Sarah Louisa Robinson

Sarah Louisa Robinson is the daughter of William J Robinson of Illinois and Rachel Brooke of Pennsylvania.

After joining The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the family left their home in Illinois. Rachel and the children stayed in St. Joseph, Missouri while William joined the Mormon Battalion.

In July 1847, William was discharged from the Battalion. He acquired supplies in Salt Lake City and returned to his family in Missouri.

On June 27, 1852, the family joined the Harmon Cutler Company and began their journey to 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. Shortly after beginning the journey, cholera, a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water, infected many of the travelers. It is assumed that 2-year-old Sarah Louisa fell victim to the disease and died. She is buried along the Mormon Trail in Nebraska.

Sadly, six days after Sarah Louisa passed away, her father William also passed away from cholera. He is buried on the banks of the Loup Fork in Nebraska.