Two Cool Graves: Logan City Cemetery - Logan, Utah

Logan City Cemetery was established in 1865. The cemetery has 53 acres of land. There are 1,280 burials per acre. About 45 acres are occupied with a little more than 8 acres remaining. In 2002, there were 227 burials, average is still about 220 per year. Current capacity is 41,324 with 17,600 burial spaces currently occupied.

Russell Larson’s (12/16/21-1/26/83) stone provides a colorful and humorous verse instead of the traditional somber prose. This poem is a familiar one to cowboy poets.


Charles Wilson Nibley was born 5 February, 1849, the sixth of eight children. He was the fifth presiding bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1907 and 1925 and a member of the church's First Presidency from 1925 until his death in 1931.
Nibley, a devout Mormon, entered into plural marriage. In 1869 he married Rebecca Neibaur. In 1880 he married Ellen Ricks, and in 1885 he married Julia Budge. By his three wives he fathered seventeen children, twelve of whom were born on the "underground," that is, while the church was being prosecuted for its practice of polygamy.

The Charles W. Nibley plot provides a look into a polygamous family. Notice that the wives’ stones are identical.