Sally's Story
Birth: February 13th, 1845 | female | in Franklin County, Ohio
Death: October 21st, 1849 | 4 years old | crossing the plains, somewhere in Wyoming
Memorial: Stone 1 | right column
Sally Wilcox is the sixth of eleven children born to Elisha Wilcox from Pennsylvania and Anna Pickle from New Jersey. Elisha and Anna were married in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio in 1834.
When Sally was 4 years old, the family joined the Ezra T. Benson Company of 1849 to journey to the Great Salt Lake Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. In October, just one week before entering the Salt Lake Valley, little Sally passed away on the trail somewhere in western Wyoming.