Random Pyramid Photos

 

 When the Mt. Pleasant Pyramid Office was moved

to Springville these photos were given to us to

share at the Relic Home.  Some do not have names 

or descriptions.  Let us know if you can add

any details. 

Nate Miconi, A sophomore Defensive Back From Roy Utah Makes A Stop on A Rick's Player 
1994

Unknown 

Shanna Stevens #25 takes aim at the basket during the Snow College game with Salt Lake Community College

Unknown

Joseph Shelley in the Middle
Scott and Barbara Callister
He won two free airline tickets to the West Coast

Mammoth Dam Flood ~~~~Mt Pleasant Pyramid 1917

             Losses Will Total Over Two Million 

Moroni History on You Tube

 

Clausen, Bristol and Cambron Families

 This History is taken from the book "The Family History of William Bristol, Ane Marie Sophie Clausen, Joseph Cambron, and their Descendants ...... Written by Pat L. Sagers. 

Pioneer Cabin at the Relic Home ~~~ (behind the blacksmith shop) ~~~ Researched, Compiled and Updated by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

 

A TALE OF TWO CEMETERIES June B. Jensen ~~~Saga of the Sanpitch 1986

Second Place Personal Recollection

 A wiener roast at the Bench farm in the foothills east of Fairview was a special party of the Season. If we couldn't afford to buy wieners or marshmallows, no matter what; we could always roast potatoes or ears of corn. We noted the good crop of pinenuts on nearby pinyon trees. That would call for another trip to the hills the next weekend. That particular night was Halloween; and after we enjoyed the roasted food, the group decided to trek across town to visit the two cemeteries. It was a long dark walk, past the last houses of the Brady, Cox, and Sanderson families. We stepped carefully over the bridge across the Sanpitch River or "Crick," being sure to turn the right bend in the road past a hay field. 

A turn to the left would take us to the west hills' dry farms. The old or "lower" cemetery always seemed darker and colder. Maybe that was because of the 74 older graves with weather-beaten, lichen-covered, leaning headstones. In some places, the ground was sunken around the headstones, and in other places, there were gopher holes Foot markers for the graves are still used there. Veterans of the Blackhawk War lie at rest. 

There are also immigrants from other lands and third-, fourth-, and fifth-generation ancestors. In the old cemetery, the Anderson marker with a huge round ball on top, shining in the moonlight, was a temptation, so we dared one another to climb it. 

No visit to the lower cemetery was complete without our looking for the burial spot of Matt Helean's hand. 

A story is told that when his hand was severed in an accident, he just threw the hand away. He suffered such pain and agony in the stump, that he recovered the hand, gave it a decent burial with a marker, and his arm stopped hurting. 

The most famous site is the common grave of John Given, his wife Eliza, and four children; John, Jr., Mary, Anna, and Martha. That family had built a cabin with a willow shanty in Thistle Valley. Marauding Indians drove their cattle away and massacred the parents and youngsters. 

They ripped open feather ticks and covered the bodies with feathers. Several decades ago, some graves were lost in the northeast section of the old graveyard due to flooding by the Sanpitch River. That was one reason for the existence of the other cemetery where the final resting places there are high and dry. 

The "upper" or new cemetery is high on the west hills overlooking the valley. The sound of lonesome wind rolling tumbleweeds over the ground greeted us. 

There seemed to be more stars shining on that cold Halloween night. Buried in that burial place are numerous close relatives and soldiers from both World Wars. The seven tiny graves in a row on one family plot always brought a lump to my throat. How could folks stand to bury seven babies? We were young and carefree those many years ago and didn't realize the memories in the making, our priceless heritage, and the privilege it was to grow up in a quiet little town boasting two cemeteries. 

The Givins Family: On the grave marker and a plaque placed by Utah Veterans of the Blackhawk War, the name is spelled GIVINS. On a State Historical marker placed by DUP in Thistle Valley, the name is spelled GIVEN.

Hyrum Bebee Once Lived in Fountain Green ~~~found in Fountain Green, Utah DUP Book

The newsclipping  shows this first.

Mt. Pleasant's Own ZCMI ~~~ Researched, Compiled and Updated By Tudy Barentsen Standlee

 

Disagree Better

 

THE OLD DANCE HALL ~~~ Wilford Wheeler ~~~Saga of the Sanpitch 1985

Wilford Wheeler   Fairview, UT    

 Come on down, come one and all Next Saturday night to the old dance hall.

 Now choose a partner and don't stand still Come dance with the gang in a plain quadrille;

 A waltz, a two-step, a fox-trot, too; But don't miss the dance, whatever you do! 

We'll hire a fiddler and he'll fiddle all night 

And we'll play and dance by the coal oil light.

 We'll just pay a ticket of twenty-five cents The ladies won't pay, but only the gents. 

Bring all your children and bring out your wife Come join with us for the time of your life. 

Now when we gathered on Saturday night And the lights were lighted but not too bright, 

Now to start things out without any flaw  The fiddler tuned up with "Turkey in the Straw„

 We'd all choose a partner and join with all And listen and swing to the caller's call. 

Now bow to your partner and do--si-do Now swing your partner as round you go. 

Now pass your partner, take the next pretty maid Now swing her around, then all promenade. 

Then as we danced and listened to the call The caller would call, "All circle round the hall."

 The music would change without a note false As we all changed partners and joined in a waltz.

 Then someone would say, "Please play one with pep," Then we'd choose someone else and do the two-step. 

But if things slowed down or started to drag It was either a fox-trot or else it was rag.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Wilford Wheeler 
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AMAZING DISCOVERIES ~~~ Shared by Larry Staker

 

Eagle Gate and It's History

Photo by C.R. Savage

 

Under the direction of Latter-day Saint President Brigham Young, the Eagle Gate was erected in 1859 in Salt Lake City. It was designed by Hiram B. Clawson and Truman O. Angell and carved by Ralph Ramsey. Originally, the eagle was made from wood, but later was reimagined and replaced with a sturdy bronze eagle in 1963. The original purpose of the Eagle Gate was to serve as a gate that kept out strangers and Native Americans from Brigham Young’s property and family.  It was accompanied by large wooden doors and quite literally was a gate, looking much different then than it does today. 

Eagle Gate 2017

Memories of Past Mt. Pleasant Pioneer Historical Association