Show DEATH OF PIONEER Mrs Louisa Chase McLaughlin Passes Away at Provo Mrs Irs Louisa Louia Chase McLaughlin ono one of oC the pioneers who crossed the desert In 1847 died yesterday afternoon at the home of her sister Mrs A L Tanner of Provo Mrs McLaughlin was wag 73 years old and has lived In Salt Lake and Provo Prove since she arrived in 1847 She was 13 years old when she drove the team of oxen across the plains In Inthe the jime wagon she drove were the tle mill millstones stones used to grind the first wheat produced in the Utah valley Her father con constructed the first mill in Utah near where Liberty park now is Mrs McLaughlin is survived b by four children Detective George Chase Mrs Irs Mary Iary Tanner Mrs Irs Phoebe Welling and amI Willard McLaughlin Death was due to cancer The funeral announce announcement announcement ment will be made later |