Lucretia's Story
Birth: December 29th, 1841 | female | in Quincy, Adams, Illinois
Death: June 15th, 1848 | 6 years old | by Platte River in Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 1 | right column | 40th name
Lucretia Cox is the eleventh of sixteen children born to Jehu Cox and Sarah Riddle Pyle, both from Kentucky.
The Cox family joined the Heber C. Kimball Company to travel west to the Salt Lake Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Company left for the Utah Territory on June 7, 1848.
After traveling a week, 6-year-old Lucretia fell from the wagon and was run over. She is buried by the Platte Iver in Nebraska.
From the journal of Heber C. Kimball: “Thursday June 15 This is a fine Morning with a good Breize from the West, the camp started this Morning at 9 oclock Brother Billings taking the Lead[.] we went this Morning in single file[.] Brother H Kimball with some 20 waggons stopd behind the rest of the Company to hunt a cow[.] the road was some Broken today with considerable pitches[.]
coming down a little pitch Brother John [Jehu] Cox Daughter Lucretia fell of[f] the waggon tongue and was run over the Body By the forewheel & over the Neck by the Hind wheel she passt 1 or 2 be and expierd[.]