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Show DEATH CALLSj A PIONEER WOMAN Mary Pearce Ballantyno, widow of fl tho late Richard Ballantjne, founder E of the Lnttor-day Saints Sunday I schools, died on Tuesday, November U 20, at 12-: 3S a. m., at tho residenco I of her daughter, Mrs Edward H I Anderson, Sugar ward. Salt Lake 1 City. I Mrs. Ballantync was born in Lon- I don, England, October 1, 1828, and fl was the daughter of Edward Pearco f and Elizabeth Bennett. She was a I pioneer of early dajs and came to I Utah In 1855, having joined the Mor- J mon church In February of 1819 in I her native land. She was married ' I to Richard Ballantync November 27, I 1S.", by President Brlgham Young fl When residing In Eden and Ogden, U in addition to the caro of her own 1 1 family, sho was largely engaged In ' I musing the sick, and her labors were a veritable messenger of comfort to I tho afflicted. j She was true to the faith all her I dayfl, in every trial and circumstance. E In example and speech sho ever bore I testimony to the divinity of tho Latter-day work. For the past 14 years, In her declining days, she had resided 1 1 with her daughter, who was as devoted de-voted to her as sho was to the work I of God and the service of her fellows fel-lows Sho had six children, all of whom survive her: Zecharlah Ballantyne of Rigby, Idaho; Ida-ho; Mary E B. Farr of Arizona, Jane B. Anderson of Sugar ward, Salt Lake, James E Ballantyne of Ogden. Eliza Eli-za A. Garner of Plain City, nnd He- I ber C. Ballantyne of Baker City, Oregon. Ore-gon. She has 18 living grandchildren and ; 23 grent-grandchildren. The funeral services will be announced an-nounced later. Funeral services will be held at 11 a. in. Saturday at the Sugar ward meeting house. Tho body will arrive ar-rive in Ogden over the Bamberger line at 3 o'clock and burled In Ogden City cemetery. nn |