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FIELD, Harold
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Headline: A Neglected Heritage-Many Area Monuments Stand Forgotten
Under photo reads: HISTORY COMES ALIVE for Harold Field, a Roy resident who helped construct this hidden monument to his mother and father who were early postmasters in Weber County. Mr. Fields has resisted efforts to move the marker.
By Richard Barnum-Reece
Standard Examiner Staff
Some stand forlorn and forgotten in the summer sun. The weeds grow thigh high, obscuring the events and people they commemorate.
“I’ve been worried about it,” Harold Field said, “A lot of people want to move it but I say it should stay right here where it belongs. What do you think?”
CATCH GLIMPSE
Mr. Fields is talking about the monument he built to commemorate his father, R. Orson Field, who with his mother, Margaret Jones Field, started the first post office in Weber County.
It’s not easy to catch a glimpse of it as you travel along the road down 2700 West near 6000 South in Roy.
But if you can see back off the road some 10 feet, behind the weeds and mound of dirt, the monument stands there, some six feet high.
“This is where the post office started and this is where the monument should be,” Mr. Fields said, leaning on his cane as he talked.
DIGNITY TARNISHED
But that monument, unlike some standing in the parks and cemeteries of Weber County, is unsightly. The dignity of the event it seeks to commemorate is tarnished because the area is no longer kept up.
Mr. Field, not as spry as he once was at 80 years, cannot do the work. “The scout troop said they were going to do something but I haven’t heard from them,” He said.
When the monument was dedicated in 1958 Gov. George Dewey Clyde and Roy Mayor O. Dean Parker attended. Now, few stop to look at the metal inscription cemented the rock.