Oldest Utah Mother Dies 4 Q t 7 I L c 3 F mw- mw Mrs Almed D. D McClellan 1 oldest Utah mother and seventh oldest mother in the United States who died Thursday night Mrs l McClellan with lIvin living descendants had the greatest posterity of the 48 oldest mothers mothen in ill the tho United States Pioneer r Woman of National Recognition Succumbs at Salt Lake Home at Age of Years Mrs Almeda Day McClellan UtaI the oldest year old pioneer mother in Utah and the seventh oldest mother in the United States died Thursday at 1150 p. p m. m at the home of son oilier her son George A. A McClellan Haze Hazel str street Mrs who last fast June was given this recognition by the General Federation of Women's Clubs at Seattle Seat Scat tle tic Wash also was said to have the great greatest t posterity posterity descendants descendants- of any of the 48 oldest mothers in the United States f f The aged ged f who was married about the time sourdoughs began digging gold In California in I 1849 had witnessed the events of a century of progress in the western United States Born November 28 1831 at Leeds Upper Canada a daughter of Hugh Day and Rhoda Ann Nichols Mrs McClellan Mc Mc- Clellan moved to New York York with with her family and affiliated with the L. L D. D S S. S church in 1836 She later moved to Nauvoo m. m where her mother died in hi 1844 Sh She was married Juh 19 1849 to I William Carrol McClellan a member of the Mormon n battalion She and her husband came to Salt Lake valley as ns pioneers in October 1850 arriving with William Snows Snow's company Their first child a daughter was only 6 weeks old when they began the trek After residing in Salt Lake for a year the family moved to Payson In 1851 and resided d there for 25 years At the request of Brigham Young t they ey moved to Sunset Sunset- Ariz in 1877 where they took an nn active part in building that community Mrs McClellan also had resided in Mexico during the civil war of 1912 and a short time later returned to Payson Pason where until 1916 1016 when she again went vent to Mexico For the past four lour years she had resided resided re re- resided sided in Salt Lake with her daughter Mrs Cynthia L L. Bailey and her son George A. A Mcclellan MANY DESCEND DESCENDANTS Surviving are descendants five sons and four daughters Mrs Marian Marlah MarianM M rot Hatch Colonia Juarez Mexico Mrs Bailey Mrs Rhoda A A. Cardon El EI P Paso so Texas and Mrs Sarah Evaline Bailey Utah James J. J McClellan Utah David A. A McClellan Mesa Ariz Samuel Edwin McClellan Colonia Colonia Celonia Co Co- lonia Juarez Chihuahua Mexico George A. A McClellan Salt Lake and Charles CharlesE E. E McClellan Logan a brother broth er or Lorenzo Day Hunter Utah 32 33 grandsons 48 granddaughters great grandsons great grand daughters daughters- 35 great grandsons and md 40 great Funeral services will Im be conducted Sunday at 4 p m. m in the Twelfth Twelfth-Thir L. L D. D S S. S ward chapel Friends may call at the home of ot her granddaughters grand daughters Mrs Frank Q Robinson 1077 Fourth East street Sunday from 10 a. a m. m to p. p m. m