Horace Martin Alexander Jr.

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Horace Martin Alexander Jr.

Birth
Winter Quarters / Florence, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA
Death
31 Jan 1847 (aged 30 days)
Winter Quarters / Florence, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA Add to Map
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Two quotes from the journal of James Henry Rollins (1816-1899):

"I also cut logs and built a house for the wife and family of my brother-in-law Horace Alexander who had gone as one of the 500 that was called to Mexico in the Battalion and they left in my charge during the winter of 1846. This wife gave birth to a child after which she had what the doctor called the black leg. She died and was buried in the hill. In a week or so her infant died and we carried it and opened the mother's grave and placed it's little coffin on it's mother's."

"Then the company journeyed on toward Salt Lake. After we arrived there, I moved my wagon into the old Fort, also that of Horace Alexander's children. Their mother died at Winter Quarters after their father had been called with the Mormon Battalion. The mother died in childbirth and the father not knowing of her death and when hearing of the company coming he went out to meet his wife and family and did not know of her death until he reached the wagon where his children were being taken care of by their grandmother, Nancy Walker, and there he was told by Grandma the sad story of his wife's death. Mother and baby buried in the same grave. No one can tell the heart rending scene of the father and children."
Two quotes from the journal of James Henry Rollins (1816-1899):

"I also cut logs and built a house for the wife and family of my brother-in-law Horace Alexander who had gone as one of the 500 that was called to Mexico in the Battalion and they left in my charge during the winter of 1846. This wife gave birth to a child after which she had what the doctor called the black leg. She died and was buried in the hill. In a week or so her infant died and we carried it and opened the mother's grave and placed it's little coffin on it's mother's."

"Then the company journeyed on toward Salt Lake. After we arrived there, I moved my wagon into the old Fort, also that of Horace Alexander's children. Their mother died at Winter Quarters after their father had been called with the Mormon Battalion. The mother died in childbirth and the father not knowing of her death and when hearing of the company coming he went out to meet his wife and family and did not know of her death until he reached the wagon where his children were being taken care of by their grandmother, Nancy Walker, and there he was told by Grandma the sad story of his wife's death. Mother and baby buried in the same grave. No one can tell the heart rending scene of the father and children."

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