My Ancestors-Fairfield Cemetery-Memorial Day Weekend

Right across the street from the Camp Floyd Park is the Fairfield Cemetery. Knowing that my mother's family, the Zufelts, were from this area, I asked Lani to take a quick walk through the cemetery to see if we could find some Zufelts. Most of the graves were for the Carson Family, but as we went to the back of the cemetery, we noticed a lady drive up and get out and approach a newer grave. My husband noticed the grave she was visiting was for ZUFELT. We went over and started to speak to her, and she advsied this was her husband's grave who had passed away only 8 months ago. She said she was sure this was the same Zufelt family, and she was visiting her husband's grave for Memorial Day. He was a Vietnam Vet, and she said a victim of Agent Orange. There were no other graves marked Zufelt. This day we just happento be in the right place at the right time. My great-great-great-great-great Grandmother was Lydia Ann Dillenbaugh Zufelt, she was baptised into the LDS Church with her husband Henry Zufelt in New York in the winter, they had to break the ice on the lake to be baptised. They came over the plains with the Mormons in hand carts, and they settled in Lehi and then Cedar Fort. They would migrate to Payson once a year, but would wait until Utah Lake froze before crossing. Grandmother Zufelt gave birth to at least 16 children, but according to the stories I read only 8 lived to be adults. Some of her sons went north on missions, and some went south. The one who went south ended up in Arizona, and that is where my side of the family came from. When I lived in Alaska, my Relief Society President was from Canada, she married an American and they moved to Alaska. She was telling a story of her great-great-great-great grandmother who had moved to Lehi, and the story she told was very similar to Grandma Zufelt, so after relief society I told her that her grandmother must have known my grandmother. We started to talk, and found out that it was the same, Grandmother Lydia Dillenbaugh Zufelt. I was happy to find this brief link in Fairfield. This was a great afternoon trip, only 15 minutes from our home in Saratoga Springs, and a nice brief break from my heavy weekend work schedule.