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Pioneer Cemetery
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This burial ground served the pioneers of American Fork from about 1852 to 1868. When death came to the village, friends and relatives prepared bodies for burial and dug the graves. Some Indians were also buried here. Those buried here included Sabrina Clark Adams, James Arza Adams, Charles Franklin Adams, Agnes Adams Davis Adams, Arza Quincy Adams, Mary Adelaine Adams, Moroni Adams, Elizabeth Adams, Lydia Ann Adams, Sarah Alston, Thomas Bishop, Mary Ellen Binnall, Edwin E. Boley, Samuel Bourne, John Bourne, Franklin Barratt, Milton Davis Chipman, Betsey Chipman, Andrew Crystal Currey Child, Henry Cunningham, Henry Covington, Sophia Dayton, Louisa Lance Dayton, John Eldridge, Zina Eldridge, John Fisher, George William Filcher, Charles Henry Filcher, James Faulkner, John M. Green, William Gardner, Joseph Hansen, Ingar Mortensen Hansen, Thomas F. Hendley, Mary Ellen Harrington, Lois Elma Harrington, Mary Jones Harrington, Sarah Julian, Mary Jane Jackson, George F. Jackson, Mary E. Kettle, Ann Kelley, Mary King, Mortimor King, Hyrum Kelley, Elizabeth Mitchell, Jedediah Grant McNeil, John Alma McNeil, John Mercer, Emma Julian Mercer, John Miller, Elizabeth Dean Nichols, Stephen Nichols, Daniel Nichols, James Nichols, Sarah Ann Neilsen, Miss Sarah A. Neilsen, Baby Neilsen, Anna Marie Olson, John Proctor, Vivian Proctor, James Parker, Emma Pool, Elizabeth Ralphs, Samuel H. Robinson, Ann Wooten Robinson, Alfred Robinson, Margaret Smith, James Moroni Shelley, Charlotte Shelley, William Boyer Shelley, George Heber Shelley, Elizabeth Shelley, Emma Shelley, Martha Sykes, Henry Thornton, Mary Jane Varney, Caroline Elizabeth Varney, Jacob William Varney, Joseph Woodhead, Rosannah Dishley Wood, and George Wearhem.
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