There were two deaths along the Platte River and here on the Hamsfork Plateau. Nancy Jane Hill, second eldest of the six children of Wesley and Elizabeth Hill, died of cholera, July 5, 1852, age twenty years.

Nancy’s Uncle, James Hill, wrote: “She was in good health on Sunday evening taken unwell that knight worst in the morning and a corps at nine o’clock at knight.”

On the Forty Mile desert in Nevada Nancy’s father, Wesley Hill, died August 24, 1852, and was buried at Ragtown at the Carson River.

The Hill train settled in Soscol Valley, Napa County in California.

Legend has it that Nancy Jane’s fiance returned three times over a period of 53 years to tend the grave.