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Show Family Erects U.cniiniesit Honoring Pioneer ' The memory of Peter Maughan, leader of the first band of permanent per-manent white settlers to inhabit Cache Valley, will be honored August 2, at 10 a. m. with the unveiling of a monument in his honor in Logan city cemetery and , with the biennial Maughan family reunion on the Logan senior high school campus at 2 n. m., family association officials announced Wednesday. The pioneer Cache Valley leader's lead-er's decendents now number in excess of 1500, and a large percentage per-centage is expected to be on hand for the ceremonies and the re-unior. re-unior. .Monument of Granite Twelve girls representing the 1 branches of the Peter Maughan family will participate in the unveiling ceremonies, and H. C. Maughan, last surviving son of the pioneer, will pronounce the dedicatory prayer. George Albert Smith, member of the IDS council coun-cil of twelve apostles, will review the life of Peter Maughan, a Pioneer Leader." The monument has been erected over the grave of the original pioneer. It is constructed of Utah granite 48 by 90 by 12 inches. A bronze plaque 32 by 46 inches is mounted on the face of the stone. The plaque bears the bust relief of Peter Maughan and a background back-ground of mountains and a wagon train entering. Cache Valley. On the plaque is the following inscription: in-scription: Here's Inscription "Erected to the memory of Peter Maughan, pionvr leader and cofounder of the settlements of Cache Valley, 1856; first president presi-dent and presiding bishop of the 'Cache Valley stake of Zion; first .probate judge of Cache county, j legislator, Indian mediator and friend. "Peter Maughan, 5on of William and Martha Walton Maughan, was born May 7, 1811, at Milton, Cumberland Cum-berland county, England. He join- ed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at Alston, England, Eng-land, in 1837, and immigrated to America in 1841. While at Nauvoo, 111., he worked on the temple, became be-came a member of the Nauvoo legion and engaged i mining for the church after crossing the plains to Utah in 1850 he settled in Tooele county and later led the first conlenists to Cache valley, where he established Maughan's fort, now Wellsville, and located other settlements. He died at Logan, April 24, 1871. This memorial, mem-orial, erected by his decendants, replaces in more enduring materials ma-terials a monument raised to his memory by the people of Cache valley." |