Feature Articles, Summer 2007

And Should We Die—All Is Well: Doctrines to Comfort Grieving Parents on the Mormon Trail

by Patricia Rushton

“In 1847 Jedediah Grant led a company of Latter-day Saint pioneers from Winter Quarters, Nebraska, to the Salt Lake Valley. Not long before the company arrived in the valley, his six-month-old daughter, Margaret, contracted cholera and died. Her body was buried close to the trail, protected by only a mound of freshly dug clay. Soon [...]

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