Lydia's Story
Birth: March 25th, 1849 | female | in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa
Death: June 28th, 1850 | 1 year old | in Nebraska Territory
Memorial: Stone 1 | left column
Lydia was born to Charles Young Webb Sr. of New York and Margaret Allen of New Jersey. They were married in 1846 in Iowa.
The Webb Family joined other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to travel West with the Warren Foote Company of 1850. Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Cholera, a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water, infected many of the travelers. Cholera struck the camp and 1-year-old Lydia Priscilla passed away. She is buried somewhere in Nebraska along the Mormon Trail West.