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Cemeteries, DUP, Historic Markers, Magna, Salt Lake County, utah
Pleasant Green Cemetery
The Pleasant Green Cemetery was founded in 1883 on 10 acres of land donated by Nathan Smith. It was founded by Daniel Jacobs, Hiram Spencer, Samuel Taylor, George Perkins, Osmond LeCheminant, James Bertoch and Lehi Nephi Hardman. Lehi Nephi Harman was asked to be the caretaker. Daniel Jacob’s grandmother, Sara Haines, died in 1883 while visiting from New York and was the first person buried here. This was the first cemetery west of the Jordan River. Many of the original settlers of the western Salt Lake Valley, and unincorporated “towns” such as Magna, Hunter, Pleasant Green, Ragtown, and Coonville, are buried here. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints owned the cemetery from 1883-1993 and created the Pleasant Green Cemetery Preservation and Development Association in 1983. The Association turned the cemetery over to Magna City in 2020.
This is Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #594, located at the Pleasant Green Cemetery in Magna, Utah.
