Mary Agnes Holt

Mary Agnes Holt is the daughter of John Roskell Holt and Sarah Noblet Jolley, both from England. Mary Agnes was 6- years-old years old when she and her family immigrated to American on the ship “Belle Wood.” After arriving in America, they traveled to Nebraska and, with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, joined the Daniel Thompson Company. On July 24, 1866, the company left for the Great Salt Lake Valley.

Disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Four days after beginning the trek west, Mary Agnes passed away of unspecified causes. She is buried on the plains of Nebraska. Her mother, Sarah, passed away on September 19, just a few weeks before the company arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.