Marinda's Story
Birth: October 7th, 1850 | female | in Mount Pisgah, Union, Iowa
Death: June 29th, 1852 | 1 year old | in Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 3 | right column
Miranda Elizabeth Mangum is the last of six children born to parents William Mangum of Tennessee and Sarah Ada Adair of Alabama. The Mangum's joined with other members of The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to trek with the William West Lane Company bound for the Great Salt Lake Valley.
Exhaustive travel, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. The company had just begun the journey when cholera (bacterial disease caused from contaminated water) broke out in camp. Marinda, (almost 2-years-old), and her mother, Sarah, were among the many Saints infected with the disease. Marinda died and then her mother died a few days later. Marinda is buried along the Mormon rail near Loup Fork, Nebraska.
From the notebook written by Benjamin Gardner: “June 30 Elizabeth Marinda Mangum died on the 30th aged 1 year[,] & 9 mo[,] 8 9 day[s] and Sariah Mangum on the 5th of July aged 36 y[,] 11 mon[,] 27 days[;]”