First Known Death in Sessions Settlement
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N 40° 52.479 W 111° 54.024
12T E 424131 N 4525232
The first known death in Sessions Settlement, now called Bountiful, occurred in 1849.
Waymark Code: WMBRAQ
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 06/16/2011
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The Daughters of Utah Pioneers marker reads:
In the early summer of 1849 the first known death occurred in Sessions's Settlement and this plot was selected as a cemetery. Nearly a score of people including pioneers, Indians, and a California Emigrant (whose headstone is on opposite side of monument.) were buried here. Later sub-irrigation caused the settlers to locate a new cemetery. This spot unites in common brotherhood the Indians, the Mormon Pioneers and other emigrants, who died in the conquering of the West.
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