Sarah Jane Colvin

Sarah Jane Colvin is the seventh child born to Orlin Philander Colvin and Jane Dutcher, both from New York. Her parents were married in 1836.

The Colvin family joined the Joseph Outhouse Company with other members of The Church of Jesus Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to trek to the Great Salt Lake Valley. Sarah Jane was born prior to their journey west.

Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. The journey was especially difficult on little children. While company journal entries indicate diseases such as cholera and measles, Sarah Jane, 1-year-old, passed away of undocumented reasons. She is buried somewhere along the trail in Wyoming.