Utah Department of Administrative Services

Division of Archives & Records Service

Benjamin Cemetery Maintenance District (Utah)

17793--Orders and decrees
28276--Sexton's records
28288--Burials list

AGENCY: Benjamin Cemetery Maintenance District (Utah)

SERIES: 17793
TITLE: Orders and decrees
DATES: 1953-1956
ARRANGEMENT:

DESCRIPTION: These are a signed authorization to dig graves. They are used to guarantee a body is interred in a specific burial plot and to generate the interment and lot records. They include time order was received, deed number, date, lot owner's name, authorization signature, address and telephone number, name of person being interred, location of grave by plot, block, grave number, and tier.

RETENTION

Retain 2 years.

DISPOSITION

Destroy.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 2 years and then destroy.

APPRAISAL

Administrative

This disposition is based on Utah Municipal General Records Retention Schedule, Schedule 17, Item 4.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public


AGENCY: Benjamin Cemetery Maintenance District (Utah)

SERIES: 28276
TITLE: Sexton's records
DATES: ca. 2000
ARRANGEMENT: By topic, thereunder by name or lot number.

DESCRIPTION: This series is a compilation of information about the Benjamin Cemetery created by Diane R. Parkinson. The series includes a brief history of the cemetery, a list of plot owners and those interred in each plot, an alphabetical list of those buried in the cemetery, a list of veterans buried in the cemetery, and various obituaries. This compilation is used as a primary tool for tracking the location and identity of burials in the cemetery.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

Retain in agency custody.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office permanently.

Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

M-Disk: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

This disposition is based on Utah Municipal General Records Retention Schedule, Schedule 17, Item 5.

This series has permanent historical value as documentation of the history of the Benjamin Cemetery and the individuals buried there.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public


AGENCY: Benjamin Cemetery Maintenance District (Utah)

SERIES: 28288
TITLE: Burials list
DATES: ca. 1876-2007
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by name.

DESCRIPTION: This series contains a printed list of burials in the cemetery. The list includes information such as the name of the deceased, birth place and date, death place and date, and location of grave.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office permanently.

Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

M-Disk: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

This series has permanent historical value as documentation of burials in the cemetery.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public