Violetta's Story
Birth: ?? ??, 1850 | female | undefined
Death: July 24th, 1852 | 2 years old | near the Loup Fork, Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 3 | right column
Violetta P. Robinson is the daughter of James Robinson and Amelia Maria Aldrich from Massachusetts.
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the family desired to travel west to the Great Salt Lake Valley. James passed away before their journey began. Amelia took her children and joined the Allen Weeks Company of 1852 to cross the plain.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. The company journal recorded that cholera (a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water) invaded the camp. Little 2-year-old Violetta passed away from unspecified causes and is buried near Loup Fork, Nebraska, where they were camped for the day.
From the journal entry: “Mrs. Amelia Robison’s child, Violetta P. Robison, died this morning & was buried, about 11 o’clock A.M.”