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Show y -i, , , -,. "5 - i - 'SV $ . r ') t ' ") k " . ' ' ". , """""--- 4 ,- -"'' -t. , x ., ,; v.- :, " t - " ''. ';',-.;,. -., j , ' " " . - , , ' ' 1 ' '" ' f i '. . ' '- ' a. . Cedar City Jaycees spent Saturday and Sunday making pickups of rubbish of this type as a climax to the week-long week-long Clean-up, Paint-up and Fix-up campaign. Lester Hey-borne Hey-borne chairman of the event reports a most successful drive. Three trucks operated for two days to haul off the accumulated rubbish on the curb. A few private lots were also cleared by the group in the clean-up drive. MUTE EVIDENCE OF PIONEER SPIRIT Of the thousands of vacationists vacation-ists who stream annually into Zion National Park in Southern Utah, it is doubtful if even a handful visit the lonely abandoned aband-oned little Mormon cemetery that stands nearby in silent tribute to the hardiness and fortitude of the pioneers who settled the rugged rug-ged country. Half hidden by sage and cacti and marked by tumbling wooden wood-en fences, the cemetery is adjacent ad-jacent to the ghost town of Grafton a few miles from the comforts of Zion Lodge. Bus drivers of Union Pacific Railroad's Utah Parks Company point out Grafton on the far side of the Virgin River to their Zion Park passengers, commenting on its use by Hollywood studios for the production of such western west-ern epics as Ramrod and Arizona Arizo-na Kid. But even they are unaware una-ware of the little plot of ground harboring the remains of Indian fighters and other pioneers since as early as 1862. Tales of the cemetery told in the nearby community of Rock-ville Rock-ville are hearsay, and church leaders there believe the records have been sent to file In Salt Lake City. However, the only cemetery record rec-ord in the office of the historian histor-ian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is that of a nine year old boy, Joseph Field, who died February 5, 1862. There are perhaps 30 graves in the cemetery, most of them unmarked. Of the remaining headstones, some are so worn by time and weather as to be unreadable. un-readable. The most dramatic story of the cemetery is told by the white stone column of the three Ber-rys: Ber-rys: "Killed by Indians, April 2, 1886." Among the first victims of the bloody Black Hawk war, the Berrys were buried three years before the driving of the Golden Spike In northern Utah linked Union Pacific and Central Pacific as the first transcontinental transcon-tinental railroad. According to best authority, Robert Berry, 25, his wife, Isabel, Isa-bel, 19, and his brother Joseph, 22, were traveling by wagon from Short Creek, Ariz., to their home at Berryville, Utah, when they were ambushed in a draw by Indians. One Indian was shot, but the savage Paiutes brought down one of the team. Joseph Berry freed the remaining horse and attempted attemp-ted to ride away but was toppled in a shower of arrows. The Indians closed in and captured cap-tured Robert and Isabel, an expectant ex-pectant mother. Robert was tied to a wheel of his wagon and forced to "watch as the maddened Indians shot arrows ar-rows into Isabel and laughed as the plucky girl tried to pull them out. Then the helpless husband hus-band was stilled by a third vol- jt& .. : "f-; : Jt . ' .v, , ."v ' h V ,i. n : , ' ' , . . . - . i T- --i j ! t ! - , f i 1 . v ; ). . . y.',':' ' ! ' ...... ' ' . - ' ' Scarred by blowing sand, wind and moisture, these ancient tombstones tomb-stones stand In a row In a lonely and abandoned Mormon cemetery near the entrance to Zion National Park, Utah. The fence In the background encloses the graves of three members of the Berry family who were massacred near Short Creek, Ariz., by warring Indians. ley of arrows that ended the massacre. The Berry incident was follow-ed follow-ed by countless raids and counter-raids involving soldiers, settlers set-tlers and friendly Paiutes on one side and Navajos and warring Paiutes on the other. The internecine strife ceased in 1874, but after nearly a century cen-tury the question still, remains of how many of the unmarked graves in Grafton cemetery cover the remains of arrow and torn-hawk torn-hawk victims of that remote and unsung war. |
