Where the records reside
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      • Cache County >
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      • Carbon County >
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        • Court
        • Nephi City
        • Nephi City Cemetery
        • Vinebluff Cemetery
      • Salt Lake County >
        • Land records in the Salt Lake County Government Center
        • Mt Olivet Cemetery
        • Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park >
          • Gilcrest
      • Sanpete County >
        • Fairview City Hall
        • Fairview Museum
        • Fairview Pioneer/Lower Cemetery
        • Manti LDS FHC >
          • Fairview Cemetery Sextants Records, Genealogical & Local History Vol 2
          • History of Fairview 3rd Ward RS
      • Utah County >
        • American Fork Cemetery
        • Eastlawn Memorial Hills - Provo
        • Evergreen Cemetery
        • Utah County Recorder - Land Records
      • Emery >
        • Huntington City Cemetery
    • Virginia >
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        • Handley Library
        • Hopewell Centre Meeting
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        • Chatham Hill, Rich Valley, Marion, Virginia
        • Chatham Cemetery
        • Young Family Cemetery, Smyth County Virginia
      • Washington County >
        • Historical Society of Washington County, VA
    • South Carolina >
      • South Carolina Department of Archives and History
      • South Caroliniana Library
    • North Carolina State Archives >
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        • Wm Gilliam's 1821 Will proved 1822
        • William Lee Land Grants 822 & 824
      • Orange County, NC
    • Nevada >
      • Bunkerville, Nevada
      • Panaca, Nevada
    • Mesa, AZ >
      • Mesa Cemetery
      • Mesa Room
    • Manassa, Colorado >
      • La Jara FamilySearch Center
      • Alamosa FamilySearch Center
  • Specialty
    • Society of Friends (Quakers) >
      • Quaker & Special Collections - Haverford College, Pennsylvania
      • Friends Historical Library - Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania
      • Friends Historical Collection - Guilford College, North Carolina
  • Family
    • John Floyd Young Record Book
    • Mary Vilate Lee Romney Record Book
    • SeaBees (CB)
    • Sacred Records from a Baptist Minister
  • When it takes more than one
    • NARA >
      • Abraham Bane F31-248370296E
      • Sarah Bain widow 88.988
    • Slave names found
Picture
​This monument and replica pioneer dugout honor the founders of Manti City and Sanpete County:
               At the invitation of Wakara, Chief of the Ute Indian Nation, the Prophet Brigham Young sent Isaac Morley with 224 pioneers to make the Sanpitch Valley (now Sanpete) their home. They arrived in late November 1849. Within days, cold north winds and three feet of snow drove them to this area, where most of the fifty families dug into the hillside for protection. They survived in dugouts that first winter, although half of hteir cattle perished from cold andstarvation. This dugout symbolizes their humility, faith, obedience and willingness to sacrifice all for the building up of the kingdom of God.
                Spring brought warmer weather and with it countless rattlesnakes from the ledges above. The serpents found their way into wagon boxes, cupboards and beds. Pioneer journal entries record that the settlers killed hundreds of snakes, yet miraculously not a single person was bitten.
                From their meager beginnings in humble dugouts, to modern communities and the beautiful temple on the hill, these obedient saints worked to establish “Zion” in this part of the Rocky Mountains. Inspired by their fervent testimonies of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, these industrious pioneers made “the desert rejoice and blossom as the rose” (Isaiah 35:1).
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