherine Aagensen, both from Norway.

Lorenzo was the fourth child out of eight in their family.

After the Isaacson's came to America from Norway, they joined the John Riggs Murdock Company to travel to Utah. The company left for their journey on July 4.

Five weeks later, little Lorenzo came down with dysentery and passed away.

According to the history of the journey it says:

“one woman had to ride with her baby who was very ill with what was referred to then as summer complaint--a dysentary form of illness. By the time they reached Florence Nebraska (the settlement which bloomed on the ashes of Winter Quarters), the baby died. That night, a little grave was dug by the wagon, a sheet was put around the thin little body and then was laid in the shallow grave. They didn't even have a box to put him in. The mother cried as though her heart would break.”

Little one year old Lorenzo is buried by the Mormon Trail in Nebraska.