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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Salt Lake City or Salt Lake County, Utah. Official City Website Official County Website Salt Lake County occupies the Salt Lake Valley, as well as parts of the surrounding mountains, the Oquirrh Mountains to the west and the Wasatch Range to the east (essentially the entire Jordan River watershed north of the Traverse Mountains). In...
Wikipedia Designed to capture contributors and participants in America's expansion westward from the east coast. Including politicians, newsmen, explorers, founding fathers, frontiersmen, mountainmen, railroadmen, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, etc. Notable people of the American Old West Artists Frederic Remington - Artist who specialized in the American Old West Explorers Saca...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tooele County, Utah. Official Website The county was created in 1850 and organized the following year. Evidence of several indigenous Native American groups has been found in Tooele County, but only the western Shoshone-speaking Goshute tribe claim the desolate lands as their ancestral home. The Goshute's traditional territory incl...
This cemetery is located on 650 E 400 S, Centerville, Davis County, Utah. Billion Graves Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Morgan County, Utah.= Official Website =The Utah Territory legislature acted on January 17, 1862 to form a county was named for the father (Jedediah Morgan Grant) of Heber J. Grant, who would serve as president of LDS Church from 1918 until 1945. Adjacent Counties * Davis County * Weber County * Salt Lake County * Summit County * Rich...
This cemetery is located on 1528 Sunset Road, Lake Point, Tooele County, Utah. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cache County, Utah. Official Website History Indigenous peoples occupied the valleys of present Cache County. The valley served the Plains Indians and the Shoshone. Trappers and explorers visited the area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. John Henry Weber and Jim Bridger came through in 1824; Peter Skene Ogden and James B...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kane County, Utah. Official Website The county was created on January 16, 1864 by the Utah Territory legislature and was named for Col. Thomas L. Kane, a friend of the Mormon settlers in the 1840s and 1850s. The Mormons first settled in the county in 1846. Adjacent Counties Iron County Garfield County San Juan County Wa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Juab County, Utah. Official Website The area of future Juab County was inhabited by nomadic indigenous peoples before the Mormon settlement of Utah beginning in 1847. Soon thereafter, Mormons and others traveling through the area had somewhat established a road to California, leading SSW from Great Salt Lake City. It passed Salt Cre...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carbon County, Utah. Official Website Carbon County was part of Emery County which was founded in 1880. The demographics along the Price River changed with the construction of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in 1883 and the development of coal mines, largely in upper Emery, to fuel the railroad. The Utah Territory Legisla...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Iron County, Utah. Official Website The Domínguez–Escalante expedition traveled through the Iron County area on October 12, 1776. Fur trapper Jedediah Smith is the first recorded Anglo-American to pass through the area in 1826. Settlement of the area began in 1851, when LDS President Brigham Young directed members from the northern ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Duchesne County, Utah. Official Website History Much of Duchesne County was part of the Uintah Reservation, created 1861 by US President Abraham Lincoln as a permanent home of the Uintah and White River Utes. Later the Uncompahgre Utes were moved to the Uintah and newly created Uncompahgre Indian reservations from western Colorado...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Uintah County, Utah. Official Website The county was created in 1880 and name for a portion of the Ute Indian Tribe that lived in the basin. Adjacent Counties Daggett County Moffat County, Colo. Rio Blanco County, Colo. Garfield County, Colo. Grand County Emery County Carbon County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Weber County, Utah. Official Website The Weber Valley was visited by many trappers seeking beavers and muskrats along its streams. One of the first on record reached the area in 1824, traveling from Fort Bridger. He reported that the Bear River flowed into a salt bay. Peter Skene Ogden passed through in 1826, representing the Hudso...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rich County, Utah. Official Website History The county was created in 1864 and was named for an early LDS apostle, Charles C. Rich. The county was believed to have first been visited by European-descended explorers in 1811, when trapper Joseph Miller discovered the Bear River. In 1827, the first annual rendezvous of trappers occu...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Summit County, Utah. Official Website The county was created by the Utah Territory legislature on January 13, 1854 and was named such because it includes 39 of the highest mountain peaks in Utah. Adjacent Counties Rich County Uinta County, Wyo. Morgan County Salt Lake County Wasatch County Daggett County Sweetwat...
This project is for those who were born,lived, and died in the State of Utah.
Wikipedia The University of Utah (also referred to as the U, the U of U, or Utah) is a public coeducational space-grant research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. As the state's flagship university, the university offers more than 100 undergraduate majors and more than 92 graduate degree programs. Graduate studies include the S.J. Quinney College of Law and the School of Medi...
This cemetery is located on 704 South Highway 89, Hatch, Garfield County, Utah. Find a Grave Genealogy Trails
Lindquist's Washington Heights Memorial Park was established in 1947, on the high ground overlooking the adjacent communities of South Ogden and Washington Terrace. It's located on 4500 Washington Boulevard, South Ogden, Weber County, Utah. Find a Grave Billion Graves
There are only two cemeteries in Morgan City: North Morgan Cemetery and South Morgan Cemetery. The land for Morgan South was donated to Morgan city by the Francis family to be used for a cemetery. It's located on 355 South State Street, Morgan, Morgan County, Utah. Find a Grave Billion Graves
The United States Vs The Ute , Paluite , Navajo and Apache == The Black Hawk War , or Black Hawk's War, from 1865 to 1872, is the name of the estimated 150 military engagement between Mormon settlers in the Four Corners region and members of the Ute, Paiute, Apache and Navajo tribes, led by a local Ute chief, Antonga Black Hawk. The conflict resulted in the abandonment of some settlements and p...
The Glenwood Cemetery was originally established as a burial ground for a number of fraternal organizations. Visitors can spot many of their symbols etched into the grave markers. Its beginnings date to 1885 when Park City businessman Edward Thiriot sold three acres to the group for a total of $100, then donated the other two that make up the five-acre parcel. Miners, many of them immigrants, j...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grand County, Utah. Official Website History The European-based settlement of the area began with arrival of Mormon pioneers in 1847. By 1855 they had sent missionary-settlers into eastern Utah Territory. An Elk Mountain Mission was established, but closed after a few months due to Indian raids. For several decades thereafter, the...
This project is a sub project of the Mormon Pioneers (1847-1868) Master Project This project covers all company commanders of the Mormon Pioneer migrations from 1847-1868) Finding Aids Alphabetical Company List Chronological Company List Alphabetical List of all Company Commander Names and Year of Departure Horace M. Alexander (1847) Isaac Allred (1855) Frederick Christian Ander...