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Show This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _--.;:G=RA ~F ~T "_'O ~ N HERITAGE PARTNERSmp PROJECT Grafton News Fall 2015 Thanks to funds provided by the Utah Division of State History's matching grant program and the Town of Rockville, funds were used to complete work on the Russell Home. Repair work included new wood roof shingles on the south side of the home and lathe and plaster replacement on walls and ceilings in two bedrooms on the main floor. In addition, adobe walls and foundation repairs have been completed on the schoolhouse and thanks to Washington County exterior wood on the schoolhouse has been painted. We thank our many partners for their continued support. <;rClf:oll\, stortes We wanted to share these stories WIth you, one story is from Colby Gower who returned John York' s grave marker to the Grafton Cemetery, he wrote: "As for my history of the York family, I have none - I literally found this grave marker while out walking through the forest one day and it plagued me that it seemed like it didn't belong there. I personaily had been to Grafton as a chiid many years ago and remembered the distinct last name of York from there, so I put two and two together, did some research and found that this grave marker I had found west of Cedar City belonged in Grafton Cemetery almost like John York was reaching out to me to correct this wrong." "How it got to the valley west of Cedar I'll probably never know - it seems more like a bother to move it than it would be worth as a prank or even just malicious behavior this just seems so out of the ordinary. Someone literally went out of their way to move a grave marker to a remote location west of Cedar City. Its appearance right next to the others in Grafton cemetery was unique - all the other matching York wooden grave markers there were darker in color, probably due to the nature of that little valley as it surely gets no snow and very little rain, but here in Cedar, it was likely covered with snow several times in the years it was missing, and also sun-bleached too as its color is definitely lighter than the others. Anyway, I'm glad to have found its rightful resting place and to have been the person to have brought it home." - Colby |
