Mary's Story
Birth: May 13th, 1860 | female | in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Death: July ??, 1863 | 3 years old | in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri
Memorial: Stone 13 | right column
Mary Ann Emma Taylor is the second of nine children born to George Taylor and Eliza Nicholls, both from England.
The Taylor family immigrated to America, sailing on the ship “Amazon.” After arriving in America, they traveled by train to Nebraska. Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Mary Ann was the frailest of their children, and became ill from all of the traveling. Mary Ann, 3-years-old, passed away before getting to Nebraska. When the train stopped, the undertaker was waiting to bury the little body.
As the family traveled on, Mary Ann’s brother, Parley, passed away and is buried in Nebraska. The family continued on and joined the John W. Wooley Company to cross the plains with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Salt Lake Valley. The company departed Nebraska on August 9, 1863.