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Visitors from across North America and Iceland gathered on Saturday in Spanish Fork to commemorate 160 years since the first Icelandic settlers arrived in Utah Valley. According to Fred E Woods, professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University, the five-day celebration (that was hosted by BYU) attracted approximately 130 participants whose commonality [...]| Ensign Peak Foundation
Among the sprawling cemetery’s 110,000 graves: 11 Mormon prophets, from John Taylor through Gordon Hinckley (omitting only Lorenzo Snow and Ezra Taft Benson); colorful characters such as gun-slinging bodyguard Orrin Porter Rockwell and the “swearing elder” J. Golden Kimball; and well-known pioneer women, including Ellis R. Shipp, one of Utah’s first female doctors, Jane Manning James, the first black Mormon pioneer woman, and Amelia Folsom Young, Brother Brigham’s 25th — and purpo...| Ensign Peak Foundation