Join us on Friday June 17th at Salt Lake City Cemetery!
*Image via Find a Grave*
“Salt Lake City’s cemetery is the largest municipally-owned cemetery in the country, taking up a little over 120 acres. 1848 marked the cemetery’s first burial, making the cemetery 172 years old with 130,000 burial sites. Some of these sites hold famous people, such as Orrin Porter Rockwell, lawman and bodyguard of Joseph Smith; Lester F. Wire, inventor of the traffic light; Jean Baptiste, a grave robber; Jane Manning James, the first female black Mormon pioneer; Hiram Bebee, the self-proclaimed and contested Sundance Kid; Jacob Moritz, commonly known as Emo, an early Utah politician, founder of the Salt Lake Brewery and subject of a legendary ghost tale; and Lily E. Gray, whose gravestone is mysteriously inscribed, “Victim of the Beast 666.””
*Info via Salt Lake City Publics Department*