This cache is not at the posted coordinates,
It is at: N 40° 05.AAB W 111° 37.ACD
Spanish Fork Heritage Cemetery
Utah South Center Company Daughters of Utah Pioneers, in
conjunction with the City of Spanish Fork, cummunity donors, and
volunteers have reclaimed and restored this hallowed ground in
remembrance of the pioneers who persevered through uncommon
hardships because they had faith in their God and in their
cause.
The pioneers chose this bluff overlooking the river as their
sacred burial ground. We reverence the lives of these stalwart
settlers who came into a barren land and built on a foundation of
faith. Settling a community was arduous, backbreaking work that
required unity. They lived in wagon boxes, tents, and dugouts along
the river bank. They plowed, sowed crops, herded cattle, irrigated,
and built roads and bridges. These pioneers were dependent upon one
another for their very survival. When death occurred, they mourned
together.
The first settlers arrived in xDBx.
Their life and death struggles while facing hunger, hostile
natives, disease, grasshoppers, and crop failure are heroic and
heartrending. Spanish Fork City was chartered, then surveyed in
1855 by Stake President James Chauncey Snow under the direction of
George A. Smith, first counselor to LDS Church President Brigham
Young. Spanish Fork combined the "upper" and "lower" settlements.
The settlers' lives, deeds, and devotion to the establishment of
this community write a powerful chapter in the chronicles of
Spanish Fork's early history. Their Valiant examples of strength
and courage have left a legacy to be treasured. May this sacred and
hallowed ground be a place of rest, reflection, and reverence.
Axxx No. BBC Utah South Center
Company