Show I KNOW v UTAH Jf J By ALBERT T F F. PHILIPS I While lilIe on the 1 road ad d to yesterday n. n a Ut Utahn lin passed through an on OW that dl tit died d d. I h In 1 1848 a town In which all aU of ot Utah i Is Interested a a. town where an oft of l of or tho United States army arranged with the tIo chur chu church of Day Saints aint for o mento olin form the Mormon Morou Mormon battalion to cn engage a o in In tl members of which battalion m made mado da to o. o l said aid Jo to b bp bo tho longest t march or of an armed body of ot men in history These m in xi ri Int later r dh discovered co gold goldat at Sutter's mill in California and ud then returned to Salt lake JAko In tho the development de of t fan an empire This traveler eJer on tho the road rood to yesterday told old tho the following story which although happening In n another state 1 is still a a. local story in Know Utah Ut It Was printed in Wallace Farmer in Des Dei MoInes The monument the thc thieve e on tho the alone Drive down from DesMoInes toward Afton AHon plaY pIny lido bide and seek c k for irot ii a. a while vl In the tho Union county hillsand hillsand hills hills' and d you'll find It It 81 six miles northeast of t where whelo Afton Anon Is a now It site silo of pf tho first t white settle me nent t In Union coun county y S S 0 isn't a town anymore any Its It's a. a graveyard Some died cUed here on the way to the tho promised land No o house hom no foundation stone stones even cven remains to mark marc tho the village that sprang up in n 1846 and died In 1848 but a fow row stragglers stayed until 1852 S S S Southern Iowa was the scene I In 1 the lato late forties of ot one one of the most dramatic human migrations of or orall all 11 history Tho The Mormons with their prophet murdered mur mur- dered and Nauvoo City sacked lacked were pressing west to o build bund a n. new homo home in the the- desert Much of southern Iowa on a was wilderness then Stand on tho the ridge by bythe bytho the tho lio stone stono marker set up by the D. D A. A R. R and picture those hoso oxcarts those lumbering wagons drawn b by skinny kinny h horses as th they y slashed through creeks and came ame creaking nS Jolting to the tho to top of tho Jho ridge i S Tho hillside was timbered then Oak elm hickory j and sh block d the winter winds provided logs for tor cabins fuel for They may have havo leared cleared the tho ho graveyard first They needed It earl early Around those hoso new graves grav came up as come up over the tho old grav graves raves s today wild viM columbine harebell and the tho wild strawberry tra When spring came caine mothers picked the wild flowers lowers to In lay on the graves of or the tho winters winter's end dead nature and springtime send tho the sumo same flowers back ack toda today to decorate decorato graves of oC dead whose whoso very names are ale forgotten S S S sorrows are arc over They wore onoro I keen n then The record on tho the monument reminds us It was erected reeled in 1888 In memory of or those who wh died led during the 10 exodus How many dl died that first Winter we we wedo wedo do o not know nor how many times axes chipped shallow hallow graves in iii frozen t soil oll Spring came crops were cro put In somo of lot tho tue pilgrims went on toward the 10 west Oth Others rs' rs came came In to harvest tho the crops For Far ears years the tho camp mp was Wl maintained for three years yeu's ears death harvested to too Hero Here Iff IS' a record of or tho the dead Mrs Baldwin and baJ baby jaby No doctor Screams filling a a log cabin snow failing ailing outside presently quiet and a a. new grave Four allots are uro listed and then two other children I No Nomore Nomore more lore than thun that Had their lr parents been snatched from om them on that terrible night when Nauvoo 1 was as attacked Were they waifs of t the migration At least their bones bone lie hero here quiet at no m more re waking lit lii tho the dark to cry for a u. mother molher who cannot come no no more mOlO sobbing bobbing as as' as tho the winter wind ind bites through the rags S S S r r iowans drive half baIt wa way across the tho continent to toeo tos s see eo o where the pilgrim fathers spent their first hard years cars ars Yet in almost almos every Iowa Jowa county I Is the site ot of f some pioneer farm or village where hero history rivals that hat o of Plymouth in drama and human interest Drive out ut Jut this summer hummer and visit a n. few tew of or them You could do o worse than start with S S S There arc those who live Jive within a afew afe few miles of or orthis this ils historic Site bite who do not forget The Tho monument has hus HIS a. a a fence around it and tho the weeds are aie kept down It t Is a shrine for man many A |