Robert's Story
Birth: January 1st, 1854 | male | in West Elizabeth, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Death: ?? ??, 1861 | 7 years old | by the Weber River in Utah
Memorial: Stone 10 | right column
Robert Russell is the son of James Russell from Scotland and Elizabeth Householder from Pennsylvania.
In 1861, when Robert was 6-year-old, the family joined an “unknown company” with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint to journey west to the Great Salt Lake Valley.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Robert died of unspecified causes just as the company reached the Weber River in the Utah Territory. He is buried alongside the Mormon Trail.