Rowena's Story
Birth: October 29th, 1848 | female | in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts
Death: June 7th, 1853 | 4 years old | on the Mormon Trail in Kansas
Memorial: Stone 4 | right column
Rowena Allen Piggott was the last of five children born to George Washington Piggott from New York and Catherine A Howland from Massachusetts. The Piggott family joined the Cyrus H. Wheelock Company to come west to the Salt Lake Valley with many other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The company left June 1, 1853.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Cholera (a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water) invaded many Saints in the company. Among the victims was 4-year-old Rowena, who is buried along the Mormon Trail in Kansas.
She is buried on the Mormon Trail in Kansas.