Here is the (pretty much incorrect) family legend of her death and burial, from the book "Carter Pioneers of Provo Utah:"
"Family legend, handed down by word of mouth through some four or five generations, tells us that when Sophronia's child was to be born a doctor could not be found. Not even an experienced midwife was available to aid her in the delivery of the child at the makeshift campsite on the plains... Apparently it was not a normal parturition for it is retold that as the pain and agony became more intense and unbearable Sophronia clutched the spokes of a wagon wheel and braced herself with all of her waning strength, screaming uncontrollably during the ordeal. The hemorrhage could not be stopped and she died as a few family members stood by helpless. She and her unamed child were buried in an unmarked grave on the lonely Iowa prairie beside the Carter wagon wheel tracks."
The account in the Carter book is not entirely correct. Domninicus Carter was living in Carterville at the time of Sophronia's death, and there is a first-hand account of her burial there:
In a journal entry from Nancy Naomi Alexander Tracy found in "Life History of Nancy Naomi Alexander Tracy Written by Herself" she states that Dominicus Carter's brother William's wife Hannah Cordelia was buried at the Carterville Cemetery and that Dominicus' wife (and surely the baby) were buried there too by the side of Nancy's baby boy.
Carterville was one of the "Winter Quarter" settlements near what is now Council Bluffs, and upwards of 200 Mormon pioneers were buried in its cemetery. After the exodus of the pioneers to Utah, the cemetery fell into disrepair and was eventually forgotten. It has now been located - in a farmer's field. See the newspaper article about Carterville cemetery, in the Salt Lake Tribune, 18 October 1902, page 9.
http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/sltrib22/id/147503
"Family legend, handed down by word of mouth through some four or five generations, tells us that when Sophronia's child was to be born a doctor could not be found. Not even an experienced midwife was available to aid her in the delivery of the child at the makeshift campsite on the plains... Apparently it was not a normal parturition for it is retold that as the pain and agony became more intense and unbearable Sophronia clutched the spokes of a wagon wheel and braced herself with all of her waning strength, screaming uncontrollably during the ordeal. The hemorrhage could not be stopped and she died as a few family members stood by helpless. She and her unamed child were buried in an unmarked grave on the lonely Iowa prairie beside the Carter wagon wheel tracks."
The account in the Carter book is not entirely correct. Domninicus Carter was living in Carterville at the time of Sophronia's death, and there is a first-hand account of her burial there:
In a journal entry from Nancy Naomi Alexander Tracy found in "Life History of Nancy Naomi Alexander Tracy Written by Herself" she states that Dominicus Carter's brother William's wife Hannah Cordelia was buried at the Carterville Cemetery and that Dominicus' wife (and surely the baby) were buried there too by the side of Nancy's baby boy.
Carterville was one of the "Winter Quarter" settlements near what is now Council Bluffs, and upwards of 200 Mormon pioneers were buried in its cemetery. After the exodus of the pioneers to Utah, the cemetery fell into disrepair and was eventually forgotten. It has now been located - in a farmer's field. See the newspaper article about Carterville cemetery, in the Salt Lake Tribune, 18 October 1902, page 9.
http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/sltrib22/id/147503
Here is the (pretty much incorrect) family legend of her death and burial, from the book "Carter Pioneers of Provo Utah:"
"Family legend, handed down by word of mouth through some four or five generations, tells us that when Sophronia's child was to be born a doctor could not be found. Not even an experienced midwife was available to aid her in the delivery of the child at the makeshift campsite on the plains... Apparently it was not a normal parturition for it is retold that as the pain and agony became more intense and unbearable Sophronia clutched the spokes of a wagon wheel and braced herself with all of her waning strength, screaming uncontrollably during the ordeal. The hemorrhage could not be stopped and she died as a few family members stood by helpless. She and her unamed child were buried in an unmarked grave on the lonely Iowa prairie beside the Carter wagon wheel tracks."
The account in the Carter book is not entirely correct. Domninicus Carter was living in Carterville at the time of Sophronia's death, and there is a first-hand account of her burial there:
In a journal entry from Nancy Naomi Alexander Tracy found in "Life History of Nancy Naomi Alexander Tracy Written by Herself" she states that Dominicus Carter's brother William's wife Hannah Cordelia was buried at the Carterville Cemetery and that Dominicus' wife (and surely the baby) were buried there too by the side of Nancy's baby boy.
Carterville was one of the "Winter Quarter" settlements near what is now Council Bluffs, and upwards of 200 Mormon pioneers were buried in its cemetery. After the exodus of the pioneers to Utah, the cemetery fell into disrepair and was eventually forgotten. It has now been located - in a farmer's field. See the newspaper article about Carterville cemetery, in the Salt Lake Tribune, 18 October 1902, page 9.
http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/sltrib22/id/147503
"Family legend, handed down by word of mouth through some four or five generations, tells us that when Sophronia's child was to be born a doctor could not be found. Not even an experienced midwife was available to aid her in the delivery of the child at the makeshift campsite on the plains... Apparently it was not a normal parturition for it is retold that as the pain and agony became more intense and unbearable Sophronia clutched the spokes of a wagon wheel and braced herself with all of her waning strength, screaming uncontrollably during the ordeal. The hemorrhage could not be stopped and she died as a few family members stood by helpless. She and her unamed child were buried in an unmarked grave on the lonely Iowa prairie beside the Carter wagon wheel tracks."
The account in the Carter book is not entirely correct. Domninicus Carter was living in Carterville at the time of Sophronia's death, and there is a first-hand account of her burial there:
In a journal entry from Nancy Naomi Alexander Tracy found in "Life History of Nancy Naomi Alexander Tracy Written by Herself" she states that Dominicus Carter's brother William's wife Hannah Cordelia was buried at the Carterville Cemetery and that Dominicus' wife (and surely the baby) were buried there too by the side of Nancy's baby boy.
Carterville was one of the "Winter Quarter" settlements near what is now Council Bluffs, and upwards of 200 Mormon pioneers were buried in its cemetery. After the exodus of the pioneers to Utah, the cemetery fell into disrepair and was eventually forgotten. It has now been located - in a farmer's field. See the newspaper article about Carterville cemetery, in the Salt Lake Tribune, 18 October 1902, page 9.
http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/sltrib22/id/147503
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