7/29/2009

Burials in the Spanish Fork Pioneer Cemetery

I have been contacted by many individuals since the re-dedication of The Spanish Fork Pioneer Cemetery asking me for a copy of the names of those buried in there. I am including a list here. The following are the names that appear on the new headstone at the cemetery.

The names with an * were buried here but later moved to another cemetery. The last names listed here with a parenthesis around them indicates that these individuals were slaves and the slave owner's name has been listed as the last name.  

The Pioneer Cemetery was used mostly in the 1850's and 1860's.  The current cemetery was opened in 1866 but I believe that both cemeteries were used simultaneously for a while to facilitate family members being buried together.  There is still some confusion about these early burials because no accurate or complete records were kept.   

To the best of our knowledge, these are the people we believe to be buried here. Please feel free to contact me with any additions, corrections or additional information.

James Andersen - born 1863 in Spanish Fork and died winter of 1863 in Spanish Fork, Utah.


Hulda Lovisa Asklund - born 8 January 1861 at St. Johannes, Norrkoping, Ostergotland, Sweden and died 22 February 1865 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Ann Griffiths Babcock - born 27 April 1796 at Loughor, Glamorgan, Wales, and died 10 August 1862 at Spanish Fork.

Elizabeth Ann Banks - born 17 March 1860 in Spanish Fork, died as an infant 1 October 1860 in Spanish Fork, Utah.

Benjamin Kimball Barney - born 12 February 1850 at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa and he died 22 April 1866 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Lewis Barney - born 21 April 1859 at Spanish Fork, died September 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah. [Per the Genealogy of Barney Family in America (by Preston and Barney), 1990, pg. 348, Lewis Barney was the son of Lewis Barney and Elizabeth Beard, and he was born 21 Apr 1958 in Spanish Fork and he died in 1860]

Margaret Mariah Barney - born 5 March 1854 at Palmyra, Utah, and died 30 April 1856 in either Palmyra or Spanish Fork.

Wilbur Joseph Barney - born 19 October 1859 at Spanish Fork, Utah and died March 1864 at Spanish Fork, Utah.

William Alfred Berry - born 30 September 1861 at Spanish Fork, and died 14 October 1861 in Spanish Fork, Utah.


Alpharetta Boice - (adopted Indian girl) born May 1854 at Palmyra, Utah, and she died 7 December 1856 at Palmyra, Utah.


Julia Susannah Bowen - (name was listed on first monument). Julia was born 26 October 1859 at Spanish Fork, Utah She died 28 August 1861 at Spanish Fork.


Lucy Ann Bowen - born 10 April 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah, and she died 26 May 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah.

Joseph Gibson Boyack - born 7 October 1864 in Spanish Fork, died 15 March 1865 in Spanish Fork, Utah.


William Brown Brockbank - born 1855, and he died 4 Feb 1861 in Spanish Fork, Utah.



Lucy Ellen Buchanan - She was born 3 October 1861 in Spanish Fork, and died 7 months later on 17 May 1862, at Spanish Fork, Utah.



* Lucy Ellen Green Buchanan - this Lucy Buchanan was born 22 January 1843 in Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio, and died 3 November 1853 at Palmyra [Spanish Fork], Utah.
(She was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, and later disinterred and buried, with a headstone, in the Spanish Fork City Cemetery in a plot beside her parents.)



Hugh Clotworthy - born 25 February 1827 at Donaghadle, Down, Ireland and died 9 February 1859 in Spanish Fork, Utah.



John Clotworthy - born 20 January 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah, and died 10 August 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah.



Samuel Clotworthy - born and died about 1859 in Spanish Fork, Utah.




  • Joseph Coltrin - Stillborn in November 1852 in Palmyra, Utah.



Julia Ann Coltrin - born 4 May 1849 at Hazel Green, Grant, Wisconsin and died 31 March 1854 when she was five years old, at Spanish Fork, Utah.




  • Thomas Cordingley - born 17 June 1812 at Idle, Yorkshire, England, and he died in 1856 at Spanish Fork, Utah.




