Roger's Story
Birth: December 7th, 1838 | male | in Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Death: ?? ??, 1854 | 15 years old | near Hamilton, Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 4 | left column
Roger Eatough is the fourth of seven children born to Richard Eatough and Mary Eddleston. As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they joined an “unknown company” to journey to the Salt Lake Valley.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Cholera, a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water, infected many of the travelers. While on the trek west, 16-year-old Roger suffered from cholera and died. He is buried along the Mormon Trail in Nebraska.