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Show Starling Driggs Monument To Be Dedicated An Imposing monument will be installed by the relatives of Starling Graves Driggs at his grave In the Parowan City cemetery ceme-tery on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, it is annonuced in a communication com-munication from members of the ' Graves family. The ceremonies are slated to be held at 10 a. m. that day. Memorial services will be held for this Utah Pioneer of 1847 at the time of the completion of the monument. His name is on the Brigham Young Monument in Salt Lake City as one of the original orig-inal ' 147 persons who first entered en-tered -the valley of the Great Salt Lake! He is an uncle of Howard R. Driggs and a great uncle of H. Wayne Driggs, late director of the College of Southern South-ern Utah. Driggs performed a number of important missions for the L D S Church. He was a member of the Parley P. Pratt scouting party which left Salt Lake City and explored ex-plored the vast territory to the south, even as far as San Bernardino, Bernar-dino, Calif., where he later went as a first settler to that place. When the San Bernardino colony col-ony was called back to Utah! at the coming of Johnson's army he and his good wife, Sarah Rogers Rog-ers Driggs, a native of Parowan, retuned here to make their home. He was injured in a threshing machine accident in the fall of 18G0 and died on Dec. 3 of that year. A number of the relatives and friends of Starling Graves Driggs are expected to be In Parowan to participate in this memorial service. ser-vice. It is announced that Dr. William Wil-liam R. Palmer of Cedar City will be a speaker, also F. C. Van Bu-ren Bu-ren of Parowan, and there will be musical numbers and a short biography bi-ography of the life of this man. Everyone is invited to attend this memorial service for this pioneer. Preparations for the event are in the hands of Hugh L. Adams, whom the Driggs family contacted contact-ed through the local chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers. Under his supervision a concrete base has been placed for the monument monu-ment which will be located on the north side of the city cemetery. |