The Salt Lake City Cemetery is a cemetery in northeastern Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, that is one of the largest city-operated cemeteries in the United States.
Description The cemetery is located north of 4th Avenue and east of N Street in The Avenues neighborhood of Salt Lake City. Approximately 120,000 persons are buried in the cemetery. Many religious leaders and politicians, particularly many leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) lie in the cemetery. It covers over "Salt Lake City Cemetery" (google maps, accessed 8 October 2019) and contains 9 miles of roads.
History The first burial occurred on September 27, 1848, when George Wallace buried his child, Mary Wallace. In 1849, George Wallace, Daniel H. Wells, and Joseph Heywood surveyed at the same site for the area's burial grounds. In 1851, Salt Lake City was incorporated and the officially became the Salt Lake City Cemetery with George Wallace as its first sexton.
The cemetery contains one British Commonwealth war grave, of a Canadian Army soldier of World War I. CWGC casualty record. Date retrieved 25 May 2014.
See also List of burials at Salt Lake City Cemetery
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External links
Cemeteries & Burials, Heritage.utah.gov Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Salt Lake County, Utah, The Political Graveyard