Charles Winder & Caroline Mills

This monument holds a whole family's arc in one place. Bill Winder was the first boy born in Desert Lake in 1888; Caroline Mills came into the world a year earlier in Ferron. They married in 1906 and homesteaded on Cedar Mountain, proving up 160 acres in the hard high country of Emery County through the 1910s. Their people had reached Utah the pioneer way — Bill's grandparents by handcart in 1860, Caroline's grandfather by ox team around 1852 — and the Winders carried that inheritance one more generation into the San Rafael country.

What the plaque says

1981 In Memory Of Charles William “Bill” Winder and Caroline Elizabeth Mills William was the 1st boy born in Desert Lake, Utah, June 28, 1888, to Charles Henry Winder & Helen Pilling. Grandparents: Thomas Harrison Winder & Hanna Shreeve, John Pilling & Sarah Bedford. He died Jan. 9, 1978 Caroline was born in Ferron, Utah, Feb. 2, 1887 to Henery George Mills & Eliza Ann Horsley. Grandparents: George Henery Mills & Caroline Boxall, John Pickett Horsley & Francis Jane Mills. She died Jan. 6, 1950. Both buried in Cleveland, Utah Married Dec. 20, 1906 Sarah Bedford & John Pilling came to Utah with the 9th Handcart Co. in 1860. John Pickett Horsley came to Utah with the 1st ox-team about 1852. William and Caroline home steaded 160 acres on Cedar Mt., Utah; Sec. 12 N 1, Township 19 50, Range 11 E, 1910-1920. They also home steaded 80 acres surrounding this area; S 1/4 NE 1/4, NW 1/4 SE 1/4 - Section 10, Township 17, 50 of Range 10 East S.L. Meridian, 1910-1920. They were the parents of 14 children: Letha, Virl, Mildred, Ada, Arnold, Baby brother buried on Cedar Mt., Angues, Ugeen (deceased), Harold, Zina, Philip, twins - Floyd & stillborn baby sister, Levan Dale Memories Forever

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry — 5.9 mi
  The densest concentration of Jurassic-era dinosaur bones ever found
• Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern — 17 mi
  A small-town museum punching way above its weight in dinosaur science
• Price — 17 mi
  A gritty coal mining town with a surprisingly excellent dinosaur museum
• Wedge Overlook — 19 mi
  Utah's "Little Grand Canyon" — a 1,200-foot drop into the San Rafael Swell.

More markers nearby

• Tithing Granary — 2.6 mi
• First Public Building — 2.7 mi
• Old Ranger Station — 10 mi
• Pioneer Cabin — 13 mi