MMFF Markers

    Over recent years, MMFF has received many generous contributions to the MMFF Marker Fund. This has allowed MMFF to focus its attention on the the placement of commemorative markers at a number of unmarked sites. Thanks to all who have assisted in the following marker projects:

Julia Murdock Smith Dixon Middleton Grave, Forthcoming, Julia Murdock Smith Dixon Middleton Grave, Nauvoo, Illiniois, August 2003

Brooklyn Passengers Marker at Emily Bartholomew's Grave, Sunday, 28 September 2003, 1:00 p.m., Mound Grove Cemetery, Independence, Missouri

    The story of Emily Hopkins Bartholomew has appeared in a previous issue of the MMFF newsletter. A metal plaque, like the others for the Ship Brooklyn Passengers, arrived long ago to attach to her gravestone. The plan was to glue it to the surface of the existing stone. The original stone is small and rested directly on the ground- there was not enough room for the plaque above the grass level. MMFF had Johnson and Sons incise the plaque into the headstone and to put a stone base under the original stone to put it above lawn mower level.
    Donations are still being received to pay for the base and resetting work. The commemorative dedication will be held, Sunday, 28 September 2003, 1:00 p.m., at Mound Grove Cemetery, Independence, Missouri. It will be a small ceremony open to the interested public. This is another chance for you to be involved.

Elijah Abel Grave, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 2002

Hiram Page Grave, Excelsior Springs, Missouri, April 2002

Alexander Doniphan 1838 House Site, Liberty, Missouri, April 2002

Haun's Millstone Commemoration, Breckenridge, MO, 2001

Haun's Mill Stone Revisited, Breckenridge, Missouri

Missouri Mormon Walking Trail, 14 plaques in Independence, Missouri sidewalks, dedicated 25 May 2000

John Whitmer Grave, Kingston, Missouri, 1999

Haun's Mill 160th Anniversary Commemoration, October 1998

Zion's Camp Monument and Commemoration, 1997

Speaker, Historian Max Parkin

Complete Text of Max Parkin's Zion's Camp Talk

William E. McLellin interpretive marker at Woodlawn Municipal Cemetery, Independence, Missouri, 1996

Saluda Steamboat commemorative marker, Lexington, Missouri, 1992

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Additional sites currently under consideration:
The Far West Cemetery, Far West Missouri
John Whitmer's homesite near Far West, Missouri
David Whitmer's grave at Richmond, Missouri
Cooperative project at Haun's Mill, Caldwell County, Missouri

We hope to include other sites around Missouri as there is opportunity.
MMFF also recognizes individuals who contribute to the preservation of the history of the Mormon experience along the Missouri frontier with plaques and special citations.

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