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Show (ANOTHER PIONEER LAIDT0 REST .'Irs. Agues Crookston, Whose Father Hutlt tho First Threshing Mnehluo in This City, Passed Awy 8hui1h, After nil Illness Lasting Tiro Years. Mrs. Agnes Crooks-Crookston, wife of Ocorgo Crookston, passed txway at tho family residence nt 10 o'clock Sunday Sun-day night. Sha hnd been ailing for tho past two years and had been bedfast bed-fast for ten days. Sho was one ot the pioneers of tho stnto and ono ot tho first settlers of Amorlcnn Fork, her father making and operating tho first threshing machine In this locality. Sho wns born In Dysart, Fyftcshlro, Scotland, May 2, 1845, and enmo to Nauvoo, 111., with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thotnns Crooks, when but a llt-tlo llt-tlo child. After living In Salt Lnko City for a short tlmo tho family moved to American Fork, which has since been their home. Sho was married to Ocorgo Crookston Crooks-ton November 1, 1803. Ten children woro a result of thin union, six of whom havo died. Thoso living arc: Mr. Jano Youngman of Santa Monica, Cal., Miss Nellie Crookston, John Crookston and Raymond Crookston, all of this city. Tho exact dato of tho funeral of Mis. Crookston has not yot been do-rlibjd do-rlibjd upon, pending tho arrival of a daughter from California nnd n son from Fish Springs. |