City Cemetery Fascinating Figures

City Cemetery Fascinating Figures

From gunslingers and outlaws to suffragists to business leaders and beyond, this map highlights a very FaiNan Fire wide variety of some of the most unique individuals who are buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. 1 Jane Manning James (1813 - 1908) – First black, woman, Mormon pioneer 2 Chief Hirini Te Rito Whaanga and Mere Mete Whaanga (1828 - 1905) – Maori LDS converts from New Zealand who immigrated to Utah 3 Tom (a Negro) ( Birth unknown - 1862) – slave of Abraham O. Smoot (Unmarked) 4 Brigham Morris Young (aka Madame Patirini) (1854 - 1931) – Cross-dressing soprano; son of Brigham Young 5 Orrin Porter Rockwell (1813 - 1878) – Gunslinging bodyguard to Mormon prophets with mythical hair 6 Joseph “Jack” Slade (1824 - 1864)– Western outlaw buried in alcohol-filled casket 7 Gunplay Maxwell (1860 - 1909) – Gunfighter and bandit who tried to join Butch Cassidy’s “Wild Bunch” 8 Hiram Bebee (Unknown - 1955) – Claimed to be the Sundance Kid 9 Mark E. Petersen (1900 - 1984) – Leader of the Deseret News for decades 10 John Williams (1944 - 2016) – Restaurateur; founder of the Salt Lake City Downtown Alliance 11 Lawrence Horne “Larry H.” Miller (1944 - 2009) – Businessman; owner of the Utah Jazz NBA franchise Orrin Porter Rockwell 12 Lester Farnsworth Wire (1887 - 1958) – Inventor of the world’s first electric traffic signal 13 William Clayton (1814 - 1879) – Composer of the hymn “Come, Come Ye Saints” 14 Ellis Reynolds Shipp (1847 - 1939) – Second female doctor in Utah 15 Martha Hughes Cannon (1857 - 1932) – First woman state senator in U.S. history 16 Emmeline B. Wells (1828 - 1921) – Advocate for women’s rights Gunplay Maxwell 17 Romania Pratt Penrose (1839 - 1932)– First female doctor in Utah 18 Sarah Melissa Granger Kimball (1819 - 1898) – Founded the Ladies’ Society of Nauvoo, precedent for the LDS Relief Society 19 Emily Richards (1850 - 1929) – Led the movement for women’s suffrage to be included in the Utah State Constitution in 1895 Romania Pratt Penrose 20 Phebe Beatie (1854 - 1931) – Suffragist; delegate from Utah to the National Council of Women 21 Arnold Friberg (1913 - 2010) – Artist known for painting The Prayer at Valley Forge 22 Thomas Battersby Child (1883 - 1963) – Artist, creator of Gilgal Garden 23 C.W. Carter (1834 - 1913) – Prolific photographer famous for documenting early Mormon settlers 24 Arthur Shepard (1880 - 1958) – Conductor and composer 25 Edward Partridge Kimball (1883 - 1937) – Mormon Tabernacle Choir organist 26 John Widstoe (1872 - 1952) – Academic at Utah State Agricultural College and Brigham Young University 27 Karl G. Maeser (1828 - 1901) – Founder of the Brigham Young Academy, precedent of BYU 28 Jean Baptiste (Not buried here)– Grave robber exiled to the Great Salt Lake 29 Lilly E. Gray (1830 - 1958) – “Victim of the Beast 666” 30 James C. Fletcher (1919 - 1991) – Administrator of NASA and President of the University of Utah 31 Lucy May Van Cott (1869 - 1957) – First Dean of Women at the University of Utah James C. Fletcher 32 Daniel Wells (1814 - 1891) – Third Mayor of Salt Lake City 33 Conrad Bullen Harrison (1911 - 2008) – Salt Lake City Mayor, newspaperman and author 34 William Jennings (1823 - 1886) – Utah’s first millionaire; Salt Lake City Mayor Lucy May Van Cott 35 John Milton Bernhisel (1799 - 1881) – First delegate of the Utah Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives 36 John Thomas Caine (1829 - 1911) – Delegate to the U.S. House of Representa tives from Utah Territory, and Utah State Senator 37 William Henry Hooper (1813 - 1882) – Democratic delegate to the U.S. Congress; represented Utah Territory in debates leading to statehood 38 Joseph Lafayette Rawlins (1850 - 1926) – U.S. Senator from Utah 39 Heber M. Wells (1854 - 1938) – Utah’s first governor 40 John Christopher Cutler (1846 - 1928) – Utah’s second governor 41 William Spry (1864 - 1929) – Utah’s third governor; notorious role in execution of Joe Hill William Jennings 42 Calvin L. Rampton (1913 - 2007) – Utah’s longest-serving governor 43 Joseph Morris (Uknown - 1862) – Leader in the Morrisite religious movement and skirmish (Unmarked) 44 William H. King (1862 - 1949) – U.S. Senator 45 Sherman P. Lloyd (1914 - 1979) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah 46 Herbert B. Maw (1893 - 1990) – Governor of Utah 47 Elbert D. Thomas (1884 - 1953) – U.S. Senator from Utah 48 Wallace Bennett (1898 - 1993) – U.S. Senator from Utah William Spry 49 Douglas Wayne Owens (1937 - 2002) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives of Utah 50 Olene S. Walker (1930 - 2015) – Utah’s first and only female governor Olene S. 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