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Show GRUESOME FIND OF ' OLD SOLDIERS' BONES Dry Farmers in Cedar Valley Plow Up the Bones Of Soldiers Who Came With Johnson's Army While plowing on his dry farm in Cedar Valley this week, Edward Southwick plowed up what presumably presum-ably is the bones or remains of two soldiers from Johnson's army. The remains were only about one and a half feet under the surface, but it is supposed that floods and erosin of time may have brought the graveB much nearer the surface than they were originally. The boxes, clothing, etc., had decayed entirely. Nothing remained except some of the bones and the nails at the corner of the coffins. The nails were those of the kind used sixty years ago. Mr. Southwick's farm includes Crittenden Bench, the exact location where Johnson s army camped for the first six months after coming to Utah in the spring of 1859. During . this time several of the soldiers died and it is presumed that it is some of these soldiers that were plowea up. Early settlers relate the story that while camped here, one of the soldiers sol-diers stole ?5,000 in gold. He was court martialed, convicted and Bhot , for the crime, but the hiding place of the gold was never discovered. American Fork Citizen. |