Honoring Levi Stewart - Founder of Kanab Utah
by Debra Martz
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Honoring Levi Stewart - Founder of Kanab Utah
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Debra Martz
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Honoring Levi Stewart - Founder of Kanab Utah by Debra Martz Driving into Kanab, I noticed a small park on the north side of town and decided to stop. It was a memorial dedicated to the pioneers and founders of Kanab.
I found the following information online which gave more details than the small plaque. "A nine-foot tall bonze statue of Levi Stewart, founder of this southern Utah community, was unveiled and dedicated June 16, 2001.
A convert to the Church of 1836, Stewart was called by Brigham Young to settle Kanab. Stewart arrived in June of 1870, where he began by supervising the planting of crops. In September he became the first bishop of Kanab. A great tragedy befell him and the settlement in December of that year when the fort where they were living caught fire and his wife Margery and five of his sons died in the ensuing inferno.
Pioneer Jacob Hamblin recorded that he once saw Levi Stewart "in the fields praying. He was sobbing his heart out and asking his Maker to give him the strength to go on after the fire," said Searle Lansing Jones, sculptor of the statue. "He is a fitting person to honor."
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November 20th, 2018
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