Tooele City Pioneer Cemetery

Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States
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State Highway 36, Tooele, Utah, 84074

Cemetery Description

The Daughters of Utah Pioneers website : http://www.duptooeleco.org/Markers.htm
describes the cemetery this way:
DUP Marker #331 -
"Tooele's First Cemetery"
Located at 725 South Main Street in Tooele
Pioneers of Tooele and Rush Valley were buried here between 1850-1867. As no plots were sold, families were required to dig the grave and use the next burial space. Several bodies were moved to the new cemetery.
To our best knowledge these remained:
William B. Adams
Henry Adams
John T. Baker
Lansing Bates
Elizabeth Bevan
Hugh Bevan
James Franklin Bevan
Annie Jane Burridge
Daniel Shaw Burridge
Thomas Chamberlain
David Charles
Mary Ann Charles
Agnes Clegg
James/Lorenzo Custer
Hyrum S. Despain
Julyann Edwards
Armilda Edwards
Ann Gowans
Emma B. Green
Clara Ide
Rachel Kelsey
Susanna Kelsey
Agnes M. Marshall
Marshall - 3 Babies
Thomas H. Maughan
Robert McKendrick
Robert/Leroy Nelson
James Nix, III
Harriet Whale Nix
Sarah Early Nix
Sophia Pehrson
Levius Crooks Pratt
Onthew Crooks Pratt
Martha Smith Sagers
Hannah Castle Salsbury
Robert Salsbury
Christina Smith
Agnes Spiers
Peter Stewart
Samuel S. Stookey
Amy Sweet
Mary Emma Tuttle
Sarah Maria C Tuttle
Mary Agnes Utley
Harriet Cook Whale
Thomas Whale
There are no individual markers but the remains of several are supposed to be there.