Show Duchesne Woman Passes Milestone January 1 DUCHESNE Emma Birch of Duchesne observed her birthday January 15 at the home of a Warren in Wyoming She was honored at a family Mrs Birch has been a Duchesne resident since She was born in Cache Utah She moved to Moab with her Leonard L. and Alice in when she was 5 years At that the Sylvester Wilson family was the ony other white family in the Shortly after moving to the Hol-brooks sought refuge from the Navaho and Apache Indians in the old Mormon Fort at This was during the uprising Mrs Birch's father told a story of how six year-old Emma saved the lives of the early Moab pioneers by intruding into a war council tent and smoking the pipe of peace with the Indian She was married to Warren Stocks April in They lived at until when they moved to where Stocks died in February After his Mrs Stocks came to Here she married James Birch in March He died in Mr Stocks have six sons and They are Warren Emmo Myrtle Morro Alice Long Calif Ella and San ford Salt Lake Birch has 26 43 great-grandchildren and one great-great She is spending the winter months in Wyoming at the home of her |