Mary's Story
Birth: March 19th, 1848 | female | in Brixton, Surrey, England
Death: July ??, 1854 | 6 years old | on the Mormon Trail West
Memorial: Stone 4 | left column
Mary Ann (Marian) Pinney was the third of five children born to Robert Charles Pinney and Matilda Murch, both of England. The family immigrated to America and joined an unknown company to journey west to the Great Salt Lake Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Cholera (a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water) invaded the camp and many were victims of the deadly outbreak. Among them was 6-year-old Mary Ann and her father, Robert. Her father is buried near Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Mary Ann is buried along the Mormon Trail West.