Sunset Cemetery sign returned to Homolovi
Photo by Jeff Pope Historical Society President Richard Randall (left) presents the Sunset Cemetery sign to Homolovi State Park Ranger Kenn Evans at the Old Trails Museum.
Park Rangers from Homolovi State Park were pleased to have a piece of Mormon history returned to them on Thursday. The Old Trails Museum Board of Directors handed over a metal sign that had marked the site of Sunset Cemetery for more than 50 years.
"Thank you for allowing this priceless artifact to be returned to us," Ranger Kenn Evans said to the board members.
The cemetery, used by Mormon settlers from about 1876-1888, is now part of the state park. The plate steel sign with SC welded on it was added sometime around 1920. It measures about 13-by-9-inches and was painted black. A picture from 1956 shows the sign resting on a wrought-iron pedestal. The sign was removed in 1979 for safe keeping, Evans said.
Evans said they would try to recreate the pedestal and return the sign to the cemetery.
Museum Director Kathy Patton said she found the sign resting against a wall in the museum and was happy to return it to its original home.
Patton identified the sign as the one missing from Sunset by the .45-calibur hole near the S.
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