Sign near entrance listing graves

Daughters of Utah Pioneers
No 322
Erected 1966
Bloomfield-Hammond
IN 1876 LAND ALONG THE SAN JUAN RIVER WAS OPENED FOR SETTLEMENT. IN 1885 MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS CAME TO BLOOMFIELD, AND IN 1886 TO HAMMOND. JAMES DEATON WAS HAMMOND'S FIRST BISHOP, J.W. MCDANIEL WAS FIRST PRESIDING ELDER OF BLOOMFIELD. JAMES DEATON AND SON WHERE THE FIRST BURIALS IN THE PIONEER CEMETERY. SHORTAGE OF WATER CAUSED HAMMOND TO BE ABANDONED WHILE BLOOMFIELD GREW. BUILDING OF NAVAJO DAM IN 1962 BROUGHT WATER AND PROSPERITY BACK TO HAMMOND.

Plaque near entrance to cemetery road.