Native American burial in Adams Canyon and some Layton Indian tales

                                  A rockslide area near the mouth of Adams Canyon.

AT least one Native American is buried in Adams Canyon, east of Layton, Utah.
According to the history of Elias Adams (by Harris Adams), "An Indian boy ten years old died and was buried in the rock slide on the sunny side of Adams Canyon."
It also stated that Elias Adams, an early Layton settler, "placed a a green oak bough in the ground at each corner of the grave which greatly pleased the Indians."
The "Sunny" side of the canyon would probably be the north side, where there is also a large rock slide near the mouth of the canyon.
This probably happened in the late 1850s, or early 1860s.

                                       The foothills around the mouth of Adams Canyon.

Elias Adams treated the local Indians with kindness and sometimes fed them.
-At a different time, when Elias was not home, a group of Indians came to his home when only his wife and children were there. His family stayed outside as the Indians went inside. They found a plate of newly churned butter on the table and surmised it to be a new kind of warpaint. They spread it all over their face and bodies and left the area, looking like greased pigs in the bright sunshine. (Retold in the Children's Friend Magazine of July 1941.)

-At still another time, probably in the late 1850s, about 50 Indian braves on horseback circled some of the few homes scattered about in the Layton area at the time. Malinda Adams, one of Elias Adam's two wives, saw the invasion and put her family in a wagon and took off in the opposite direction.
When the Indians caught up to them, there laughing and carrying on as if it was a good joke. The leader came up to Malinda and pointed at her and said, "White squaw heap scared. Sure can holler."