A few of the original headstones remain, but many have been lost and broken. When the DUP decided to clean and restore it, "the field was a cow pasture covered with high weeds," says Joyanne Vincent.

Of particular interest is the grave of Green Flake, one of three black pioneers who arrived in the valley in 1847. Born as a slave in North Carolina in about 1828, he moved with his owners, Madison and Agnes Flake, to Mississippi, where they were all baptized as members of the LDS Church. They joined the body of the church in Nauvoo, and for a time, Green served as a bodyguard to Joseph Smith.

Green came to Utah with the first company of saints. After Madison's death, Agnes decided to go to California in 1850, and she left Green to "work for the church as a way of paying the family's back tithing."

Green worked for Brigham Young and Heber Kimball for a year or two and then was given his freedom and a plot of land at Union Fort. He married, had a farm and a herd of cattle.

Upon his death in 1903, Green was laid to rest in the Union Cemetery, under a marker that notes "In my father's house are many mansions."

SUP marker Z — "All Is Well," Brigham Young Grave, 138 E. 1st Avenue.

When Brigham Young died in 1877 — some think now of complications from acute appendicitis — there were already three graves tucked into the family plot. One of his wives (Emeline, 1826-1875), and two children (Joseph, 1834-1875; and Alice Young Clawson, 1859-1874) had been laid to rest there.

After Brigham, three more wives (Mary Ann Angel, 1805-1882; Lucy D., 1822-1891; and Mary V. 1844-1884) were buried there, as was Eliza R. Snow, 1804-1887.

The grave of the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and pre-eminent colonizer of the West was marked by a plaque installed by the Utah Trails and Landmarks Association in 1938. But over the years the little cemetery fell into relative obscurity.

In 1974, the Sons of the Utah Pioneers commissioned a statue titled "All Is Well" in tribute "to the Mormon Pioneers who sang joyously 'all is well' amid their trials and rigors on the long trek from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Salt Lake Valley."

The statue, along with plaques honoring both William Clayton, author of the popular hymn, and poet and author Eliza R. Snow, author of "O My Father," among other works, were installed at the cemetery, along with benches, walkways and flower gardens.