Tooele’s First Cemetery
Pioneers of Tooele and Rush Valley were buried here between 1850-1867. As no plots were sold, families were required to dig the grave and use the next burial space. Several bodies were moved to the new cemetery. These remain:
- William B. Adams
- Henry Adams
- John T. Baker
- Lansing Bates
- Elizabath Bevan
- High Bevan
- James Franklin Bevan
- Annie Jane Burridge
- Daniel Shaw Burridge
- Thomas Chamberlain
- David Charles
- Mary Ann Charles
- Agnes Clegg
- Lorenzo Custer
- Hyrum Despain
- Julyann Edwards
- Armilda Edwards
- Ann Gowans
- Emma B. Green
- Clara Ide
- Rachel Kelsey
- Susanna Kelsey
- Agnes McIntyre Marshall
- Marshall (3 babies)
- Thomas Harrison Maughan
- Peter Maughn
- Robert McKendrick
- Robert or LeRoy Nelson
- James Nix III
- Harriet Whale Nix
- Sarah Early Nix
- Sophia Pehrson
- Levius Crooks Pratt
- Onthew Crooks Pratt
- Martha Smith Sagers
- Hannah Castle Salsbury
- Robert Salsbury
- Adam Wylie Smith
- Christina Smith
- Agnes Speirs
- Peter Stewart
- Samuel Shambip Stookey
- Amy Sweet
- Mary Emma Tuttle
- Sarah Maria Clinton Tuttle
- Mary Agnes Utley
- Thomas Whale
- Harriet Cook Whale
This is Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #331, located at the Tooele Pioneer Cemetery at 21 Settlement Canyon Road in Tooele, Utah.
