(Pictures: Camp Floyd in 1859 and Camp Floyd Cemetery)
The United States Army, Mormon Pioneers, Stagecoach Travelers, and the Pony Express met at Camp Floyd and the town of Fairfield. The Army arrived in 1858 and constructed Camp Floyd to suppress a supposed Mormon rebellion. The Army remained here for three years before being recalled for the Civil War. Today, Camp Floyd State Park features three structures and a cemetery. Visit the museum and Stagecoach Inn and learn about this nationally important historic site. (Excerpt from Camp Floyd Museum website).
In 1857 Cyrus took his wives and their children to Richfield, Utah because of the threat of Johnson’s army (which settled at Camp Floyd), that came west because of false rumors circulated in the east by the enemies of the church. They took what they could haul with them in wagons and drove their cattle and other animals ahead of them. They left their growing crops with enough men to burn them and their homes, if it meant letting them fall into the hands of their enemies. (Cyrus Tolman: Father, Frontiersman, Pioneer by Loraine Tolman Pace, Second Edition, 2006, page 31).