Show AB ancient mormon cemetery DES MOINES la nov 17 about two miles from taline union county iowa is an old lormon cemetery which is all that is left of the old mormon set tle mentin several hundred mor mons remained there during the latter pait of ati at year and all of 1847 it was wlad mount pi abah but was finally and the survivors pushed on td salt lake but their dead tv ere left mil i lie graves remained unmarked until tao years QUO when a plain monument about eight feet high was erected it bears this inscription this monument erected in u memory of thosa members if th church of jesus christ of latter day sainta who died in 47 48 during llie exodus to seek a home beyond ali rocky mountains buried here is william first presiding elder of alio temporary settlement of lodini P ewh then follow the names of axtt others and it is said that three ie buried there but there is no surface sign of a single grave all being grown oyer by hazel brush and grass the little burying ground is on a hillside sloping to the west overlooking the valley of a email stream where cattle graze and flowers bloom in their season the grounds are enclosed by a wire fence and forms a portion of a farm omaha bee |