  • Grace Emily Lydia Last Cornaby - born 4 November 1863 and died 27 October 1864 at Spanish Fork, Utah. (Old Sexton Record Book says: "Grace E. L. L. Cornaby, born 4 Nov 1863 at Spanish Fork, father: Samuel Cornaby, mother: Hannah Last, single, died: 27 Oct 1864 at Spanish Fork, Utah from Black Canker. W. T. Dennis - block 1, Lot 28. "Disinterred from Eastern Graveyard.")




  • Henry Last Cornaby - born 27 July 1856 at Salt Lake City, Utah, and he died 18 November 1857 at Spanish Fork, Utah. He was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, The Sexton’s book also noted: ‘Disinterred from Eastern Graveyard’ and re-buried in Block 1, Lot 28 in the City Cemetery.”
    (Henry was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, but is not buried there now.)




  • Walter Last Cornaby - born 22 January 1859 at Spanish Fork, Utah and he died 9 June 1859 at Spanish Fork, Utah. He was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, The Sexton’s book also noted: ‘Disinterred from Eastern Graveyard’ and re-buried in Block 1, Lot 28 in the City Cemetery.”
    (Walter was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, but is not buried there now.)
**Note: Original research showed that the three above Cornaby children were buried in the City Cemetery, but after doing further research - under ‘Remarks’ in ‘Book A (F# 1654570) in the 1880 records they had a Bracket around all three names with the following notation: "Disinterred from Upper Grave yard, April 23rd, 1880". It appears all three Cornaby children were buried in the same grave in the City Cemetery - Block 1 Lot 28.

John Cowan - born 2 August 1782 at Campsie, Stirling, Scotland, and died 3 August 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah.



* William Miller Creer - born July 1859 at Spanish Fork, and died 28 August 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah. (Old Sexton Record Says: "William Miller Creer, born 22 July 1859 at Spanish Fork, Utah, father: William Creer, mother Sarah Jane Miller Bradley Creer, LDS, single, died: 28 Aug 1860 in Spanish Fork, burial: Old Graveyard." William was originally buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, and later disinterred and re-buried in the City Cemetery in Loc: 80.11.02.)



Phoebe Justine Darger - born January 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah, and she died at age 2 years old in 1862 at Spanish Fork, Utah. Phoebe was one of the names that was listed on the monument.



Sarah Jane George Davis - born 14 November 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah, and she died September 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah, at age 22 months.



Mary Ann Taphouse Day - born about 1810 of Uxbridge, London, England, and died 11 September 1863 in Spanish Fork, Utah.



Alma Dimick - born 7 Feb 1847 at Wapello, Iowa and died 1 June 1862 at Spanish Fork, Utah. Alma was 15 years old when he drowned in the Spanish Fork flood waters.



James Phillip DuFresne - born January 1800 (in France or Canada) and he died at age 55 in Spanish Fork, Utah on 14 Oct 1858.



  • Vardis John Fisher - bor 4 October 1785 at Guilford, Windham, Vermont and he died 25 February 1866 at Spanish Fork, Utah.




George Foster - born 6 September 1834 at South Shields, Durham, England, died 22 November 1857 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Hattie Garfield - born 26 July 1861 at Spanish Fork, Utah and died 12 February 1862 at Spanish Fork, Utah.




  • Moses Gay - born 21 March 1804 at Hubbardston, Worcester, Massachusetts, and died 27 May 1854 at Spanish Fork, Utah.
(Old Sexton Book says he was buried in the old Palmyra Graveyard (Pioneer Cemetery), and was later disinterred and buried near his wife in the New Spanish Fork City Cemetery.)



Jacobena Meteah Hansen (Sonberg) - born 9 April 1870 Ronbjerg, Ringkobing, Denmark, and died 31 July 1871 at Spanish Fork, Utah.




Albina Alvord Murray Hawkes - born 17 February 1814 at Lockport, Niagara, New York, and died November 1853 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Joseph Bryant Hawkes - born 24 May 1799 at West Buxton, York, Main, and he died 12 December 1862 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Levi Hawkes - born 18 September 1862 at Spanish Fork, Utah, and he died 29 November 1862 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Lucy Ellen Higginson - born 8 November 1857 at Spanish Fork, Utah, and died 20 January 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah.

