After spending the night in Roosevelt we visited the Nine Mile Canyon Monument in Myton and found a few geocaches there and by the Duchesne River. Then we drove on to Heber for lunch, down Provo Canyon, through Lehi and Eagle Mountain and out to the tiny farming towns of St. John, Clover and Shambip which are now known as Rush Valley (about 15 miles south of Tooele). We had never been to this area that was settled by my relatives. A geocache hunt took us to the St. John cemetery. A 5-page list of graves at the gate showed a page of Russells! I’m probably related to half the people in town. I found the graves of my great-grandfather John Thomas Russell and his wife Agnes Charles as well as his father, the famous Captain William Greenwood Russell (whose birthplace in Liverpool we visited last fall) and his wife Elizabeth Vickery. While looking at the graves, a guy from Riverdale (at the point of the mountain) walked up and started talking…a distant cousin (!) also a descendant of William Greenwood. It was fun driving around the area. It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon, but suddenly a wind came up and dark clouds rolled in with rain and lightning.
Dad at the Nine Mile Canyon Monument (tall, thin rock slab behind him). Ah, some blue sky!
Grave of Captain William Greenwood Russell and Elizabeth Vickery at St. John Cemetery.
At great-grandfather/grandmother's grave
We found this lane in the Clover area...notice the black clouds approaching!
Classic old barn
Dad at the Nine Mile Canyon Monument (tall, thin rock slab behind him). Ah, some blue sky!
Grave of Captain William Greenwood Russell and Elizabeth Vickery at St. John Cemetery.
At great-grandfather/grandmother's grave
We found this lane in the Clover area...notice the black clouds approaching!
Classic old barn
2 comments:
That was kind of a sad little cemetary but I guess that is how it is when the graves are a bazillion years old.
That's cool that you found Captain Greenwood Russell's grave and get to come full circle with that! Did you go out there knowing that lots of your relatives were burried there?
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