Show am ha memorial day services were held at the city cemetery at 5 p in m wed the cemetery grounds had bad been cleared up better than for some years and graves had been decorated with lowers flowers etc the graves of war veterans including those of mor mon battalion and indian war veter ans were decorated with national flags services commenced with singing by the ladles ladies chorus followed by prayer by the chaplain B jarvia jarvis sr dr sam bleak gave a cornet solo sometime somewhere mayor albert E miller gave a talk on our indian war veterans and noted dead he paid a glowing trib ute to those men who were willnia to take their lives in their hands in order to make it possible for settlers to make homes here without whom it would have been impossible to have stayed here he stated that out of the original band of men 3 women and 2 children who came to utah tour four are burled buried in this aeme tery namely addison everett wil liagin carter the man mart who plowed the first furrow in utah william empey and george woodward mormon battalion veterans burled buried in this cemetery are rufus C alien allen david moss henry W bigler one of those present when gold was first dis covered in california at s mill samuel miles john watts william carpenter und and elijah thorn thom as indian war veterans col agus P hardy major james andrus and dr james whitmore other noted dead who helped to make dixie of the original band ol 01 pioneers to utah orson pratt erastus urastus snow william vance and conrad kleynman Klel of mormon bat tallon lorenzo clark jacob M trueman james pace face haden W church who died in the mission bald and was buried in his native town and edward bunker other noted dead miles romney lydia knight widow of newell knight and mother of jesse knight angus M cannon jacob gates rob ert gardner richard bentley john M macfarlane robert C lund thomas judd and daniel D me arthur A beautiful solo was given by miss mary atkin elder geo E miles told of the mormon battalion and of the great march made by them the greatest in history through a trackless des ert on which they suffered untold hardships and overcame all obstacle cleF in opening a highway from east to west they tur ed in the money ob bained for their services to the church greatly helping those much in need the speaker paid a very high trib ute to the veterans of the civil war and their great services to humanity in reuniting this country under one great flag bag we should always re member with gratitude their noble services and not be niggardly in our treatment of those who are left and their widows vernon church spoke of the spanish american and world wai waz veterans both these a mars were en into in behalf of humanity said the speaker he ile paid tribute to two of the veterans of the spanish ai eri can war lying in this cemetery wal ter fullerton Pul lerton and lorenzo bryson and to those of tha the world war les ter keate and D L mcnell mcneil who gave their lives to help establish the rights of mankind benediction was pronounced by the chaplain after which taps I 1 were sounded by dr sam bleak |