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Jane Crofts Ponton Arnold
6 Oct 1830 – 23 Jan 1882
| Birth | 6 Oct 1830 |
| Death | 23 Jan 1882 |
| Cemetery | Willard Pioneer Cemetery Willard , Box Elder County , Utah , USA |
| Added by | Pilgrims Patriots Pioneers on 25 Jul 2018 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191659092 |
Gravesite details
There is no headstone for Jane. Her remains are believed to be in the common grave near the center of the cemetery.
Bio
Jane was born in England, the daughter of Sarah Phelps and William Ponton. She is believed to have immigrated to America in 1875. LDS Church records show her living in the Salt Lake 17th Ward on December 30, 1875. Later, she went to live with her sister, Huldah Ponton Budge and her family in Willard, Utah. She suffered a stroke and died 23 January 1882. FYI: How it was determined she is buried in the old Willard Pioneer Cemetery: At the time of Jane’s death, the “active” cemetery in the Willard Cemetery District was the newer Willard Precinct Cemetery. Records for the Precinct Cemetery list the owners of the plots and, in most cases, the names of the individuals buried there. Those records show nothing under the names of Croft, Crofts, or Budge. However, a "partial death record" in the Willard Cemetery District listed a Jane Crofts, dying in 1882, but it has no detail about her burial site, suggesting she was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery. Unfortunately, the Pioneer Cemetery was directly in the path of flood waters. In 1923 and then again in 1936, floods came down the mountain and washed most of the cemetery down the hill, carrying remains as far west as the Interstate Highway. All of the remains that could be located were gathered up and re-interred in a common grave near the center of the Pioneer Cemetery. The few headstones that were found were set up again, but their current location has nothing to do with the original location of the graves or the current location of the bodies. Sadly, the records for the Pioneer Cemetery were accidentally destroyed, so there is no way to know for certainty the identities of those buried there... except for those few whose headstones were located. [Following those floods, a water-retention basin was built just south of the cemetery to prevent further flooding.] Our sincere thanks to the volunteer serving as the Willard City Sexton, who researched all surviving records in an effort to locate the grave for Grandma Jane. She added flowers to this memorial, if you wish to thank her for her work on our behalf.
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