FINAL RITES HELD FOR SOUTHERN SOUTH ERN UTAH PIONEER Funeral services were held In St. St George Monday for Mrs Laura E E. Chaffin Allen 87 81 pioneer of Southern Utah and a former re- re of Cedar Cedar- City was sho-was- the thelast f last known widow w of a Mormon I II battalion member In Utah I Mrs Allen was born on December December Decem Decem- ber 31 1850 at St. St Joseph I Decem-I Mo ad a d daughter of Louis Chaffin She came to Utah In 1852 and moved to Dixie with the first company In 1861 Her father owned a grist gristmill gristmill mill and a cotton gin which he was asked to set up at St. St Thomas In the Muddy Valley He lost all he had there when the fort was burned burned burned burn burn- ed and latter established another grist mill at Cedar City The deceased married Rufus C. C Allen a Mormon Monnon Battalion veteran veter veter- veteran an in 1885 and settled in St. St George where she had resided since