Harrisburg Historic Pioneer Cemetery

Read the dates on this cemetery and the frontier's cruelty to children stares back. Harrisburg, now a ghost town in the Dixie desert, buried many of its youngest here, and the marker honors them by name. Some lived only hours: an Earl infant, a Fuller baby, a Jolley boy each born and gone within a day. A mother and her week-old son, Mary Ann Jolley and John, died the same February day in 1868. Willard Cox lasted not quite six months in 1887. The adults' graves are here too, but it is the children's dates that stop you.

What the plaque says

Harrisburg Historic Pioneer Cemetery Honoring Early Harrisburg Pioneers and Their Infants and Children Surname Given name Middle/Maiden Birth Death Cox Willard Glover 13 Feb 1887 7 Aug 1887 • Dailey Sarah Jane Wilson 21 Dec 1830 22 Oct 1873 • Earl Eliza 1 May 1864 (Died as Child) • Earl Wilbur Joseph 29 Mar 1817 6 Aug 1874 • Fuller Anne Belle Campkin 12 aug 1841 11 Sep 1878 • Fuller Elizabeth Vaughn 3 Oct 1845 7 Jan 1865 • Fuller Elizabeth Vaughn 4 Jan 1865 4 Jan 1865 • Fuller Orrin Eugene 8 May 1872 8 May 1872 • Goddard Mary Ann Pace 20 Oct 1835 1915 • Goddard William Pettibone 10 Jan 1827 1903 • Hamilton Abel 28 Jan 1874 11 Oct 1874 • Harris Bernice 4 Aug 1897 11 Feb 1898 • Jolley John Bryant 1 Feb 1868 8 Feb 1868 • Jolley Mary Ann Harris 25 Feb 1851 8 Feb 1868 • Leany David 29 Dec 1877 10 Jun 1879 • Leany Edwin 22 Apr 1876 28 Apr 1876 • Leany Elizabeth Scearce 4 Jan 1822 9 Jan 1908 • Leany Ellen 19 Dec 1878 21 Aug 1879 • Leany Elmer 9 Dec 1906 14 Dec 1906 • Leany Mary 19 Dec 1859 22 Jan 1915 • Leany Mary Elizabeth 3 Nov 1869 3 Nov 1869 • Leany Thomas Jefferson 4.jul 1865 11 Dec 1896 • Leany William Condie 19 Dec 1876 22 May 1877 • Leany William 9 Dec 1815 29 Dec 1891 • Mccleve John Taylor 27 Mar 1845 5 Jun 1867 • Mcmullin Martha Richards 2 Oct 1814 11 Jun 1867 • Mcmullin Mary Ann Holmes 2 Jul 1836 12 Dec 1895 • Mcmullin Willard Glover 12 Feb 1823 17 Oct 1884 • Meeks Charles Mason 31 Mar 1872 25 Oct 1873 • Meeks John Priddy 29 Sep 1863 11 Oct 1863 • Mulford Furman • Newton Ann Jacques 16 Nov 1813 1 Nov 1892 • Newton Elizabeth Ann 12 May 1860 30 Mar 1866 • Newton John 1 May 1815 16 Jun 1864 • Robb (Baby Boy) 26 Apr 1873 26 Apr 1873 • Robb Albert 18 sep 1866 21 Apr 1868 • Robb Susannah Drummond 13 Nov 1837 26 Apr 1873 • Robb Susannah 4 Jan 1864 Oct 1864 Site No. 164 Cotton Mission Chapter, Sons of Utah Pioneers November 2011

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hurricane Canal Trail — 6.3 mi
  The hand-dug canal that built Hurricane, now a walking trail blasted into the Virgin River gorge
• Snow Canyon State Park — 14 mi
  Red and white sandstone cliffs with ancient lava flows
• St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm — 14 mi
  Real dinosaur footprints preserved in ancient sandstone
• Grafton Ghost Town — 18 mi
  A photogenic ghost town used in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

More markers nearby

• Harrisburg Residents (2) Markers (DUP & SUP) — steps away
• Monument to Harrisburg Pioneers — steps away
• Leeds CCC Camp — 2.4 mi
• Wells Fargo & Company Express Building — 3.5 mi