Iosepa

Mother's Day Drive with Tom. We found ourselves in Skull Valley,

a desolate area about 1 hour from Salt Lake City. At a cemetery in the ghost town of Iosepa,

we discovered a sign which read:

IOSEPA SETTLEMENT CEMETERY

MORMON CHURCH CONVERTS FROM POLYNESIA SETTLED

SKULL VALLEY IN 1889-1917, WORKING FOR THE CHURCH-OWNED

IOSEPA AGRICULTURE AND STOCK COMPANY

THEIR SETTLEMENT, LOCATED 1/2 MILE TO THE SOUTHWEST

AND NAMED IOSEPA (JOSEPH) AFTER JOSEPH F. SMITH, THEN

PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH, FLOURISHED UNTIL 1917

WHEN A HAWAIIAN TEMPLE WAS CONSTRUCTED MOST

OF THE ISLANDERS RETURNED TO THEIR HOMELAND.

MANY WHO SUCCUMBED TO THE HARDSHIPS

OF THE LAND ARE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY