Lucretia Jane Boren

Lucretia Jane Boren is the seventh of eleven children born to Beverly Collins Boren from Illinois and Mary Frances Mathes from Kentucky. They were married in Illinois in 1839.

The family joined the Benjamin Gardner Company of 1852 to journey to the Utah Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latte-day Saints. Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers.

According to a history of Lucretia's father, as the company approached the Bluff Ruins, many of the Saints became ill with cholera (a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water). Among the victims of the dreaded illness were Lucretia and her brother, Hosea. They died the same day on July 16, 1852 and are buried near Willow Creek where it empties into the Platte River in Nebraska.