Huntsman travels to Fillmore to deliver his first State of the State address as governor of Utah, back to a place of his youth and home to the land of his pioneer ancestors.

"I don't know how I'm going to do it without emotionally being a little bit unstable," the governor said of the speech.

The war memorial north of the Millard County Courthouse contains the names of Huntsmans and other ancestors. Headstones in the Fillmore graveyard also are chiseled with those names.

"My whole family tree is represented there in Fillmore," said Huntsman. "It's where I learned how to drive a car, learned how to shoot a gun, fish."

The Territorial Statehouse Museum has prepared a special room with photos of Huntsman's ancestors. Among them are four great-great-great-great grandparents, and plenty of others since that generation.

"Gabriel Huntsman was among the second group of men that came here and settled Fillmore," said L. Knox Huntsman of Fillmore, first cousin twice removed from the governor and a family genealogist. Gabriel is the governor's great-great-great grandfather. Gabriel's father, James, also settled in Fillmore.

The Huntsmans owned several businesses in town, including a mercantile (now an auto-parts store on Main Street) and the Huntsman hotel, which burned down in 1938.

"It was the greatest saloon in the entire state," Jon Huntsman Jr. said. "It was a very famous watering hole."

A replica of the hotel is now located at This Is the Place State Park in Salt Lake City.

Another relative, Nellie M. Huntsman, was instrumental in restoring the Territorial Statehouse as a museum.