Henry Wells Jackson Plaque Dedicated by Elder Steven E. Snow

Left to right: Paul A. Hoffman (attorney), Devan Jensen (executive editor at BYU Religious Studies Center), Katherine Brimhall (Daughters of Utah Pioneers), Jackson Barlow (Eagle Scout in Alpine, Utah), and Elder Steven E. Snow (Church Historian and Recorder, November 11, 2015.

Elder Steven E. Snow, Church Historian and Recorder, dedicated a new Daughters of Utah Pioneers plaque to Lt. Henry Wells Jackson, Utah's only known Civil War fatality. About a hundred people gathered for the ceremony at the Pioneer Memorial Museum in Salt Lake City on November 11, 2015. The plaque is attached to a Civil War Monument located across the street from the museum on the southwest corner of the Utah State Capitol grounds. This was an Eagle Scout project by Jackson Barlow of Alpine, Utah, to honor his namesake ancestor.

Jackson, Dona, and David Barlow next to Henry Wells Jackson plaque at Civil War Monument on Utah State Capitol grounds.
Following are links to articles about how the plaque was researched and came to be:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865640707/Boy-Scout-creates-plaque-to-honor-Utahs-only-known-Civil-War-battle-casualty.html

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/henry-wells-jackson-plaque-on-monument/image_e84845dc-ef89-56ab-a4d2-09d90f2ac46d.html

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865606099/Henry-Wells-Jackson-The-one-Utah-casualty-of-the-Civil-War.html?pg=all



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