Fairview Upper and Lower Cemetery, aka Fairview Pioneer Cemetery Monument. The monument was erected by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers (DUP).

Fairview Pioneer Cemetery

The sacred plot, laid out by Joseph Gaston Garlick, was first used in 1860. Three small children, Maria Terry, Henry Weeks Sanderson, Jr., and Lucy Jones were the first buried here. Later, John Givens, his wife, Eliza, and their son and three small daughters were buried in the cemetery. The graves of Lauritz Jens Larsen, David Jones, and Thomas Jones, killed by Indians during the Black Hack War, are also located here.

The cemetery was originally laid out in a rectangular shape. In the late 1800s, a flood from the west drawn washed out several graves in the northeast section of the cemetery, causing burial to crease in that section.

Many of the headstones, the oldest of native limestone, mark the graves of mothers and their children who died of disease, childbirth complications, and accidents. Entire families were laid to rest here, having worn out their lives marking the desert “blossoms as a rose” in turn, an honorable legacy was left.

Fairview, settled in 1859, was first named North Bend. Because of the incomparable scenery of the mountains to the east, blanketed with pines, aspens, and wild flowers in perfusion, the name was changed in 1864.

The stone used to build this monument was the original stone from the Fairview Fort, built in the 1860s. During the Black Hawk War of the mid 1860’s some Fairview residents moved to nearby Mt. Pleasant for protection. Those who remained complied with leader Brigham Young’s instruction to build a fort. By the end of 1866, a thick, ten-foot high rock wall enclosed the center of town.

Compiled by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Bend Camp, 1999.

The map at the cemetery, 20 Aug 2018.

Fairview Cemetery - Looking East over the valley.