Mountain View Cemetery
Beaver, Utah

Overview of Mountain View Cemetery

Mountain View Cemetery, also called Beaver City Cemetery, is located at about 450 North 600 East in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah. The cemetery can be entered along 600 North at about 550 East and 600 East. The official entrance and parking for the cemetery is off of 400 North at about 500 East. The cemetery has over four thousand burials, though locations of about four hundred of these are unknown.1 This is where Theodore Turley is buried along with his fifth wife, Ruth Jane Giles. Other burials are noteworthy for descendants of Isaac Turley, son of Theodore Turley and Frances Kimberley. The parents of Isaac Turley’s two wives, Sarah Greenwood and Clara Ann Tolton, are also buried in Mountain View Cemetery.

Gate of Mountain View Cemetery in Beaver
Gate at southwestern entrance of Mountain View Cemetery in Beaver. Photo by Carolee Pyper.

For many years, Theodore Turley’s grave was unmarked. In 1997, the Theodore Turley Family Organization raised funds and placed a headstone for Theodore Turley and several of his family members buried in that cemetery. For more information on how Theodore Turley’s descendants located Theodore’s grave in the 1990s, check out our Special Projects page.

Burials

Greenwood, Ann H. — Ann Hartley (1821-1897) and her husband, William Greenwood, were the parents of Sarah Greenwood. Sarah Greenwood married Isaac Turley, the son of Theodore Turley and Frances Kimberley. Ann Hartley Greenwood died at the age of seventy-five on 18 July 1897.2
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Greenwood, William — William Greenwood (1819-1899) and his wife, Ann Hartley, were the parents of Sarah Greenwood who married Isaac Turley. Isaac was the son of Theodore Turley and Frances Kimberley. William Greenwood died at the age of eighty on 11 October 1899 after he tragically drowned in Millard County.3
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Tolton, Edward — Edward Tolton (1822-1896) and his wife, Mary Ann Tomlinson, were the parents of Clara Ann Tolton. Clara Ann married Isaac Turley, son of Theodore Turley and Frances Kimberley. Edward Tolton died at the age of seventy-four on 26 October 1896 after being severely burned from an oil lamp.4
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Tolton, Mary A. — Mary Ann Tomlinson (1831-1914) and her husband, Edward Tolton, were the parents of Clara Ann Tolton, who married Isaac Turley. Isaac was the son of Theodore Turley and Frances Kimberley. Mary Ann Tomlinson Tolton died at the age of eighty-two on 19 February 1914 in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah.5
FindaGrave Memorial 102744 | FamilySearch KWJC-SS7

Turley, Frederick — Frederick Turley (1874-1875) was Theodore Turley’s grandson. His parents were Isaac Turley and Sarah Greenwood. Frederick’s name has various spellings in family records. He died 15 April 1875 when only seven months old.6 Like his brothers Isaac Marion and Herman, Frederick was likely buried at Mountain View Cemetery since his parents resided in Beaver at that time. His name was listed on the back of the gravestone for Theodore Turley and Ruth Jane Giles installed in 1997.
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Back side of Theodore Turley's headstone showing names of his three grandsons likely also buried in the same cemetery.

Turley, Herman — Herman Turley (1867-1869) was Theodore Turley’s grandson. His parents were Isaac Turley and Sarah Greenwood. According to family records, Herman died 30 August 1869 at the age of two years.7 Like his brothers Isaac Marion and Frederick, Herman was likely buried at Mountain View Cemetery since his parents resided in Beaver at that time. His name was listed on the back of the gravestone for Theodore Turley and Ruth Jane Giles installed in 1997.
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Turley, Isaac Marion — Isaac Marion Turley (1861-1876) was Theodore Turley’s grandson. His parents were Isaac Turley and Sarah Greenwood. He died 17 July 1876 at the age of fourteen years according to family records.8 Like his brothers Herman and Frederick, Isaac Marion was likely buried at Mountain View Cemetery since his parents resided in Beaver at that time. His name was listed on the back of the gravestone for Theodore Turley and Ruth Jane Giles installed in 1997.
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Turley, Ruth Jane Giles — Ruth Jane Giles (1812-1880) was Theodore Turley’s fifth wife. She died at the age of sixty-eight on 28 December 1880, likely in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah.9
FindaGrave Memorial 51058 | FamilySearch KWV9-C8R | TTFO bio for Ruth Jane Giles | Special Projects page

