Samuel's Story
Birth: July 28th, 1849 | male | in Green River, Sweetwater, Wyoming
Death: July 28th, 1849 | Infant | in Green River, Sweetwater, Wyoming
Memorial: Stone 1 | right column
Samuel Jones was the third of eight children born to Nathaniel Vary Jones of New York and Rebecca Maria Burton of Canada. His parents were married in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1845.
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Jones family joined the Howard Egan Company to journey across the plains 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. When the company arrived at Green River, Wyoming, Rebecca gave birth to Samuel. Sadly, the baby died the same day and is buried there on the Mormon Trail in Green River, Wyoming.
From the journal of Peter Olsen Hansen: “Sat. 28. rater windy. As Sr. Jones, N. Jones wife was taken sick on child bed we remained here. A manchild was born, died & was buried under the banck 2-3 rods south of the road. good gras. Named Samuel.”