Mary Ann Higginson - born 22 October 1861 at Spanish Fork, and died 12 September 1862 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Coriantimur Hillman - born and died 4 October 1852 at Palmyra, Utah.
Records say that he was buried in the old Palmyra Cemetery, which was actually the Pioneer Cemetery in Spanish Fork



Shadrach Hillman - born 3 March 1854 at Palmyra, Utah and died 31 March 1854 at Palmyra.



* Dolly Patience Holt - born 30 June 1857 and died 1 August 1857 at Spanish Fork, Utah. (She was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, with her mother and sister, and their bodies were later moved to the present City Cemetery.)



* Mary Leah Holt - born and died on 7 May 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah.(She was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, with her mother and sister, and their bodies were later Moved to the present City Cemetery.)



* Patience Dolly Childs Holt - born 27 Sept 1827 at Pomfort, Chatauqua, New York and died 9 May 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah. (She was buried in the Old Pioneer Cemetery, but was later moved to the City Cemetery.)

* Sarah Jane Holt - born 13 September 1859 at Spanish Fork, Utah and died as a baby, thirteen months later, on 4 October 1860, in Spanish Fork. (She was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery and then moved to the new City Cemetery.)

George Sweeten Hunsaker - born 27 July 1857 at Carson Valley (Genoa), Douglas, Nevada, and died eleven months later, on 12 June 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah.

David Rees Isaac - born 5 July 1864 at Spanish Fork, Utah and he died 8 February 1865 at Spanish Fork, Utah.

John Isaac - born 4 August 1861 in Spanish Fork, Utah, died 21 August 1861 at Spanish Fork, Utah.

Emily Heaton Jacob - 28 Nov 1810 at Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont and she died 6 Dec 1859 at Spanish Fork, Utah.

* Rachel Jane Job - born 15 June 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah and she died 25 August 1861, at Spanish Fork, Utah.
(Rachel was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery and over 50 years later, her mother had her remains dug up and taken to Goshen, Utah where they were buried beside her father.)




Gundal Johnson - Died 24 Oct 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah, and was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery.




Nathaniel Jordan - born 19 Nov 1810 at Pleasant, Brown, Ohio, and he died 1 Aug 1853 at Palmyra, Utah.




Mary King - born 27 June 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah and died 16 September 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah. Mary was one who was named on the old monument.

Leah Jane Lee - born 5 April 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah and died 16 Dec 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Mary Gardner Sweeten Luckham - born 5 June 1807 at Kilsythe, Stirling, Scotland and she died 12 June 1858 in Spanish Fork, Utah. Listed on Original Monument as Mary Gardner Sweeten. Her grandson, George Sweeten Hunsaker, died the same day and was buried with her.

Agnes Malcolm - born 22 June 1846 at Grenock, Renfrew, Scotland, and died 29 September 1852, probably somewhere near Palmyra, Utah. The history says she was killed by a run-away wagon on the trip here [Palmyra]. It doesn’t say if she was buried anywhere else along the way.

James Malcolm - born 5 November 1848 at St. John, Newfoundland, Canada, and died 10 February 1854 in Palmyra, Utah from black diphtheria.


Mary Malcolm - born 22 September 1844 at Grenock, Renfrew, Scotland, and died 25 March 1854 in Palmyra, Utah from black diphtheria.

David William Arthur McKee - born 15 April 1853 at Palmyra, Utah and died 16 April 1853 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


James McKee - born 6 May 1820, at Butler, Pennsylvania, and he died 14 July 1861 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Sarah Ann McKee - born 14 July 1861 in Spanish Fork, Utah, and died 21 February 1863 in Spanish Fork.




Elizabeth Ann McKell - born 1 January 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah, and died as an infant on 10 February 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah.





Helen Whytock Moncur McKell - born 12 November 1819 at Aushter, Mushty, Fifeshire, Scotland, and she died 3 February 1856 at Palmyra, Utah. (Helen was buried in the Old Pioneer (Palmyra) Cemetery, but her headstone was removed to the new City Cemetery.)




