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Show Winterin at Winter 133 Quarters in the movement from Nauvoo to the valley. Sidney would suffer the the hardest blow. He would lose his wife and three children - three youngest. The trip West was scarcely begun when James Monroe Tanner died March 10, 1846, and was buried at Richardson Point. James was less than two years of age. The mother, Louisa Conlee Tanner, died at Winter Quarters, September 29, not long after their arrival there. Whether her death was related to the birth of her last child, Mason Lyman, born July J, 1846, is not clear, but this child followed death, on November 29. In the space of lost his wife and two youngest children. her in eight months Sidney But an additional bereavement awaited him; his six-year old Sidney C., would lose his life in an accident in 1848 on the trip Additional information regarding Sidney's severe across the plains. losses will be given in the chapter which follows. John Joshua and his wife Rebecca lost two children during the West. Cynthia Marie, age three, born at Montrose, Iowa, died in trip February, 1848, at Winter Quarters, and a twin, Edwin, was born and son, died at Kanesville. Lyman, and her husband Amasa, four-and-a-half-year old girl, Ruth Adelia, Louisa Maria loss of a mourned the who died at Winter Quarters. \3 The number of those who died at Winter Quarters will never be known, but the total was staggering. With poor food, nonexistent sanitation, no doctors worthy of the name, and no medicine, the toll 14 was especially high among children and mothers bearing children. Partridge Lyman, quoted previously, gives a vivid cription of her feelings at the loss of her baby. This was her child and was born July 14, 1846, in a wagon box. Since her was similar to many others, she is quoted to some length: Eliza des first case uncomfortably situated for a sick woman. The scorching shining upon the wagon through the da,y and the cool air at night, is almost too much of a change to be healthy. I am very sun possession of our log house today. The first house for the privilege my baby has ever been in. I feel extremely thankful in it blow cannot wind the of sitting by a fire where every direction, and where I can warm one side without freezing the other. Our house is minus floor and many other comforts, but the walls protect We have taken us from the wind, if the sod roof does not from the rain. |
