| Show EPHRAIM PIONEER CEMETERY John Olsen Ephraim Utah Senior Division First Place Tie Historical Essay Ephraimold Pioneer Cemetery was located where it because of an Indian attack The day was late in March is 1854 during funeral the Walker procession War taking the white man to die in Ephraim City Cemetery for interment in Because the north of this part of few heavy body of Mane to the then wagons were Warring in the abandoned first Spring alert the corpse was buried somewhere what has become the Ephraim Pioneer Cemetery which is located two miles north of Ephraim west of Highway 89 Here the land slopes gently to both south and west The soil is fine impervious clay very hard when dry and almost impassable when wet From 1854 to 1859 the population of Ephraim wascosmopolitan group of people those who meant to stay those bent on returning to Mt Pleasant Spring City etc and those just waiting with no destination in mind During this period Ephraim The graveyard Gobblefield proved were they the and residents divided the land near the adjacent land now known as classified were right as not However worth 24 dividing five-acre distance west northwest of the graveyard were be irrigated by waters from Pigeon Hollow lots set Timeshort apart to By 1880 there were about 35 miles of pole fences in the Ephraim precinct yet the Pioneer graveyard was never fenced with poles Instead it remained public domain during this early period few cemetery Tots were enclosed with picket fences and in almost every instance the gate was padlocked The to the keep Pioneer south artistic Peeled to the ground inch 1x4 out Cemetery plus were barbed cedar people fenced wire posts with fences with about some ever their tops four acres immediately of the first and built in beveled Sanpete at five most County feet were spaced about eight feet apart one board was nailed onto the beveled post and BPc above by foursimi |
