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Nancy Rich (O'Neal)

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Old Deseret Cemetery

Bonneville Shoreline Trail
Salt Lake City Utah 84108
United States
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Nancy Rich (O'Neal)

Born: 1782
Died: 6 October 1847
Age: 65 Years
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People Buried Here
Milton Howard Therkill
Buried Here
1844 - 11 Aug 1847
Carolyn Grant (Van Dyke)
Buried Here
1818 - 26 Sep 1847
Mary Evangeline Stewart
Buried Here
1834 - 1847
Snow
Buried Here
Not Available - 1847
Franklin K Shed
Buried Here
Not Available - 1847
John Edward Brewer Oakey
Buried Here
1842 - 1847
Elizabeth Covington
Buried Here
1820 - 1847
Adam McDonald
Buried Here
1790 - 1847
Jacob Foutz
Buried Here
1801 - 11 Feb 1848
Description

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all of the graves are unmarked The following is text from the article FIRST CEMETERY IN THE SALT LAKE VALLEY 1847-48

(Also the Kimball-Whitney and Brigham Young PVT cemeteries) Early in the spring of 1846 A. group of Mormon pioneers known in history as the Mississippi saints left their homes in Mississippi expecting each day to meet the pioneers under the direction of President Brigham Young and go with them to the Rocky Mountains They had not received word that the body of the saints had decided to winter in Council Bluffs so on they journeyed When they reached Fort Laramie they learned from trappers and scouts that Brigham Young and his group had not been seen along the route A. mountain man Henri Richard offered to guide them to Pueblo where he was going for supplies They accepted the offer and established winter quarters there These people established what is sometimes known as the first Anglo-Saxon settlement in Colorado Early in the summer of 1847 they learned that the first group of pioneers was on its way to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake An advance company of seventeen persons 5 wagons 1 cart 24 oxen 22 cows 3 bulls and 7 calves caught up with Brigham'S company June 4 at Ft. Laramie This small group headed by Robert Crow consisted of ten persons with the last name of Crow and four (A son-in-law'S family) with the name Therlkill Milton Howard Therlkill was only 3 years of age at the time Trouble plagued the Crow family all the way to Salt Lake but this group arrived in the Valley with the main vanguard company July 22 1847. Less than A. month later Milton drowned in City Creek and was buried 12 Aug 1847 at this location (One note indicated it was on his grandfather'S (Robert Crow) lot It was probably where his grandfather had his wagons set up while the fort was being built The Crow and Therlkill families were not given property in Platt A. They went to Brown'S Settlement (Ogden) the following year) Milton was the first white person to die and be buried in Salt Lake City He was buried on the east side of block 49 one block due east of the old Pioneer Fort (Nearly opposite the adobe yards-there were adobe bricks made west of the fort and one reference is made of the fort as the adobe yard). This site was on the bank of A. dry channel of City Creek west of two springs and next to A. Fremont Indian mound Excavations in 1986 located 32 bodies in 31 graves in the southeast quadrant of Block 49 (Section 8 see map). More persons died in the Valley the first year than were located during 1986. Some journals indicate burials at the mound on the Shurtleff property which occupied the northeast quadrant of Block 49 (Sections 6 and 7). Of the 32 pioneer bodies found 9 were adults the others were adolescents children and babies They include Milton Howard Therlkill (Age 3) 12 Aug 1847 drowned previous day Aug 11. Caroline Van Dyke Grant (Age 29) wife of J. M. Grant died of Cholera on Bear River 26 Sep bur 30 Sep 1847 Nancy O'Neal Rich (Age 65) pneumonia buried next to C. V. Grant 6 Oct 1847 1st woman to die in Valley Mary Evangeline Stewart (Age 13) first person to sicken and die in the Valley Arrived 25 Sep Franklin K. Shed poisoned by eating rootsl buried in same grave as Snow child John Edward Brewer Oakey (Age 5) killed instantly by A. log rolling from saw pit Arrived 2 Oct Elizabeth Covington (Age 27) died of the cold Arrived 1 Oct Adam McDonald (Age 57) who died of dysentery one hour before arriving in the Valley Jacob Foutz (Age 47) 11 Feb 1848 bishop and CAPT had healed broken bones shot in thigh Arrived 1 Oct Caroline Grant had her II child Margaret in Winter Quarters leaving her in A. weakened condition when she came west Cholera struck the camp on the Sweetwater River and claimed the baby Margaret on Sept 2. She was buried along the trail four days before her died Carolyn succumbed to the disease Sept 26th. at the Bear River crossing 75 miles from Salt Lake City Jedediah drove night and day to get to Salt Lake where she was buried 4 days later He and his friend Joseph Bates Noble went back to recover the body of Margaret and found that wolves had ravaged the grave and body Before they reached the grave Grant confided to his friend "Bates God has made it plain The joy of Paradise where my wife and baby are together seems to be upon me tonight For some wise purpose they have been released from the earth struggles into which you and I. are plunged They are many many times happier than we can possibly be here" His other daughter survived Jedediah became Salt Lake City'S first mayor in 1852. When Willard Richards died he became A. counselor to Brigham Young He was tall and angular and had A. little of the Abraham Lincoln look He gave fiery speeches especially during the Reformation of 1856. He called the people to repentance helped re-baptize them as A. token of their recommitment Insurance papers listed the cause of death (He was in his early 50'S) as "typhoid-pneumonia" Given the idea that he had spent long hours deep in the cold and unsanitary waters of baptism during October and November his falling victim of either 'Both of these afflictions was at least likely His home was where the west entrance to Z. C. M. I. is now Just before he died he had A. remarkable visit to the spirit world which he related to Heber C. Kimball who told of it at his funeral He saw many persons that he knew but only had conversation with Caroline She was the first person that came to him She looked beautiful and had their little child that died on the plains in her arms and said "Mr. Grant here is little Margaretl you know that the wolves ate her up. but it did not hurt her Here she is all right" Nancy O'Neal Rich wife of Joseph and of Charles C. Rich arrived Oct 2 and was buried 4 days later next to Caroline Grant Clara Decker Young Brigham'S wife on the vanguard company wrote "I followed (Caroline) to the grave next morning which made me very lonesome" Feb 11 A. granddaughter Eliza N. Rich (Age 3 months) was buried next to her North of the west end of Grand Avenue Salt lake Cemetery is A. memorial monument to her the first woman to die in the Valley and her son Ben E. Rich'

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Milton Howard Therkill
Buried Here
1844 - 11 Aug 1847
Carolyn Grant (Van Dyke)
Buried Here
1818 - 26 Sep 1847
Mary Evangeline Stewart
Buried Here
1834 - 1847
Snow
Buried Here
Not Available - 1847
Franklin K Shed
Buried Here
Not Available - 1847
John Edward Brewer Oakey
Buried Here
1842 - 1847
Elizabeth Covington
Buried Here
1820 - 1847
Adam McDonald
Buried Here
1790 - 1847
Jacob Foutz
Buried Here
1801 - 11 Feb 1848
BillionGraves.com record for Nancy Rich (O'Neal) (1782 - 6 October 1847), BillionGraves Record Old Deseret Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, North America