Lucy's Story
Birth: September 20th, 1851 | female | in Garden Grove, Decatur, Iowa
Death: August 13th, 1852 | Infant | at Spring Creek, west of Scotts Bluff, Wyoming
Memorial: Stone 2
Lucy Elizabeth Callaway is the first child born to Levi Hamilton Callaway of Kentucky and Mary Frances Van Buren of New York. Her parents were married in 1850 in Garden Grove, Iowa.
The family joined the James C. Snow Company with a desire to journey with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Great Salt Lake Valley.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Lucy Elizabeth, 11-months-old, as well as others in the company, were infected with cholera (a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water). Lucy died and is buried along the Mormon Trail in Wyoming.
From the journal of James Snow: “13th Sister Lucy E[lizabeth] Calloway died”.