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Show ' I Funeral Services For ; I Robert Grompton I Knrlj Settler mid Aged Veteran Is nt I Hurled Monday Eighty Ycnrs of r, I Age. I Funeral scrvlcoo for Robert fromp- ie I ton were held in tho Second Wnrd n I Chapel Monday. Dishop J. II. Storrs I presided and llio ward cliolr furnished I the music. Tho speakers were Wra. Y I Huntor, Prosldont S. L. Chlpman and 'm Dishop Storrs, who told of his povver- fill life and sturdy, honest character 1 I Di a man. John Davis sang n solo I and Prof. C. W. Hopkins played "Oh I My Father," as a violin solo. Tho In- vocation was by Dishop Warren D, I Sinltli and tho benediction by Isaac Wngstnff. I Robert Crompton was born August I 11, 1834, and died December 18, 1914. I Ho Joined the church in Nnuvoo, 111., I and was well acquainted with the I Prophet Joseph Smith. When tho I Saints wore driven out of N'auvoo he I with his parents, Thomas and Ellza- I beth Crompton, went to St. Louis. I Sovcral years later tho family moved to Utah and located In American Fork. Ho married Miss MIrah Martin, by whom ho had six children, John Fletcher Crompton of American Fork, Robert DeMct Crompton of Garland, Thomas Crompton of Pleasant Grove, Mrs. Ella Smith and Ethel nnd Francis Crompton of American Fork. Ho also had twenty-thrco grnnd-chll- drcn. Ho was a rugged farmer and noted for his honesty and devotion to his church. (In rcforrlng to Mr. Crompton's death in our last Issuo wo gave IiIb namo Thomas Darratt by mistake.) a |