NN Price

NN's Story

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NN's Story

researched by Penny Magnusson Hannum

Birth:  ?? ??, 1848   |   unknown   |   possibly England

Death:  July 12th, 1850   |   2 years old   |   on the Mormon Trail by Grand Island

Memorial:   Stone 1   |   left column

Charlotte Price from England is the child's mother. The family joined the William Snow – Joseph Young Company to travel West with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Cholera struck the company. It is likely that this child (without a name) and Charlotte suffered from the disease, killing the 2-year-old child. The child is buried on the Mormon Trail somewhere near Grand Island.

The Journal of Captain William Snow, 1850 recorded the burial: "Friday 12. Tr. passed Garners 10. Sister Price very sick. Also her babe. Sister [Nancy Kittle] Barnham took her little babe 2 years old. Brought it on with us. It died that afternoon. Br. John Moon died this evening. Had a very heavy thunder shower. Buried Br. Moon in the evening, also the child of Sister Price."

submitted by The Daughters of Utah Pioneers and Days of ‘47