Willie Handcart Memorial Site 9-3-08

Remember Monument for the Second Rescue

Which President Gordon B. Hinkley dedicated in 1997

History Plaque - Click to read

History Plaque Monument for the Mass Grave
It may be that they are buried in the
open grassy space which is fenced in
at the foreground - it didn't say for sure

People Buried in the Circular Grave

This note is from Beverly:

Oh my gosh!!! Did you see the Willie Handcart plaque of the mass grave. That's the great, great, great, greatgrandfather, Thomas Girdlestone! I didn't know he was in that grave. I knew he died on South Pass in the snow storm. His wife, Mary (I think), died at the Green River crossing and she is buried there. When we were in Nauvoo I showed you their names.

Its so exciting to see that.

Bonnie and Sparky at one of the Amphitheaters
Kind of Ghostly Something in this Photo


Showing the Rock Creek Valley
Where the Pioneers Camped in the Storm

The Remember Monument
From A Distance


Bonnie and Rock Creek