Orrin Foster

Orrin’s parents were Daniel Alfred Foster and Rebecca Bolles Beebe, both of Connecticut.

According to the histories found, Daniel and Rebecca didn't come to Utah together.

Daniel joined the Milo Andrus Company of 1855 with three children to journey to the Salt Lake Valley. There were many diseases that attacked the Saints at that time, cholera was one of them. It is assumed that Orrin and his father contracted that disease.

There are two sources I found that relate what happened:

“Baby Orrin Foster, Listed Birth Date: 1 January 1854 [but probably born around September 1854] Death Date: 1 September 1855, died enroute; Mother Rebecca states in a letter to President Buchanan that her “babe” was only 9 months old in May 1855 when her husband, Daniel, took him from her; she got word that he died enroute on a church wagon train to the Salt Lake Valley.”

“When Orrin Foster was born in 1854, in Madison, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Daniel Alfred Foster, was 33 and his mother, Rebecca Bolles Beebe, was 25. Orrin died in September 1855 at the age of 1” on the plains of Wyoming, during a Mormon overland wagon train to the Salt Lake Valley in the Utah Territory. He and his siblings had been accompanied by their father, who died near Ft. Laramie during the trek. His siblings continued on and were taken in by families in Salt Lake. Eventually his sisters, Harriet and Margarette were returned to their mother in Connecticut.”

Little 1 year old Orrin passed away from cholera as did his dad near Fort Laramie, Wyoming.

He is buried somewhere near Fort Laramie, Wyoming.