First Person Buried in the Smithfield Cemetery
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Ira Elias Merrill was the first person buried in the Smithfield Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMJNP1
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 12/09/2013
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Erected 1958 by Smithfield Camp SUP
In Memory Of
Ira Elias Merrill, first person buried in the Smithfield Cemetery, was born at Alder, Erie County, New York, in 1835, the son of Austin and Laura Walder Harris Merrill. He was killed in an Indian attack July 23, 1860 as he and his brother Solyman were returning from the hills east of Smithfield with a load of brush to be used on the bowery for the community Pioneer Day celebration. Hostilities between the Pioneers and the Indians began near the site of this marker. A settler from Franklin, Idaho was also killed in the skirmish and several Smithfield Pioneers were wounded.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 07/26/1860
More Information - Web URL: Not listed
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