Mormon Pioneer Cemetery

Mormon Pioneer Cemetery
The monument erected within the cemetery in 1936
Location	Omaha, Nebraska
Coordinates	41°20′05″N 95°57′58″W
Built	1846
Omaha Landmark
Designated	October 30, 1990
Location of Mormon Pioneer Cemetery in Nebraska Mormon Pioneer Cemetery (the United States)

The Mormon Pioneer Cemetery is located at 3300 State Street in present-day Florence at the north end of Omaha, Nebraska. The Cemetery is the burial site of hundreds of Mormon pioneers who lived in Winter Quarters, a temporary settlement that lasted from 1846 to 1848 as the settlers moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. It was designated a landmark by the City of Omaha in 1990.

Records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) indicate that 359 Mormon pioneers were buried at the site. Remnants of three of the graves are visible today, uncovered during the erection of a commemorative monument in 1936. The monument, a bronze statue by Salt Lake City artist Avard Fairbanks, depicts parents who have committed the body of an infant to the grave. The graves of a number of Florence residents are also in the cemetery, which the local community began to use several years after the Mormons left. The area had been used by Native American burial mounds prior to the pioneers.

The cemetery is adjacent to the Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple, near the Mormon Trail Center at Winter Quarters.

See also

• Cutler's Park
• History of North Omaha, Nebraska
• List of cemeteries in Omaha

External links

• Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, a.k.a. Winter Quarters Pioneer Cemetery at Find a Grave
• Mormon Pioneer Cemetery on the Waymarking website.
• Mormon Trail Center at Historic Winter Quarters
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mormon Pioneer Cemetery