Sarah's Story
Birth: August 6th, 1863 | female | in Florence, Douglas, Nebraska
Death: September 28th, 1863 | Infant | east of Echo Canyon in the Utah Territory
Memorial: Stone 13 | right column
Sarah Louise Webb is the sixth of eight children born to George E. Hall Webb and Eliza Thompson, both of England.
After the Webb family immigrated to America from England, they traveled to Nebraska to join the Daniel D. McArthur Company to journey with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Salt Lake Valley.
On August 6, 1863, Eliza gave birth to a baby girl they named Sarah Louis Webb. It was also the day the Company began the trek west.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. As the near the Bear River Crossing in Wyoming, 1-month-old Sarah Louise passed away. She was buried that evening near Cache Cave in Echo Canyon that evening.
From the diary of Elijah Larkin, 28 August, 1863:
“Sister Weebs [Webb's] Child that had been born on the plains and had been sickly ever since died this morning and was burried at this place.”