Meadowville, a small valley in the extreme northeast part of Utah's Rich County, was known for abundant wild hay watered by melting snows, but its high altitude also brought deep snow and very cold winters. In the early fall of 1863, Harriet and Ellen Sanders Kimball, wives of Heber C. Kimball, came to the valley with eleven Kimball sons and settled around Big Creek. In 1869, about one hundred families were called to strengthen the settlements in Bear Lake, traveling up Ogden Canyon, through Blacksmith Fork Canyon, and into Meadowville. The pioneer cemetery contains thirty-five known graves. The first deaths and burials were two Eldredge babies who died in 1876 and 1879. Many of the grave markers are for newborn babies and very young children who died mostly from typhoid fever, diphtheria, or pneumonia, as the harsh climate took a heavy toll on pioneer families with young children. Josiah Tufts, appointed Presiding Elder for the settlement, was buried there. Harriet Sanders Kimball remained in Meadowville and served as a midwife and nurse until her death in 1896 at age 71, and she was also buried there. The last grave placed in the cemetery was that of David Heber Kimbell in 1927, one of the original Kimball sons who settled there and the only one who stayed in Meadowville.