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Show Long-Time Residents Recall Cemetery History A renewed interest in the early history of Pleasant Grove seems to have been aroused by recent articles ar-ticles published in the Review in which interesting fact about our cemetery and about the old library li-brary building were recalled. In answer to inquiries as to whether our present cemetery is the first and only one, the following information in-formation has been submitted through the courtesy of Joseph H. Adams and other old settlers of the community. little boys were born later that month to Mr. and Mrs. William G. Sterritt, and Mr. and Mrs. George S. Clark. The Holman Child, John Dennis, lived only a short time, and was buried near the Price grave in the little hillside cemetery. Later Mr. Jolley was buried there also, but as no tombstone marks his grave, the exact date is not known. In August 1852, the first woman I to die in Pleasant Grove, Martha Jennings Adams, was buried there also. She was the first wife of William Wil-liam H. Adams, and the mother of John and William H. Adams, Jr. Later Mr. Adams married Frances Otten Crossland, the mother of Eliza Banks. Their son was Joseph H. Adams, now living in the community. com-munity. In the old cemetery which is now part of an old orchard on the upper up-per part of the Mons Monson home lot, a monument has been erected to Martha Jennings Adams, and to I her mother-in-law, Mary Nash Adams, Ad-ams, and her husband. William Henry Adams, who was buried beside be-side his wife, although at the time of his death, the old cemetery was no longer used as such. As the settlement grew, the old cemetery site seemed rather close to the residences, and further, the ground had proved so gravelly as to make digging very difficult, so the present site, was selected, at what appeared then to be a distant dis-tant and secluded spot from the town. It is believed that the first woman probably the first person to be buried in the new plot, was the great grandmother of Patriarch David B. Thome, Phylindi Carpenter Carpen-ter Clark, who died on' January 10, 1853. Early in October 1850, a few weeks after the first settlers came to Pleasant Grove, a tragic death occured to one of the first seven which included George Clark and wife, Susannah Dalley Clark, Richard Rich-ard Clark, and wife, Ann Elizabeth Sheffer Clark, John G. Holman and wife, Nancy Clark Holman, Lewis Harvey and wife and small son, Harriet Marler, a widow, and children, chil-dren, and her teamster Mr. Wilson; Ezekiel Holman, a boy of sixteen, who acted as teamster for Richard Rich-ard Clark. During the building of a log house for Charles Price, a log slipped and fell, killing the nine year old son of the Prices. The grief stricken little community looned about for a suitable place to bury the child, finally deciding on a plot of rocky ground on a sloping bit of country about two and a half blocks north of where the log houses of the little settlement were being built on the edge of the cottonwcod grove near where Joseph Dickerson's house now stands. Here the child was buried, and ' Pleasant Grove's first cemetery was begun October 1850. A year later, on September 2, 1851. the first child was born in the community to John G. and Nancy Clark Holman. Two other |
