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Bennett, Wallace Foster b. December 13, 1898 d. December 19, 1993
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I, U.S. Senator from Utah, 1951-1973, 1974-1975.
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Bennion, Mervyn Sharp b. May 5, 1887 d. December 7, 1941
World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Mervyn Sharp Bennion was Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. West Virginia when it was hit by the Japanese in thier suprise attack on December 7, 1941. His CMOH citation reads: For conspicuous devotion to duty, extraordinary courage, and complete disregard of his own life, above and beyond the call of duty, during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, by Japanese forces on 7 December 1941. As Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. West Virginia...[Read More] (Bio by: Soorus)
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Plot: West-3-148-1-Cent
Bernhisel, John Milton b. July 23, 1799 d. September 28, 1881
Delegate to U.S. Congress from Utah Territory, 1851-1859, 1861-1863.
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Caine, John Thomas b. January 8, 1829 d. September 20, 1911
US Congressman. Born in the Isle of Man, he immigrated to the United States in 1846 and lived in New York City until he settled in the Territory of Utah as a teacher in 1852. He served as Secretary of the Utah Territorial Council for sessions from 1856 to 1882 and was recorder of Salt Lake City, 1876 to 1882. In 1882, he was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses and on the People's Party ticket to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses, serving...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Cannon, George Quayle b. January 11, 1827 d. April 12, 1901
Religious Leader. Born in Liverpool, England, his father became aware of the Mormon Gospel when his sister, Leonora Cannon, with her husband and future president of the church, John Taylor, was baptized by Parley P. Pratt in 1836. Four years later, John Taylor, while on a mission in England, baptized George Q. and his family. George's mother died during their emigration to Nauvoo in America. Two years after the family's arrival in Nauvoo, George's father also died. In 1849 he served a Mission...[Read More] (Bio by: Chad Stowell)
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Christmas Box Angel Statue [memorial]
The Christmas Box Angel Statue is dedicated to all parents who have lost a child. The statue was commissioned by Richard Paul Evans, author of "The Christmas Box," to help parents seeking a place to grieve.
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Plot: The angel is NW of the 330 N & Center St. intersection
Clawson, Rudger Judd b. March 12, 1857 d. June 21, 1943
Religious Leader. President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. With the continued publication of anti-Mormon literature the missionaries of the Church were sorely abused, especially in the Southern States, where many of them were stripped, tied to trees and brutally beaten by mobs. On the 21st of July, 1878, Elders Joseph Standing, and Rudger Clawson, a youth of twenty-two, were surrounded by a mob at Varnal Station, Georgia, and were taken...[Read More] (Bio by: Chad Stowell)
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Cutler, John Christopher b. February 5, 1846 d. July 30, 1928
Governor of Utah, 1905-09. In 1904, he defeated Republican Governor Heber M. Wells, Democrat James H. Moyle, American Party William M. Ferry, and Socialist Joseph A. Kaufman. While in term a bill was pasted requiring all births and deaths be registered with the State board of Health. A state juvenile court system was established in dealing with juvenile offenders. Cutler vetoed a bill funding county road construction. Growing popularity of the American Party and the loss of support from his own...[Read More] (Bio by: Imagine)
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Fletcher, James b. June 5, 1919 d. December 22, 1991
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Administrator. NASA's fourth administrator, serving two terms. Many of NASA's greatest triumphs occurred during his first tenure (1971 to 1977), such as the Viking missions (the first spacecraft to land on Mars), as well as the first missions to the outer planets, Pioneer 10 and 11, the launchings of the Voyager spacecraft and the first joint U.S./Soviet space mission, the Apollo Soyuz Test Project. Fletcher
was appointed to a second term (1986...[Read More]
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Friberg, Arnold b. December 21, 1913 d. July 1, 2010
Painter. A realist who specialized in historical and religious subjects, he is probably best remembered for his 1975 portrait of George Washington, "The Prayer at Valley Forge". Raised in Arizona from age three, he was employed as a sign painter in his teens and then trained at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Moving to New York City in 1940, he studied at the Grand Central School of Art, where his fellow students included Norman Rockwell. During World War II Friberg served with the 86th...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Grant, Heber Jeddy b. November 22, 1856 d. May 14, 1945
