Captain Jefferson Hunt
CO. A Mormon Battalion
Soldier, Guide, Pioneer, Churchman, Builder
1804 -1879

This monument contains two plaques.

Leader of the largest party of ‘49ers from Salt Lake to California: guided first Mormon pioneer settlers to San Bernardino.

1851: Colonized Huntsville.
1860: Represented Weber County in Utah Territorial Legislature.
1863: Instrumental in planning Huntsville and valley irrigation; directed building of first school and meeting house; served as first branch president of Huntsville until 1865.

This plaque marks the town square of old Fort Hunt.”

Note: Jefferson Hunt was converted to Mormonism in 1834. Migrating with the Mormons, he was commissioned as a Captain in the Mormon Battalion. Hunt and his family settled in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. In 1851 he was called to help create a Mormon settlement in San Bernardino, California. He was a brigadier general in the California State Militia and a California State Assemblyman.

Daughters of the Valley plaque, 1937
In Memory of Mary Heathman Smith
Lovingly known as “Granny” Smith.

Born in England, January 21, 1818, where she was trained in a maternity hospital. She came to Utah in 1862. As doctor, surgeon, midwife and nurse, for thirty years, in storm or sunshine, during the bleakest winters or the darkest night, she attended the people of Ogden Valley with a courage and faithfulness unexcelled. In addition to rearing her own family of nine, under her skill and attention she brought into the world more than 1500 babies. She died in Huntsville, Utah, December 15, 1895.

This monument is Sons of Utah Pioneers historic marker #H, located in Huntsville Park at 250 South 7400 East in Huntsville, Utah