In May of 1859, nearly two years after the Mountain Meadows massacre, the corpses were still there. Charles Brewer was part of the Army detail that cleaned it up. Should that disqualify him from having a spring named after him? The LDS Church says yes.
A descendant of a pioneer the medic saved in 1859 wants spring named for Brewer, but LDS Church won’t oblige, citing ties to Confederacy and Mountain Meadows.
The U.S. Army surgeon made enough of an impression on James Simpson in 1859 that the overland surveyor named a remote spring in Tooele County after Brewer not long after he publicized one of the first accounts of thesite, where 120 California-bound immigrants from Arkansas were killed by a Mormon militia two years earlier.
Without property owners’ blessings, it is nearly impossible to get a new name attached to a geographical feature under the rules applied by the U.S.The hang-up, according to Carling, is Brewer’s participation in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy and in the initial burial of the Mountain Meadows victims.
A native of Annapolis, Maryland, Brewer had joined the Army as an assistant surgeon in 1856 and soon deployed to the Utah Territory where he was based at Camp Floyd. Around that time, Simpson and his survey team were heading into Utah from Genoa, Nevada, on their way back to Camp Floyd after marking a route for the Pony Express on the outbound trip along a more northerly path, according to Utah historian Jesse Petersen.
The attack left him with a head injury that seemed unsurvivable, but medical aid later rendered by Brewer likely saved Spencer, who would go on to live a long life. The young rancher happened to be the son of the founding chancellor of University of Utah, Orson Spencer, who had died a few years earlier.
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