Mary McKell - born 1 January 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah and died as an infant on 15 March 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Robina Wilson McKell - born 6 March 1788 at Mawbole, Ayrshire, Scotland, and she died 16 November 1856 at Spanish Fork, Utah.

Ann Morgan Morriss  - born 1817 and died in -1859 in Spanish Fork, Utah.

Electa Anthony Mott - born 22 September 1855 in Spanish Fork, and died in 1856 in Spanish Fork, Utah.



John Romanzo Mott - born 2 Dec 1851 in Spanish Fork, Utah and died 14 April 1852 in Spanish Fork, Utah.


Samuel Dwight Mott - born 20 September 1853 at Spanish Fork, Utah and died 27 July 1855 at Spanish Fork, Utah.

Miranda Jones Davis Newton - born 16 November 1786 at Berlin, Worcester, Massachusetts, and she died 9 December 1857 at Spanish Fork, Utah.



Oksine Ane Maria Nielsen - born 15 April 1858 at Thaarup, Sonder, Vinge, Viborg, Denmark, and she died 22 January 1862 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Hannah Ann Buchanan Ogden - born 9 June 1857 at Spanish Fork, Utah and died 9 May 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah.

* Hannah Eliza Simmons Pace - born 11 May 1845 at Hancock Co, Illinois, and she died December 1864 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Mary Ann Pace - Listed on the Original Monument at the Pioneer Cemetery. She was born 17 February 1852 and died 24 February 1852 at Spanish Fork, Utah.



Mary Maria Pace - Listed on the Original Monument at the Pioneer Cemetery. She was born 21 February 1855 at Spanish Fork, and died 26 Jan 1857 at Spanish Fork, Utah.




Hyrum Smith Patterson - born 2 March 1854 at Kaysville, Davis, Utah and he died 18 March 1866 at Spanish Fork, Utah.



James Cummings Randall Patterson - born 5 April 1863 at Spanish Fork, Utah, and he died 26 May 1864 at Spanish Fork, Utah.



Samuel Patterson - born 8 February 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah and he died 5 December 1864 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Cynthia Matilda Raymond - born 31 Jan 1865 in Spanish Fork, and died 7 September 1865 in Spanish Fork, Utah



Samuel James Raymond - born 11 Aug 1855 at Spanish Fork, and died 24 September 1855 at Spanish Fork, Utah. (He was listed on the original monument.)



Ann (Redd) - born about 1834 in North Carolina and died 4 November 1854 in Spanish Fork, Utah. Ann was a black servant to the Redd family.




Chaney or Chancey (Redd) - born about 1812 in North Carolina, and she died between 1856 and 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah. Chaney was a slave to the Redd family. Chaney’s daughter, Ann, is also buried in the Pioneer Cemetery.



Elizabeth Hancock Redd - born 25 Jan 1798 at Snead’s Ferry, Stump Sound, Onslow, North Carolina. She died 28 Nov 1853 at Spanish Fork, Utah. She was listed on the original monument. The Pioneer Cemetery was named after her and her family.




John Hardison Redd - Listed on Original Monument. He was born 27 December 1799 at Snead’s Ferry, Stump Sound, Onslow, North Carolina, and died on June 15th, 1858.
(John Hardison Redd is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, along with his wife, Elizabeth Hancock Redd, their 15 year old son, John Holt Redd, and their grand-daughter, Mary Maria Pace.)



John Holt Redd - Listed on the Original Monument. He was born 13 June 1838 at Snead’s Ferry, Onslow, North Carolina, and he died 25 November 1853 at Spanish Fork, Utah.



* Luke (Redd) - born 9 January 1828 in North Carolina, and he came to Utah as a black slave with the John Hardison Redd family, and he died sometime after the 1870 census. (It is possible that Luke was buried in New Harmony, Utah; however no records have been found of him being buried there.)



Mary Catherine Redd - born 4 January 1834 at Sneads Ferry, Stump Sound, Onslow, North Carolina, and she died 5 May 1851 at Spanish Fork, Utah. She was the first of the Redd family to be buried in the old Pioneer Cemetery, which was originally called the “Redd Cemetery” after this family.
(Mary was the FIRST person to be buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, and it became known as the ‘Redd Cemetery’ for awhile.)



