Show n k Wf r vrr did 1 i I y yr r tf 1 f r r Mrs Sarah Sprague Bates Rates Earl Early o Utah pioneer dies at 9 97 I Utah Ufah Pioneer Wom Woman n Dies Mrs l Sarah Sprague B Bates Bales tes 17 7 year oid pioneer Utahn died Friday Friday Fri Fri- day n morning in the hone home of a j I granddaughter Mrs Ralph Horton Horton Hor Hor- ton E E. South Murray lurra with ith wh whom m she lived She h had d dmore more tI than n living ng descendants Mrs Bales Bales' vivid v lisi memory went lent I back to the days when S Salt lt Lake City wa a no IJO J larger than Monroe e population 1300 where she spent serving s as a telegrapher I Ifor for 15 years year in the days before the first telephone came came t to Sevier Sev Se- Se v vier cr co County nty j Reminisces for for Hours She could reminisce for hours hours' j jover over those days days' days and and over th the 1 days when she shed used to skin deer and make d doeskin eskin gloves for resi resi- residents residents residents dents of oC the Monroe i vicinity Born in the first log cabi 1 built in Weber eber County a daughter 0 of Sprague and Sarah Ste well the native spen spent her childhood in many of the communities of Weber Ve er Salt Lake Lak and Washington 1 Counties and l literally lit t grew up with those com com- es When she and her hus- hus the band the late laic te Nephi James Tames BateS BateS' settled in Monroe 80 years ago i il was as still a young ung unsettled comp com The couple was married married J June ne 4 4 1870 1870 Leaves Monroe onroe j I When she she- left Monroe last fatto fat fall fali to li I live e in Murray Murray- she took with h her r the memory of 80 years well wel elt sp s' spent sent ent nt in n a community she an and andl her husband helped to colonize I tf Eight of her 12 sons and daugh daugh- daugh sun survive i T- T Te They e are arc Nephi j J. Jj J. B. B Bates les Richfield JI Harvey Bates Bated Glendale le Ca Cal Marion larion Bates Sa San t Diego Dego George E E. E Bates Logan Mrs 1 Clara Jones Monroe Mrs j Annie Bar Barkdull du and Mrs MabeL Martin both of Pocatello llo Ida IdaJ and Mrs Lillian Nielsen Nampa J Ida Also surviving sUf are arc rc 47 grand grandchildren grandi chil children rep and more than greats great gran grandchildren J h and great great-great g grandchildren t t t |