SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — As many are anticipating that President Russell M. Nelson will be buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery, ABC4 decided to take a look at some of the notable figures buried in this historic cemetery.

The Salt Lake City Cemetery is the largest city-owned cemetery in the country, at a size of 120 acres. The first burial took place in 1848, before the incorporation of Salt Lake City in 1851, and there are 130,000 burial sites in the cemetery.

According to the Salt Lake City website, the cemetery was developed during the rural cemetery movement, which used landscaping in a park-like setting for cemeteries and created America's first public parks.

The first person buried in the cemetery was Mary Wallace in 1848, the young daughter of George Wallace, a recently arrived p

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