Inscription on plaque;
A Famous Utah Pioneer Child
ANNA CHRISTINA PETERSON WILCOX
1856-1934


Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, died in Cedar Fort, Utah.
At eighteen months of age, while crossing the plains in a handcart with a company of Latter-Day Saint immigrants, she became ill with cholera and died. Hostile Indians prevented taking time to dig a grave. As instructed, she was left behind, wrapped in a blanket beneath a prairie bush. While others slept during the darkness of the following night, her beloved mother, Maren Peterson, beside herself with consternation, walked a day's journey back to get Anna Christina. Large prairie wolves had not harmed the baby-and she was found alive! Continued blessing saw her safely to her journey's end.

At sixteen she became a second wife to Samuel Allen Wilcox and had nine children. "Mother Wilcox" and her family lived on property about one and one-half blocks northwest of this spot where she was a faithful member of the Church, became a noted midwife who delivered about two hundred babies in the valley; was a devoted friend and beloved neighbor. On many cold, wintry nights she waled across the snow with lantern in hand, to deliver babies or tend the sick. Wolves sometimes walked beside her and licked the warm hand which carried the lantern, but did not harm her then either.

Monument placed in 1992 by children whose hearts were touched by her story.

Link to a readable image of the plaque and a transcription.


Samuel Allen Wilcox and Anna Christina Peterson were married 21 October 1872 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

Children of Sam and Anna and their spouses:
(Samuel Allen Wilcox Family Number beginning with Sam's 13th child and Anna's first child.)
SAW1_13 Anna Laura Wilcox Calton and Fredrick Calton
SAW1_14 Margaret Marn Wilcox Brems and John Brems
SAW1_15 James Alfred Wilcox and Beatea Agnes Matthews Wilcox Adamson
SAW1_16 Bertha Charlotte Wilcox Anderson Fjelsted and (1) Samuel Anderson and (2) Matthew Fjelsted
SAW1_17 Martha Cordelia Wilcox Stephens and Joseph Matthew Stephens
SAW1_18 Mary Inger Wilcox Sabey Calton and (1) Eugene Sabey and (2) Joseph Calton
SAW1_19 Ross Earnest Wilcox
SAW1_20 Helen Mar Wilcox Yates and John Henry Yates
SAW1_21 Ole Able Wilcox and Nellie Louise Young Wilcox