Mary's Story
Birth: April 7th, 1865 | female | in Leominster, Herefordshire, England
Death: August 12th, 1866 | 1 year old | in Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 14 | right column
Mary Emma is a daughter of Emma Price and Charles Kelly. The Kelly Family immigrated from England to America with their four children, sailing on the ship “St. Mark.” After their arrival in America, they traveled by train to Nebraska and joined the Andrew Hunter Scott Company. With other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the company left Nebraska on August 18, 1866 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. After only four days travel, Mary Emma became ill and died. She is buried along the Mormon Trail in Nebraska.
A family story records that Kelly children had been “laid away in crude caskets and left to rest by the roadside.”