Cutler's Park: Death of Sarah Ann Ashton

 Sarah Ann Barlow Ashton was a Martin handcart pioneer.  She had walked across most of Iowa pregnant, about 300 miles starting at Iowa City.  After reaching Winter Quarters they had a brief respite as they re-outfitted.  They travelled only a short distance the first day out of Omaha, reaching Cutler's Park.  The diary of John Jaques documents the death of Sarah Barlow Ashton in Cutler's Park.  Cutler's Park had been a Mormon settlement during the winter of 1846 and is only a couple miles from Winter's Quarters.  Sarah Ann passed away in childbirth,  The baby, named Sarah Ann Ashton, would only live a couple weeks and died on the plains of Nebraska.

I visited Cutler's Park this last summer.  The plaques are at the corner of Mormon Bridge Road and Young Street, just west of the Winter Quarters Temple.  The plaques talk about the story from 1846.  There is a large cemetery there now, but the Cutler's Park cemetery is on private land, and you have to get special permission to visit.  The plaque includes the list of those buried there from the winter of 1846-47.  There is n mention of Sarah Aston who died in 1856.