Turley, Theodore — Theodore Turley (1801-1871) died at the age of seventy-one on 18 August 1871 in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah, from “cancer in the throat and mouth.”10
FindaGrave Memorial 51057 | FamilySearch KWJV-HKX | Life Sketch of Theodore Turley | Special Projects page

Gravestone of Theodore Turley and Ruth Jane Giles in Mountain View Cemetery, Beaver, Utah.
Satellite view of Mountain View Cemetery in Beaver, Utah, showing location of Theodore Turley's grave.

Related Links

Photograph of Mountain View Cemetery by Carolee Pyper.

  1. “Montain View Cemetery,” Beaver City, https://beaverutah.net/community/mountain-view-cemetery/, accessed May 2023.
  2. “Death of Mrs. Greenwood,” The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday, 20 Jul. 1897, p. 1, col. 7, Newspapers.com; Richard Greenwood and Doris Greenwood, comp., The Greenwood Family Tree (Alhambra, Calif.: self-published, 1976), 31-32, digitized at FamilySearch.org.
  3. “Pioneer at Rest,” The Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, 16 Oct. 1899, p. 7, col. 2, Newspapers.com; Richard Greenwood and Doris Greenwood, comp., The Greenwood Family Tree (Alhambra, Calif.: self-published, 1976), 25 and 32, digitized at FamilySearch.org.
  4. “Death from Burning,” The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, 31 Oct. 1896, p. 5, col. 2, Newspapers.com.
  5. “Pioneer Passes On,” The Beaver Press, Friday, 27 Feb. 1914, p. 1, col. 4, Newspapers.com.
  6. Genealogical information from Etelka White Robinson cited in The Greenwood Family Tree. Richard Greenwood and Doris Greenwood, comp., The Greenwood Family Tree (Alhambra, Calif.: self-published, 1976), vi and 33, digitized at FamilySearch.org.
  7. Genealogical information from Etelka White Robinson cited in The Greenwood Family Tree. Richard Greenwood and Doris Greenwood, comp., The Greenwood Family Tree (Alhambra, Calif.: self-published, 1976), vi and 33, digitized at FamilySearch.org.
  8. Genealogical information from Etelka White Robinson cited in The Greenwood Family Tree. Richard Greenwood and Doris Greenwood, comp., The Greenwood Family Tree (Alhambra, Calif.: self-published, 1976), vi and 33, digitized at FamilySearch.org.
  9. Ruth’s death date of 28 December 1880 is found in her church membership record. Confirmed via 22 January 2018 communication with Marie Erickson, Reference Librarian at the Church History Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was enumerated in a census on 7 June 1880 living with her son, Jacob Omner Turley, in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah. 1880 U.S. Census, Utah Terr., Beaver Co., Beaver, e.d. 1, p. 15, dwelling 149, family 163, Ruth Turley, image at Ancestry.com.
  10. Family records, likely based on a handwritten Family Memorial, state Theodore died on 12 Aug. 1871. Amasa M. Lyman’s journal entry of 22 Aug. 1871 and Theodore’s 1872 probate record both give his date of death as 18 Aug. 1871. Beaver Co., Utah, Probate records and registers, 1856-1966, Book A, 1856-1874, estate of Theodore Turley, 30 July 1872, image at FamilySearch.org, film 485230/DGS 7638366; Scott H. Partridge, ed., Thirteenth Apostle: The Diaries of Amasa M. Lyman, 1832-1877 (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2016), 666. Related blog post: “Do We have Theodore’s Death Date Wrong?”