Posthumous Profiles

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sounds like everyone’s worst nightmare, right? Unfortunately for a 13-year-old boy living in San Francisco in 1854, it was reality. On the evening of January 10, 1854, there was a…

Reading Time: 4 minutes While photographing the mausoleums in Mount Olivet Cemetery, I noticed that the Clement mausoleum only seems to have one inhabitant. While there is room six, only a single person appears…

Reading Time: 2 minutes On the 16th of May 1941, l4-year-old Leland W. Oxnam and two of his friends decided to pack lunches and hike to Waterfall Canyon in Ogden. They set out around…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Today’s Posthumous Profile features Witcher Jones. What a name, right? I really wanted to know more about this man with the unusual name, so I started researching his life. Witcher…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Cornelius McLaughlin is buried in one of Utah’s most beautiful cemeteries, Glenwood Cemetery in Park City. Glenwood Cemetery was established in 1885 as a private burial site. Spread out on…

Reading Time: 2 minutes I picked Catharine Westwood for this week’s Posthumous Profile because of the unusual shape of her headstone. Catharine  Caroline Dallin was born on November 6th, 1840 in Ilfracombe, England. Her…