SURVIVOR OF OLD BATTALION DIES Word has been heen received here of the death in Parker Ida of Mrs re Phoebe Lodema Thompson one of the two surviving surviving sur sur- women of the old Mormon lormon bat bat- She Sho was 77 i years old When the Mormon battalion was called in into to service in 1846 Phoebe Merrill as she he c was kno known n then joined as 15 a nurse She was 15 years old ola Under r Colonel St St. George the battalion reached Santa Fc Fe Jet many of them sick sirk and suffering anu and andall all Ill showing the effects of almost t unspeakable un hardships The sick ick and torI wounded he dispatched under Captain James Brown Drown to Pueblo I at that time a Mexican fort There they the remained during the years cars 1816 and 1847 Attack after attack made was wa upon A the fort b. b by Indians and Mexicans but hut f 11 1 bv iy mustering ng up all strength possible S ithe the tue sieges es were withstood Then the little bud band took up the trail made b by Dri Brigham bam Young ansi and his pioneers and anil came rame to this n valley 11 e. e arriving ing hero heroo o days day after the first party part of oC emi emi- grants nt Mr Mrs n. n Thomp Thompson lived in this thi city it the i J remainder of her life The Tho solo ole noman woman worn nom an survivor or of that famous battalion now ow is Mrs Mr hl Albina Altina Williams I of siC Soda Sprin Springs Ida She i is 82 years ear old The Tho funeral of Mrs Thompson was wasI r I held neld this mornin morning at Parker