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Job Welling Jr.

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Job Welling Jr.

Birth
Portsmouth, Portsmouth Unitary Authority, Hampshire, England
Death
17 Jun 1856 (aged 1)
Poweshiek County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Oakland Acres, Jasper County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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The son of Job & Frances Elizabeth (Yeoman) Welling died approximately 10 miles east of this location and was buried Wednesday June 18.

This grave is an important stop along the Mormon Handcraft Trail Tour.

∼Job Welling, Jr. and his parents were part of the first Handcart company (Edmund Ellsworth Co.) of Mormon Pioneers to cross the plains to Salt Lake City, Utah. According to the record of the first handcart company, little Job Welling Jr. died on the plains of Iowa on 17 June 1856 of "canker or inflammation of the bowels." It was probably near what is now known as the town of Grinnell, Iowa. On 18 June the company traveled 10 miles and little Job was buried there "three feet from the North East corner of Mr. Watson's farm, Section 25, Township 80, Range 17 on the plains of Iowa." The burial place is now within the bounds of the Jacob Krumm Nature Preserve in Jasper County, Iowa, and there is a monument on the grave site.
The son of Job & Frances Elizabeth (Yeoman) Welling died approximately 10 miles east of this location and was buried Wednesday June 18.

This grave is an important stop along the Mormon Handcraft Trail Tour.

∼Job Welling, Jr. and his parents were part of the first Handcart company (Edmund Ellsworth Co.) of Mormon Pioneers to cross the plains to Salt Lake City, Utah. According to the record of the first handcart company, little Job Welling Jr. died on the plains of Iowa on 17 June 1856 of "canker or inflammation of the bowels." It was probably near what is now known as the town of Grinnell, Iowa. On 18 June the company traveled 10 miles and little Job was buried there "three feet from the North East corner of Mr. Watson's farm, Section 25, Township 80, Range 17 on the plains of Iowa." The burial place is now within the bounds of the Jacob Krumm Nature Preserve in Jasper County, Iowa, and there is a monument on the grave site.

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This stone marks the grave of Job Welling, Jr.
October 20, 1854-June 17, 1856
The son of Job and Frances E. Welling. He
died approximately 10 miles east of here,
and was buried Wednesday, June 18. From
the camp journal of the First Company of
Handcarts crossing the plains from Iowa
City to Salt Lake City in the summer of 1856.
Edmund Ellsworth, Captain
Andrew Galloway, Secretary
First Company
Handcarts to Zion

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