February 9, 2009

Just a few hundred yards off Interstate 540, near the small community of Rudy (Crawford County), rests a granite memorial honoring Parley Parker Pratt, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1857, Pratt was murdered in a domestic squabble in nearby Alma (Crawford County). He is believed to be buried at the monument site shown here, though a 2008 exhumation at the site failed to find any trace of his remains.