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ST. GEORGE — Last year a Jeep ride on a dirt road in a remote part of Washington County, northwest of Gunlock, resulted in a string of events leading to the rededication of a grave site in the St. George Cemetery for a man who the dirt road was likely named after.
Moreover, the man whose name the road bore apparently had quite an impact on the county's history, as he served as the mayor of St. George, the Washington County attorney, a county commissioner, the president of the county fair and several other contributions, yet had an unmarked grave for over a century.
That changed thanks to Hal and Suezun Hilburn.
"It was very odd," Hal Hilburn said. "We couldn't believe a guy who had done all these things we were reading about, and he had no headstone. He was a great man."
