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Show Graft News Fall 2007 Graftoll 191 9 I V\,tey-p yetLve sLg V\,$ The signs and new expanded Victor Hall of Hurricane helped brochure are finished . We hope you with the editing along with many enjoy reading them the next time others. Jim Peters of you come to Grafton. We would Interpretative Graphics helped like to thank everyone who helped fabricate and will install the signs. in the projects. Photos came from We will install one sign near the schoolhouse and one at the the collections of Ron Morris , Glenna Frehner and Lynne Clark. cemetery as well as two side The signs and brochure were panels in the window of the designed by Sandy Bell of schoolhouse that will help bring Springdale and writer Greer Chesher Grafton' s history to life. of Rockville. Here is an excerpt from the cemetery sign. The cemetery information was researched by Ron Morris. In the four years after Grafton ' s founding in 1862, death came in its usual manner, taking the young, the sick, the old: Mary Lavina Andrus di ed at one year of age; Mary Jane York, 28, died of tuberculosis, Byron Lee Bybee, 65, died of "poor health." And there were accidents: Joseph C. Field, 9, was dragged to death by a horse. But when the year 1866 hit, the settlers must have wondered if their Heavenly Father had abandoned them. Thirteen people died in rapid succession, Jvww.graftonheritage.org We also, want to thank the George and Delores Dore' Eccles Foundation for funding these projects as well as the Division of State History through a Town of Rockville Certified Local Government matching grant and many other donors . Our web site was also updated with new information gathered from the sign and brochure projects. taken by epidemics, a tragic accident and by the fr iction caused when new folks rub up against old. Many headstones are mi ssing. It' s believed 74 to 84 graves exist. The Grafton Cemetery also includes Southern Paiute people who worked and lived alongside early settlers. |
