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Actual burial here
Little Joseph's family had arrived at Coralville, outside of Iowa City, in preparation for crossing the Great Plains with the 3rd group of Mormon Saints in the Edward Bunker Handcart Company. (His father's, Thomas' first wife, Jane Morgan, and a daughter had died in 1845 and his second wife, Ann John, had also died in Wales, along with her infant son, Lewis, some four years earlier; but Ann's remaining children, Tom Jr., 10; Emma, 8; and Hyrum, 5 were with them on the trek).
The new little family consisted of Joseph, age fourteen and a half months old; his father Thomas Evans Sr., 37; his mother, Mary Norris, 24; and Joseph's older and younger sisters, Elizabeth, 3 and Mary Ann, three months old.
Just as many other families had been unfortunate to suffer, the Evans family grieved over Thomas' & Mary Norris' only son's death while they were encamped there and was laid to rest alongside other friends in a desert graveyard.
The bereaved family was obliged to continue preparing for their westward trek, which would commence in a few weeks.
The ADAMS SENTINEL a publication issued on July 28, 1856 from Fort Desmoines, Iowa gave a descriptive account of what they cryptically titled, "The Mormon Delusion":
"In the broiling sun these poor creatures, the majority of whom are women, moved along slowly in Indian file, dragging behind them in little carts the necessaries for the journey, sometimes two women dragging the cart, at other times a man and woman together. The company was from Europe, and mostly consisted of English people, who had left their comfortable homes, their early associations, and all the attachments which render the English such unwilling emigrants, and here, with a journey of more than a thousand miles before them, of which two hundred would be through a perfect desert, without shade or water, these miserable deluded people were trudging forward."
Those who had to leave loved ones in the lonely graves were the most downtrodden of all.
Mary Norris Evans would face larger trials in the Valley of Salt Lake, as her husband died, leaving her with her aged mother-in-law and all the children, just a year later.
Actual burial here
Little Joseph's family had arrived at Coralville, outside of Iowa City, in preparation for crossing the Great Plains with the 3rd group of Mormon Saints in the Edward Bunker Handcart Company. (His father's, Thomas' first wife, Jane Morgan, and a daughter had died in 1845 and his second wife, Ann John, had also died in Wales, along with her infant son, Lewis, some four years earlier; but Ann's remaining children, Tom Jr., 10; Emma, 8; and Hyrum, 5 were with them on the trek).
The new little family consisted of Joseph, age fourteen and a half months old; his father Thomas Evans Sr., 37; his mother, Mary Norris, 24; and Joseph's older and younger sisters, Elizabeth, 3 and Mary Ann, three months old.
Just as many other families had been unfortunate to suffer, the Evans family grieved over Thomas' & Mary Norris' only son's death while they were encamped there and was laid to rest alongside other friends in a desert graveyard.
The bereaved family was obliged to continue preparing for their westward trek, which would commence in a few weeks.
The ADAMS SENTINEL a publication issued on July 28, 1856 from Fort Desmoines, Iowa gave a descriptive account of what they cryptically titled, "The Mormon Delusion":
"In the broiling sun these poor creatures, the majority of whom are women, moved along slowly in Indian file, dragging behind them in little carts the necessaries for the journey, sometimes two women dragging the cart, at other times a man and woman together. The company was from Europe, and mostly consisted of English people, who had left their comfortable homes, their early associations, and all the attachments which render the English such unwilling emigrants, and here, with a journey of more than a thousand miles before them, of which two hundred would be through a perfect desert, without shade or water, these miserable deluded people were trudging forward."
Those who had to leave loved ones in the lonely graves were the most downtrodden of all.
Mary Norris Evans would face larger trials in the Valley of Salt Lake, as her husband died, leaving her with her aged mother-in-law and all the children, just a year later.
~ This is a Memorial Site Only ~
Actual burial here
Little Joseph's family had arrived at Coralville, outside of Iowa City, in preparation for crossing the Great Plains with the 3rd group of Mormon Saints in the Edward Bunker Handcart Company. (His father's, Thomas' first wife, Jane Morgan, and a daughter had died in 1845 and his second wife, Ann John, had also died in Wales, along with her infant son, Lewis, some four years earlier; but Ann's remaining children, Tom Jr., 10; Emma, 8; and Hyrum, 5 were with them on the trek).
The new little family consisted of Joseph, age fourteen and a half months old; his father Thomas Evans Sr., 37; his mother, Mary Norris, 24; and Joseph's older and younger sisters, Elizabeth, 3 and Mary Ann, three months old.
Just as many other families had been unfortunate to suffer, the Evans family grieved over Thomas' & Mary Norris' only son's death while they were encamped there and was laid to rest alongside other friends in a desert graveyard.
The bereaved family was obliged to continue preparing for their westward trek, which would commence in a few weeks.
The ADAMS SENTINEL a publication issued on July 28, 1856 from Fort Desmoines, Iowa gave a descriptive account of what they cryptically titled, "The Mormon Delusion":
"In the broiling sun these poor creatures, the majority of whom are women, moved along slowly in Indian file, dragging behind them in little carts the necessaries for the journey, sometimes two women dragging the cart, at other times a man and woman together. The company was from Europe, and mostly consisted of English people, who had left their comfortable homes, their early associations, and all the attachments which render the English such unwilling emigrants, and here, with a journey of more than a thousand miles before them, of which two hundred would be through a perfect desert, without shade or water, these miserable deluded people were trudging forward."
Those who had to leave loved ones in the lonely graves were the most downtrodden of all.
Mary Norris Evans would face larger trials in the Valley of Salt Lake, as her husband died, leaving her with her aged mother-in-law and all the children, just a year later.
Actual burial here
Little Joseph's family had arrived at Coralville, outside of Iowa City, in preparation for crossing the Great Plains with the 3rd group of Mormon Saints in the Edward Bunker Handcart Company. (His father's, Thomas' first wife, Jane Morgan, and a daughter had died in 1845 and his second wife, Ann John, had also died in Wales, along with her infant son, Lewis, some four years earlier; but Ann's remaining children, Tom Jr., 10; Emma, 8; and Hyrum, 5 were with them on the trek).
The new little family consisted of Joseph, age fourteen and a half months old; his father Thomas Evans Sr., 37; his mother, Mary Norris, 24; and Joseph's older and younger sisters, Elizabeth, 3 and Mary Ann, three months old.
Just as many other families had been unfortunate to suffer, the Evans family grieved over Thomas' & Mary Norris' only son's death while they were encamped there and was laid to rest alongside other friends in a desert graveyard.
The bereaved family was obliged to continue preparing for their westward trek, which would commence in a few weeks.
The ADAMS SENTINEL a publication issued on July 28, 1856 from Fort Desmoines, Iowa gave a descriptive account of what they cryptically titled, "The Mormon Delusion":
"In the broiling sun these poor creatures, the majority of whom are women, moved along slowly in Indian file, dragging behind them in little carts the necessaries for the journey, sometimes two women dragging the cart, at other times a man and woman together. The company was from Europe, and mostly consisted of English people, who had left their comfortable homes, their early associations, and all the attachments which render the English such unwilling emigrants, and here, with a journey of more than a thousand miles before them, of which two hundred would be through a perfect desert, without shade or water, these miserable deluded people were trudging forward."
Those who had to leave loved ones in the lonely graves were the most downtrodden of all.
Mary Norris Evans would face larger trials in the Valley of Salt Lake, as her husband died, leaving her with her aged mother-in-law and all the children, just a year later.
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