My focus to find the gravesites of ancestors in Salt Lake is one step further along. I opted to skip the microfilm/fiche route and instead found a 9 volume bound set of books in the oversized section of the Family History Library that included the Interment number, deed number, date of death, and plot location information for the Salt Lake Cemetery. Easy to just look up the four names I have on my line that passed away and were buried in the city.
(I found out that one ancestor passed away here in Salt Lake but was taken back to Canada to be buried in Lethbridge?? How did I never realize this before?)
So I now have the plot location information for Emma Prosser Toone, Adam Hunter, Elizabeth Patterson Hunter, and Anna (Susanna) Baillie Mulholland. That is two wives whose husbands are not buried with them. Emma Prosser was discussed in the previous entry - John Toone had been assigned to move to Croydon and she chose to stay in Salt Lake. She had moved to Payson before and lost a child in that time. I can't imagine the life would be easy in Croydon. The other woman buried without her husband is Anna Mulholland. I see her name written more often as Susanna - but I am not sure if one is the official record and the other is what she was known as.
Her husband was not cut out for farm life and was working on a ship when he passed. I remember hearing that the men had held an Irish wake for him and he was buried at sea. Somewhere in the Caribbean? Again - I should really be posting when I have actual records to refer to - but I'm still away from home and working from a very sketchy memory.
The plan is to visit the cemetery after Sunday afternoon conference. I just hope the weather holds out - pictures in the rain aren't what I'm going for.
