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    1. Re: [HANDCART-L] Utah Pioneer Grave Markers
    2. taz taz
    3. ardis I think i know where there is another cemetery that may need some of the stickers to and it is the old Ephriam cemetery. I was down there around memorial day and i dont recall seeing any of the stickers. Its called the old pioneer cemetery. When the new one was built though, some of the families dug up their families and reburied them in the new cemetery. This happened in 1910 and the old one was forgotten about. I found it by accident whilie i was visiting the new one, thinking that it was the original cemetery. Alot of headstones are destroyed but there are alot that aren't. if any one knows of any family that is buried in that cemetery they want to know the family and find out where they are buried be cause some of the headstones are gone now and they are trying to get it cleaned up and presentable and it is taking a long time to do this because of the lack of intrest or just the lack of knowlegde that it is there. I had no idea that it was there and i did find family there. I had the address that you could write to and inqurie about the cemetery and when i find it i will post it if any one is interested. Jackie Carter Tazzy@enol.com AEParshall@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 08/03/98 8:49:59 AM, Durfee_Lynda@tmac.com wrote: > > > I'd like to honor these pioneers (once I > >locate the graves), and wonder if anyone has suggestions for going about > >accomplishing this without personally visiting the graves. Several are > buried > >in the Salt Lake City Cemetery in the paupers section and probably don't even > >have a headstone. > > As you identify the cemeteries, you could post messages here asking if anybody > lives close enough to affix the marker for you, perhaps. > > As for unmarked graves, I wonder how many cemeteries have a stone like the one > at Marysvale, Piute, Utah: Beneath the flagpole at the entrance to the > cemetery, there is a large fieldstone where small plaques have been affixed to > remember persons known to be buried in the cemetery when the exact grave > locations have been lost. These plaques are the small ones provided by > mortuaries as temporary grave markers, but they have been mounted permanently > to the fieldstone. > > Now that I've written that, I wonder if I'm mistaken and those names are those > of veterans buried there... > > In any case, I'll bet a lot of cemeteries have such a marker, or a wall where > such a plaque could be affixed. Would be worth contacting the individual > cemeteries to ask, wouldn't it? > > Good luck. You've got a big project, and I hope that we would all be willing > to help you if you identify a grave in a cemetery nearby. > > Ardis > AEParshall@aol.com

    08/04/1998 07:46:57