The company arrived here at Black’s Fork on July 9. Daniel Lantz had been ill for several days, but on July 10 his condition was so much worse that the company agreed to stop “until there was change in him for better or worse.” They camped all that day and the next. The dying man was tended by the company’s doctor, Dr. David S. Evans of Boston, who did not believe that Lantz could live another morning.

James Seaton of Centerville recorded the death of Daniel Lantz in his diary entry for July 12, 1850: “Mr. Lantz is still alive but insensible. He lived until 9 1/2 o’clock A.M. When he was no more he was buried at sunset near the road in a very decent manner. His grave was marked by a neat stone. His disease was the bloody flux. There are 10 more get the same disease but none serious.”

Daniel Lantz left a wife, Mary, and five children behind in Indiana to mourn their loss. The Centerville company reached Johnson’s Ranch near Hangtown in the California goldfields on September 15.