Mary Ann Phillips

Mary Ann Phillips is the youngest of eleven children born to Edward Webb Phillips and Ann Drinkwater from England. The Phillips family immigrated to America from England on the ship “Hudson.” After arriving in America, they traveled to Nebraska where they joined an “unknown company” to journey to the 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. The company had been traveling for about a month, when 2-year-old Mary Ann became ill and died of undocumented causes. She is buried somewhere along the Mormon Trail in Nebraska.