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Show IV. CEMETERIES Midvale claims two cemeteries: the old Pioneer or Indian Burial Ground Cemetery in front of the U.S. Smelter, behind the row of Smelter homes on North Holden Street and the present Locust Street. of landfrom James Wardle for Lind city cemetery located on ward cemetery. Niels 1905. The Pioneer Cemetery had been an Indian burial ground. The pioneers used it in early days and many people were buried there. Tea plants or matrimony vines was marked off the northern and southern boundaries and Roman Catholic iris bloomed there. It bian Orthodox Church for $500. was a appointed sexton, a job he held until 1923 without pay. Joseph B. Wright paid Christine Amun dsen $25.00 for building a roadway into the cemetery in was estimated that the An acre of ground in the northeast corner of the plat sold to the Catholic Church in 1916 for burial pur poses for $500. In August 1918, an acre adjoining the original was about 170' by 100'. Ten years ago, small mounds of earth showed where bodies had been buried. Some monuments marked family plots including one at piece on the west was sold to the Ser cemetery In Ward (the East Jordan Ward), the balance of the old section of the cemetery, Plat A and Plat B, approximately 2 acres for $100. The next year placed by Harmon Cutler descendants. Agnis McGregor Cutler, young widow of Harmon Cutler, appealed to the U.S. Smelter to respect that plot of ground. They did and routed their railroad tracks around it and gave employees instructions that no rub bish was to. be placed there. During Casper Nelson's administration the broken board fence was replaced with steel fence posts connected with wire cable. the north end city purchased balance of the ground, $1,500. the Niels Lind was appointed sexton in 1923 and serv capacity until January 3, 1924 when the newly elected City -council decided that the city recorder and street supervisor should assume the duties of sexton. This proved impractical so on January 17, 1924, the council appointed Clifford I. Goff as sexton until January 4, 1926, when Thomas J. Forman was appoint not to accept ed. Other sextons had moved away and could not be contact ed. So, the Pioneer Cemetery remained the resting place for quite a number. It is understood that some In the offer or and Martha Ford Drake on came were Thomas Wiles and Ben Thomas. In 1930, Father McGuire, of the Midvale-Murray Catholic Church, asked that the city buy some property dians were 'also buried in this cemetery. Edward 6.59 acres, for ed in this About 1906, the Smelter offered to pay for removal of the bodies to other cemeteries. Some relatives took ad vantage of this offer, but others decided 1923, the city council purchased from the Midvale Ec clesiastical Sixth Avenue adjoining the cemetery from them. The matter was taken under advisement. from On June 20, 1939, at the Council Meeting, Mayor Hollis Aylett reported that the Serbian Church asked if the city accept the land north of the Midvale Cemetery as a continuation of the cemetery. The Serbian Church would keep the plot to the east as their cemetery. The council appreciated this offer which gave them an en trance to the north of the cemetery from Sixth Avenue. Kingston, England to West Jordan around 1874. Their children were Ellen, George and Edward Jr. Martha Ann Drake died December 10, 1876 and was buried in the Indian-Pioneer cemetery the same day. would The following is a list of some of those originally buried and left in the Pioneer Cemetery: Harmon Cutler, son of Samuel and CordelIa Youngs; Elizabeth Shields Cutler, wife of Harmon Cutler; Samuel Brad ford Cutler, son of Harmon Cutler; Clorinda Culter It is said that the area between both sets of railroad tracks, including where the present cemetery is located, was owned by Peterson Malstrom who donated the land for the cemetery and he was the first person buried there, having been decapitated in a train ac Raymond, wife of Alonzo P. Raymond; Elna Jacobsen Neilsen, grandmother of Carl Jenson; Elna Jenson; and James of son Mary Glover, Hyrum Glover; Herbert, Sarah Ellen, Iris Mable and Ethel May Glover, children of Joseph and Ellen W. Glover; Margaret Craig, mother of Jane C. Shields; George Shields; Mariam Shields; Joseph Shields; Mary (?) Shields; Ester Arica Ulrica Mineer, daughter of An drew and Maria Mineer; Hans Christian Hansen, uncle or cident. Originally the cemetery was enclosed with a wire fence and had many wooden markers. In April 1937, the Mid-Flora Garden Club and Midvale city removed this fence and planted lilacs around the cemetery as well as planting grass, trees, vines; and bulbs. Those interred are from many denominations and nationalities. it is well cared for and respected as a sacred place. of Effie Hobbs was organized in 1895 Hyrum Goff as Bishop, they purchased 10.59 acres After the East Jordan Ward with Anita and Mary Hyke 12J. |