William Steven Riley - born 21 Dec 1853 at Palmyra, Utah and died as a child on 20 September 1855 at Palmyra, Utah.


Evan David Roach - born 15 December 1861 at Spanish Fork, Utah, and he died there the same day, 15 December 1861.


  • Andrew Robertson - born 12 December 1799 at Tollcross, Barony, Lanark, Scotland, and he died 17 October 1864 at Spanish Fork, Utah.



Elizabeth Jane Robertson - born 15 January 1859 at Spanish Fork, and she died 25 October 1859 at Spanish Fork, Utah.



Hannah Robertson - born in August 1862 at Spanish Fork and she also died in August 1862 at Spanish Fork, Utah.



Levi Thomas Robertson - born 28 September 1854 at Palmyra, Utah and he died sometime before 1860.



Margaret Alice Robertson - She probably was born and died in 1858, in Spanish Fork, Utah. Family records list her as dying in infancy, and being born in 1858. She was not on the 1860 Census.



Sarah Ann Robertson - born 5 October 1856 in Springville, Utah, and she died 8 December 1863 at Spanish Fork, Utah. Some family records list her death date as 1856, but she was listed on the 1860 Census, in Spanish Fork.




George Washington Sevey - born 19 September 1857 at Spanish Fork, Utah and died 14 April 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah.



Mary Johansen Sorensen - born 5 May 1857 in a dug-out in Spanish Fork, and died at the age of 1½ years old, on 4 November 1858, at Spanish Fork, Utah.



Eleanor Stewart - born about 1863 in Spanish Fork, Utah and died 1 September 1864 at Spanish Fork, Utah.


Thursa Jane Stewart - born about 1861 at Spanish Fork, Utah, and died 13 April 1862 at Spanish Fork, Utah.




William Chisholm Stewart - born 23 October in 1859 in Spanish Fork, Utah and died 14 September 1861 at Spanish Fork, Utah.




Amos Heber Stiles - born about 1853 probably in Spanish Fork, and died 20 December 1855 in Spanish Fork, Utah.




Peter Swenson - born 10 December 1859 at Spanish Fork, and he died 20 December 1859 at Spanish Fork, Utah.




Mary Gardner Sweeten - (See Mary Gardner Sweeten Luckham)




Oren James Thomas - born 12 February 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah, and he died the same day 12 February 1858 at Spanish Fork. Oren was listed on the original monument at the Pioneer Cemetery.




Leah Jane Thompson - born 1 December 1840 at Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois and she died 20 February 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah.



Lydia Dolly Thompson - born 8 April 1853 at Spanish Fork, Utah and she died as a baby on 26 March 1854 at Spanish Fork, Utah.




Margaret Elizabeth Thompson - born 7 January 1855 at Spanish Fork, Utah and she died one year later on 18 February 1856 at Spanish Fork, Utah.






Mary Matilda Thompson - born 7 June 1850 at Council Bluff, Pottawattamie, Iowa and died 13 March 1854 at Spanish Fork, Utah.




  • Thomas Thompson - born 17 August 1864 at Spanish Fork, Utah, and he died 23 August 1864 at Spanish Fork, Utah. (His remains were removed to the City Cemetery on May 29, 1890.)



* Lydia Rebecca Thurber - born 17 September 1856 in Spanish Fork and died 16 August 1857 at Spanish Fork, Utah. (For some reason she was listed on the 1860 Census in Spanish Fork)


Payton L. Tindall - born about 1848 of Rutherford, Tennessee. He died 31 July 1852 in Spanish Fork, Utah.




Sarah Ann Holt Tindall - Born 20 April 1825 at Rutherford, Tennessee. She died 1 May 1852 in Spanish Fork, Utah. One record lists her husband, Furney, being buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, but he was buried in Payson, Utah.




Bengta 'Alfredina' Tullgren - born 27 Sept 1859 at Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, and died when 11 months old on 25 Aug 1860 at Spanish Fork, Utah.




Harriet Elizabeth Wilson - born 22 November 1862 of Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, and she seems to have died at Spanish Fork, Utah on 6 December 1862.