Show DEATH OP OF MRS CALVERT Mrs Sallie Morgan Calvert died at ather ather her home in Myton 1 near the tho the historic Duchesne Bridge last Monday after after- noon The Immediate cause use of death was vas The funeral was vas held in n the Presbyterian church Tuesday afternoon Rev John Meeker pastor of or the church preached the sermon and he paid a high tribute to the pioneer woman who rested there in front font of oC the pulpit in a beautiful casket all covered with flowers The cluster that outshone the rest was a a heliotrope wreath her favorite favorit color colof woven by her long life and Intimate friend Mrs George E. E Adams of Vernal Another was a the he body made of the red petals and und the wings of the green leaves of or orthe the lie geranium which she brought with her from California This This' old fashioned flower finished blooming the he day she died Just in time to ea- ea serve Music was furnish furnish- by y a ladies double quartet composed of or Mrs C. C P. P Dauwalder Miss Alice Allce Todd Mrs W W. E. E Wheeler Mrs J J. J A. A Cederquist Miss Merle Stewart Miss Pearl Ireland Miss Mildred Meeker Miss Nellie Fowler A solo by Miss Stewart The pall bearers were or vere E E. E M. M Jones R. R E E. E Waugh R RL tt R. I L. L Hudd R. R J. J Enochs Will R. R reece C. C B. B Cook Burial was In the Dayton Myton cemetery Almost forty years ago Mrs Calvert Calvert Cal Cal- vert came to the Uintah h Indian reservation res res- At that time there were were not to exceed 50 60 white people between between between be be- tween the Sandridge and Wasatch mountains Uintah and Those whites were either government government government govern govern- ment employees or post traders Haydon Calvert and Miss SalUe Sallie Morgan were married June JUDe 9 1880 at their home town Harrodsburg Kentucky Immediately they went to Junction City in the same state where for a short time Mr Calvert was engaged in business Ho He then came hero here to take charge charse of ot the post trading store at Whiterocks He came in by way of Evanston Wyom Wyom- Wyoming ing the only way open at that time Ume A year or so later his wife Joined him But then there was a new way open A trail from Price to Vernal miles mUes had been blazed and she came that way In a buckboard The famous Camous Concord coach had not yet appeared on this reservation It came however very soon One historic historic his hs- stopping place when Mrs Calvert Calvert Calvert Cal Cal- Cal Cal- vert made the trip was Brocks Brock's n now w the Preston Nutter place in thirty five or forty miles mUes south of us As above stated that was nearly forty years ago She was merging you might say Into a vigorous ls young womanhood Only a little past twenty ne An age when plans ire arc made ma e an and l dreams are dream dreamed d. d For nearly forty years she was was a part of this wonderful no noone no noone one person pei son contributed more to its growth and development than she contributed She had time while rearing a family to attend to busi busl- ness nesa For years as is well known all over this state she followed the hotel botel business while her husband attended attended attended at at- tended to his his his' mercantile and cattle business She made money In the hot hotel l business Much of it she in invested invested invested in- in vested espe especially lally in later years ears In and today she leaves scores o of town lots lota In Myton and perhaps GOO acres of or farming land She invested In life liCe insurance and paid puid out at least two year twenty-year endowment endowment endowment en en- policies She grubstaked many a prospector Hundreds yes thousands of dollars she invested In various stock schemes Thousands Thousands Thousands Thou Thou- sands doubtless she lost This great country she loved She Sho may havo have become weary now and then but she loved It It She loved its towering white capped mountains s from Crom whose sides flowed crystal streams She loved Its broad expansive expansive expansive sive low lands and benches She Sho do de lighted in Its blue skies its bright stars Its fresh and invigorating air While she loved all this there was one thing she yet wanted to see before before before be be- fore the tho final summons came me Though born near the big oceans ocean's brink she never nevor had seen It Fate willed that she sho should not see the Atlantic but she saw the Pacific She spent tho the winter In San Diego From the Calverta moved mo to Deep creek where they had land and cattle After a year they went to Vernal where for tor a short time they conducted a hotel Then they came camo to My Nylon Myton ton and in 1902 Mr Calvert opened up a post trading store at Duchesne Bridge Mrs Calvert went into the hotel busi busI- ness She was a woman of iron nerve and of oC Indomitable courage A few y days before the opening of tho the Indian In- In Indian Indian In In- dian reservation August 1905 a afire afire I fire destroyed her hor log logy hotel In the middle of or the afternoon the buildIng building build build- bUild I Ing and its contents were in ashes She didn't sit down and fold her lier I hands an and cry she sho went to work I I and aUlI in some way out ont In the open she served supper to scores of men who had come to file on homesteads And she served breakfast and amI din din- ner Soon she sho had a row of tents Early settlers well remember what whal she did here to help build up this town and its Institutions She Sho was was first in most things She was Iden idea Identified with tho the W. W C C. C T. T U. U the library libra libra- ry association the Ue Red Cross the the- cemetery association Ladles Aid During the world war she sacrificed and bought bon bonds s. s All AIl her life she was accustomed to a lavishly laden table but when tho the word came to cat eat meat and white bread sparingly so that the soldier r might have more she willingly obeyed She was for years a social leader lender and well weIl domany do domany t many old timers remember her wonderful wonderful won dinners and entertainments Deceased was born April 27 27 1859 at Harrodsburg KeI Kentucky She was wa wasa i a a. descendent of the famous Morgans Morsans of Virginia To the Calvert an and Morgan Norgan Nor Mor gan union were born George Mornan Mornan Mor Mol nan Sallie Gore John Morgan Jack Jach Shinn Chinn Besides these children and amI twenty grand children she leaves the following step-children step Ira Calvert Pearl Clark and Cecil CecH Cal Cal- vert Her lIer husband nd died a n low few years ago ugo 0 0 |