| Show burying UND the place of the doad kindrea of many cinto cor I 1 quew t to some of tile saints v aich I 1 hope YOU will give a in your columns about three years ago our in loved and late president john ta lor sent line a letter that wa 9 aritte 11 43 mr A C white of I 1 ow w 10 tile land where 0 nee wits a set of tile saints called by them gah 11 here they hada reding ili their flight from nau in 1840 ile asked president taylor 10 tile alit to remains of their friends who were buried toro whito stated that the burying ground was in tile center of ilia farm anti that lie hall sacredly as such lor went into exile abbat the time ito rece ivell mr whites letter and it nas impractical to for him to keep up a correspondence with ir white when tient the letters to me lie cent certain in aich havo been carried out that the hurrying g round is owned by the latter day saints ono acre abid is well fenced J ohn and the present ilig authority of tile church have seen fit to mark the burry log ground at aith special signs of love and respect for their brethren who were left there b tile hand of death bo baw mr I 1 bait made it possible his father bought g a largo trat t zif land embracing I gali voon after tile saints leff there ile became owner of tile laude after tha death ef hits father and about tile time the coun ry became settled permanently tit be grow up to most upon the very place u here sorrowing hearts bathed the roil with burning fears for loved ones bur led there tinder the moet dietr Ming cir and for tha pot of earth conceio RF ada respect sacred not been blotted out knitli the bustling scenes 0 f a bust life but 1143 ma aured and brought forth fruits in man hood to the joy of souls that never forget ile ner 44 i lie earth to be iu little t mounds so closely cluttered together until it has grown up to hazel brush hickory and oak trees scattered about the despised cormons mormons Mor mons hato been compelled missouri illinois Illin and lown with graveyards besides hundreds of graves 1 by tile wayside and never until now have I 1 heard of a ay iy inan of the many thousands who have come after us to our homes and got nession of tile last resting place f on r loved dead who ian risked if we to mark those ties of the dearl for our children to drop a lear upon air etite tells me that lie domeni bers feeding feeing fe eing I 1 n his boyhood ono and the only complete gravestone with tile name of william huntington chis clod upon it that was tha grave of my father wid that stone disappeared very many years ago to make stories for the incoming inhabitants it daine from the bed of grand I 1 near b the fettle mound of earth by m aich stood that stone is now hobt mii aig the many others that are only grassy knolls it may be a consolation to some tile reads this to know of tile ol lowing statement w I 1 tie I 1 me by mr white ile says ta fl re is a ye with I 1 L 11 two 1 eton 0 oil anig i V I 1 I 1 initials if S on each stone n when I 1 first saw it it m as fenced d with ill he ile wn pasts and split slabs the I 1 gravo was a rounded up anti is till still in I 1 good g d shape this grato is pio pro kiy ally the it can be recognized c c by I 1 last fall a foundation of ro rock four feet square cultic culI ic was laid lit the earth near the center of tile buryin 9 ground which in the coming spring willbe placed a marble monument twelve feet high which has been c contracted for I 1 believe upon condition of my approval and from tile drawing sent moil am well pleased with shaft is 9 or 11 upon the na 0 of 0 very gerwit buried abere will be engraved that Is I 1 the living friends will send their names plainly written and correctly spelled to 91 V ille utan before the middle of ne at march 0 B january 6 1893 gleaso copy I 1 |
