---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Anderson, Gerald
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 12
number: 11
published: 1909-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Gerald Anderson, "Scene in G. A. R. Parade," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 11 (September 1909): 897.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12011unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera12011unse
start_page: 897
end_page: 897
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12011unse
  publication_year: 1909
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Scene in G. A. R. Parade

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ASLEEP ON THE NIOBRARA.                                      897

       The dimensions of the monument, which was erected                   in      the
fall of   1908, are given as follows:
      Ground foundation 7x7x2 feet cement.
      Base 5x5x5 feet, granite.
      Main shaft 3%xS%, bottom tapering to 3x3 top, length 12 feet, with an 18-
inch slope to top of monument, granite.

     Elders from left to right are: B. E. Mumford, S. W. Frame, standing alone;
S   W. Ballard, Jos. I. Bawden, Daniel Nield, and Henry L. King, at the right.

       The inscription on east side reads:
                                  NEWEL KNIGHT,
          BORN SEPT. 13, 1800,        DIED JAN. 11, 1847.
    MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.
         ERECTED IN LOVING APPRECIATION OF OUR FATHER
    WHO DIED DURING THE HARDSHIPS OF THE MORMON EXODUS FROM
                    NAUVOO TO SALT LAKE CITY.
       On the west side:
      Others who died at Ponca, in the years 1846-7:
          MR. CORVAL,                       MRS. SPICER CRANDALL,
          MRS CORVAL,                       MRS. NEWEL DRAKE,
          LUCY BRONSON,                     MRS. DAME,
          ANN BOYCE,                        GARDUROUT NOBLE,
          MRS. RUFUS PACK,                   BENJAMIN F. MAYERS.
Columbus, Nebr.




                                                       Photo by Gerald Anderson.

      A scene in the Grand March, G. A. R. Parade, Salt Lake City, Aug. 11.