Seventh President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The only son of Jedediah M. Grant, faithful Apostle and friend to the Prophet Joseph Smith. Twice prophesied of concerning his future roll as an Apostle, once by Eliza R. Snow while speaking in tounges and later by Apostle Heber C. Kimball in a public meeting, and at the age of twenty-two was ordained a High Priest, and at twenty-six called to the Apostleship. He served as President of the Church for twenty-six years. It was...[Read More] (Bio by: Chad Stowell)
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Grant, Jedediah Morgan b. February 21, 1816 d. December 1, 1856
Salt Lake City Mayor. Grant served as the Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, from 1851 to 1856. (Bio by: K)
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Henriod, F. Henri b. January 26, 1905 d. September 9, 1986
F. Henri Henriod (Frederick Henri) was the Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1963 to 1967 and again from 1975 to 1976. He also served as Associate Justice from 1951 to 1963 and from 1967 to 1975. He was the son of Frederick Augustus Henriod and Selena Greenwood. He used his middle name to differentiate him from his father. He married Wilma Ellen Savage April 28, 1933 in American Fork, Utah. He was admitted to the Utah state bar after he graduated from Harvard University Law School...[Read More] (Bio by: Beeswax)
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Plot: UK46167 (double deep)
Hinckley, Gordon Bitner b. June 23, 1910 d. January 27, 2008
Mormon Church Leader. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he was the 15th president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Beginning in 1995 he led the church through a period of significant international expansion and made its giant collection of genealogical records available to the world via the world wide web as a means to help spread the Mormon faith. A marked change from prior leadership, he was known for embracing the news media to promote understanding of the church and was...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
Cause of death: Natural causes
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Hunter, Howard William b. November 14, 1907 d. March 3, 1995
Fourteenth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. President Hunter has always been note worthy of humility and Christlike living. WHile on a train ride with Elder Neal A. Maxwell, who woke up from a short nap to find President Hunter (then in the Quorum of the Twelve) kneeled at his side shining the younger and recently ordained Apostle's shoes hoping not to get caught. After his first wife Clair died, President Hunter's own health began to deteriorate, going through...[Read More] (Bio by: Chad Stowell)
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Jarvis, Frederick b. 1841 d. April 8, 1894
Indian Campaigns Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Sergeant in the United States Army in Company G, 1st U.S. Cavalry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on October 20, 1869 at Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona Territory. His citation reads "Gallantry in action." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Jennings, William b. 1823 d. 1886
Salt Lake City Mayor. Jennings served as the Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, from 1882 to 1885. (Bio by: K)
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Kimball, Jonathan Golden b. June 9, 1853 d. September 2, 1938
Mormon Church Religious Leader. One of the most colorful and beloved of the General Authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was one of the First Seven Presidents of Seventies, and son of Apostle Heber C. Kimball. He became best known for his unique speaking abilities he had picked up during his wild years as a drover and cattleman, which came to the fore to the embarassment of some and the amusement of many. Many a "hell" and "damn" came from his lips during the stake...[Read More]
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Kimball, Spencer Woolley b. March 28, 1895 d. November 5, 1985
Twelvth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Grandson of Heber C. Kimball, Spencer's marker is in part petrified wood, reminiscent of his Arizona youth. With the high anxiety and stress of the Apostlic mantle he bore he carried boils throughout his body the majority of his life. He also had a heart attack in which future Apostle Russell M. Nelson permormed a "perfect operation," which he described as a miricle in itself, and rare for a surgeon to experience in a...[Read More] (Bio by: Chad Stowell)
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
King, William Henry b. June 3, 1863 d. November 27, 1949
US Senator.
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA

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