IN MEMORY OF

RALPH MYERS

THE SON OF SARAH J.

AND WILLIAM H.

MYERS

BORN APRIL 21st 1883

DIED OCT ?? 1888

AGED ? YEAR.

6 MONTH. AND 9 DAYS

GONE…

Cemetery: Protestant Pioneer – Silver Reef, Utah

Yes, another child, I will have to add up the children, I feel like there is quite a few. I found William H. the Butcher and Sarah living in up the 15 Freeway in Beaver, Utah, with their 3 mo old daughter, Daisey. I also found a IGI record of a William J. Myers born in Silver Reef in 1889 and died Jun 02 1968. I guess that is some consolation.

This grave also includes a small footstone, I didn’t see anything written on it.

IN

MEMORY OF

AUGUSTA

WIFE OF

GEO. L.

HARDING

BORN

SEP ????  1862

TO

?????   ??? ????4

Cemetery: Protestant Pioneer – Silver Reef, Utah

Tucked under the branches of a tree that has grown very close, is the tombstone of Augusta, wife of George. It was very hard to get close enough for good pictures or to read it, even. It looks like the weeds, foxtails, rubbing against the bottom for all these years has erased the text down there. Only the 4 is left (visually) of her death date, if I had to guess, I would go for 1884, I believe the earliest burial in these cemeteries is 1878 and the latest is 1889.

Here are some closer shots:

I did some quick research and found no Augusta Harding in the 1880 census, but I did find George L. Harding, born 1848, a single engineer living in a boarding house in Silver reef. So if 1884 is the correct date, they were newlyweds and we have another sad tale of the rough life on the frontier.

We included this picture, on our Memorial page, as a “marker” for Charles W. Hewitt.

This is the Nashville National Cemetery where my third Great Grandfather Benjamin Hewitt’s brother, Charles W. Hewitt is buried. They fought side by side in the same company during the Civil War, Michigan 23rd Infantry, Company E. They fought all across Tennessee, we just found out about their service about 2 months ago. We’re still researching the rest of the story…

Sacred

to the memory of

Michael. Garbis.

departed this life

October 3, 1880.

Aged

48 yrs. & 9 mos.

Native of Cornwall

England.

Dying is but going

home.

Death thou art, but another birth,

Freeing the spirit of the clogs of Earth.

Erected by his son, Michael.

Cemetery: Protestant Pioneer – Silver Reef, Utah

I found the following quote in the book: Ghost Towns of the West, by Lambert Florin, Copyright 1970, 1971 by Superior Publishing Company and Promontory Press pg 392

Silver Reef experienced the usual murders ex­pected in an unrestricted mining camp (some de­scribed in Boot Hill). One is commemorated by a beautifully carved tombstone in the camp’s ceme­tery, placed on the grave of Michael Garbis by his son, Michael Jr. The father was slain by a discharged employee who was tried in St. George and found guilty, the execution thwarted by a mob that snatched him from the jail and hanged him at the edge of town. The hanging rope was tied to a bush so that the body was left swinging on the tree. Passing the spot the next morning, the town wag was reported to have said, “I have observed that tree growing there for the last 25 years. This is the first time I have ever seen it bearing fruit.”

I found the family in the 1880 census index at Family Search, listed as Carlis, but all the other records seem to have the name as Carbis, including the 1841 census of Cornwall, England at find my past. But the author of the book above and I see Garbis on the Tombstone.

In 1880 Michael was 48 and a Miner, with his wife Mary Ann Odgers 44, and Michael Jr. 20 a Blacksmith, born in California, as were the other two kids, Minnie 15 and Bertie 12.

Baby West

Born & Died

Nov. 28, 1879

Rest Baby Rest

Cemetery: Protestant Pioneer – Silver Reef, Utah

William Shelton

Son of

S.W. & Nettie West

Born

Jan. 28, 1883

Died

Oct. 9, 1888

Little buddie thou art

Gone but not Forgotten

Cemetery: Protestant Pioneer – Silver Reef, Utah

It took me awile, and I thought that I wasn’t going to be able to find anymore about the couple, but I found Silas West in Salt Lake City in the 1900 census. His wife is listed as Marie A. West, but I am pretty sure with the ages and length of their marriage, and their parent info that this is the right family. They have 7 children and a nephew living with them. A happy ending, for Christmas, Oh. . . and Silas’ occupation in 1900, Shepherd.

James H. Huston

Died

April 2, 1889

Aged

? . ? . ?

Parted friends again may meet

From the toils of nature free

Crowned with mercy, O how sweet

Will eternal friendship be!

Cemetery: Protestant Pioneer – Silver Reef, Utah

I found James H. Huston in the 1880 census, Occupation: Keeps Livery Stable. He was living alone nextdoor to the Clarks John, Hester and James from a previous post. He was born in about 1826 in Ohio. His mother and father were born in Pennsylvania.

The Lion’s Club sign out front says that they found 11 tombstones and 37 unknown graves. Here is the aerial overview.

I’ve listed all of the marked tombstones in the Catholic Cemetery. The sign out in front of the Catholic graveyard said that the Lions club counted 13 unknown graves. People have mentioned how isolated these graveyards are, so I found a nice aerial view to include in the slide show below.

Dale Byron Spencer

CPL

US Marine Corps

Sep 24 1934

Dec 3 2001

Cemetery: Catholic Pioneer Silver Reef, Utah

I believe this to be one of the tombstones that the Veterans Administration will provide if asked, My wife and I were wondering how this gentleman ended up tucked in the back corner of this old cemetery, who would you contact to be interred in a place like this, who would you pay, somebody has to be paid don’t they? I think its great that he could find this unique place to rest.

Well I have the computer fixed and I have spent all weekend working on this new wordpress theme, I couldn’t find any free themes out there I liked, so I made my first. I patterned after my main website, FamilyHistoryImages.com (a work in progress). It is a Joomla website, I just borrowed the background images, I’m not too happy with the header, maybe when I have another weekend to kill some day I will redo it.

Anyway back to work.