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Stacy has created a tutorial (complete with pictures) on how to get started creating and adding basic information to a new PAF file. It is posted on the Resources and References page! Go check it out and then get started! As always, drop us an e-mail (gordonworthholladay@gmail) if you want our most recent PAF file.
And now, some real big news! Introducing Holladay, Utah! Rebecca Lynne discovered this city through a friend of hers who will be student teaching there shortly. If you click the link, you will see that it was founded by members of the Mississippi Company, who were led by none other than our John Daniel Sr.!
The even more exciting news: thanks to Google Earth, Becca found that there is a "Holiday Cemetery." After a little cross-referencing back and forth between the city's website and our records, I now believe that John Daniel may be buried there. My records say he is buried in "Spring Creek, Utah" and the city's website says the original founders named a stream near Kentucky Avenue "Spring Creek." Here's a photo of the entrance on [no kidding] Memory Lane:
Guess what? As an extra treat, we found a virtual tour of the cemetery. We couldn't get close enough to many of the graves, and so far have not determined if he's for sure in there... but we're pretty certain. Anyway, enjoy your tour by clicking on that link, then clicking on "virtual tour."
Don't forget to keep researching!!
EDIT: After quite a few phone calls it has come down to this: Holladay Memorial Park has early pioneer grave sites, but they are unmarked and the cemetery doesn't know who is there. The employee there gave me two other cemeteries to check out, but one number didn't work and the other was established several years after John Daniel's death. So now we are in the process of submitting a research request to the Salt Lake County Recorders' Office.
But it's all still good news!!!
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1 comment:
Yes, I know all about this. His original burial place was in a field. I remember going to it when I was a teenager. The site was flood irrigated all of the time, so the family name a large marker, in the same shape as the Washington Monument. It is located in the Santaquin Cemetery, back on the east side towards the back. It is very large. He lived in Polygamy with his 3 wives, who were all buried (after they had died) in the same grave site. Now, the remains are still in the field, but the stone is in the cemetery. I am his desentent, through my mother, Phyllis Holladay.
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