Phillip's Story
Birth: ?? ??, 1856 | male | in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
Death: September 16th, 1862 | 6 years old | East of the Sweetwater in Wyoming
Memorial: Stone 11 | left column | 20th name
Phillip’s parents are David R. Todd and Martha Elizabeth Price, both of Wales.
The family came from Great Britain to America with their five children. Phillip Todd was their fifth and last child. They joined the Ansel P. Harmon Company to go west, they left Nebraska on August 1.
When the company was just east of the Sweetwater, Phillip came down with diarrhea and passed away.
Six year old Phillip is buried just east of the Sweetwater River in Wyoming.
From William Ajax’s journal of the journey in part:
“Philip, the son of bro. David and sister Martha Todd, died this evening. He suffered for a long time from the diarrhaia, and afterwards from a kind of gathering in the throat, which caused his death.
Wednesday, 17th. Went this morning up to a rock hard by and fetched a post to nail on the head-board of Philip Todd’s grave.”
From John Daniel Thompson, journal on the journey:
“Wednesday 17th A very fine morning, buried Philip Todd & Jacobine Marrie [Marie] Larsen. they died last night, the former of Worms & diarrhorea the Son of David & Martha aged 6 years from [,] the latter of weakness from its birth Daughter of Maren aged 7 from Denmark[.] we buried them on the left of the road in the same grave.”