A team of archeologists led by Weber State University professor LeGrand Davies failed to find the controversial Mormon leaders bones or even a tooth. They expected to find the remains at less than a yard below ground.

Ground-penetrating radar had found evidence of a road and tree near which the grave was supposed to lie.

Robert Grow, Pratt's great-great-great-grandson, says:

The passage of time and the shallowness of the grave have left no specific identifiable human remains. This was a possibility and the family always understood that.

What I learned was there were people here who were good to Parley and folks who treated him well. They saw that he got a good burial.