Susannah Rose Jarvis-Banks died on the Oregon Trail as she and her husband, Thomas Baxter Banks, were traveling by wagon train to Oregon along the Oregon trail. They were buried on the Oregon Trail in unmarked graves. Thomas and Susannah had 11 children: Lydia Banks, Verlinda A. Banks-Kincanon, Simon Peter Banks, Elizabeth Rose Banks-Doggett, Samuel Austin Banks, Tirzah C. Banks, Hilkiah Thomas Banks, Jabez Baxter Banks, Rhoda Ann Banks, Lebbeus Irwin Banks, and Felix Banks. Elizabeth Rose and Samuel Austin were twins, born September 20th, 1818. Thomas and Susannah were accompanied to Oregon on the covered wagon trip by two of their sons, Hilikiah Thomas and Lebbeus Irwin. These two sons survived the trip and went on to live productive lives, dying in old age at 80 and 73 respectively.
......Notes written by a Banks family member:
Naomi Banks was born in Arkansas 7 November 1851 and started west on April 6th 1852 with her father and mother, a half brother, half sister and her paternal grandparents (Thomas Baxter Banks and Susannah Rose Jarvis Banks). There were 104 wagons in the caravan that was headed for the Oregon Country. Like many of the wagon trains that trekked across the hills and plains, some gave out by the wayside, some rushed ahead rapidly, some turned south to California and some plodded on through to the promised land. Naomi Banks parents eventually pulled into Oregon City, November 1852. The trip had its dark side even though they had no trouble with Indians, for they buried Grandmother Banks (Susannah Rose Jarvis Banks) at Burnt River and buried Grandfather Banks (Thomas Baxter Banks) at Umatilla River, four miles from the present Indian Reservation. In after years, an effort was made to find his last resting place, but the stockade of saplings that had been placed around the grave had disappeared and sand had drifted over the probable spot. While the Indians were pointing out the burial ground, a man hurried over and told of the assassination of President Garfield.
∼Maiden name could be Jarvix

Source "Live Boys In Oregon" by Louis Albert Banks
"After five months of ceaseless travel and exertion, enduring hardships beyond number, when almost in sight of the promised land, their devoted train was overtaken by an epidemic of cholera which that year followed the trail of the emigrants and destroyed a large portion of the men, women, and children of their fated band.

His mother fell first, and they buried her with other friends who succumbed to the fatal disease at that sad camping-place at the foot of a giant boulder, as big as an ordinary dwelling-house, covering every grave over with hugh piles of stone to save the bodies from the ravaging teeth of prairie wolves. At that time this lonely graveyard was half a thousand miles from any human habitation, save an Indian wigwam or some trader's movable hut. Imagine my astonishment when, a few years ago, I came over that old trail with a camping outfit, pitching my tent night after night at the old camping-places, coming with sad interest to seek out the spot of my grandmother's grave, to find there a bustling, growing railroad town, and that the Union depot of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. line, and the Oregon Short-Line Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, was building almost on the very spot of that once lonely burying-place, and stands to-day as her strange and unique monument.