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Show A NOTED PIONEER PASSES TO REWARD Noah T. Guymon passed from this life in a peaceful sleep last Saturday night at ..he home of his daughter, Mrs. A. G. Jewkes in Orangeville. He had been failing for a week but was not really sick. As he was nearly 92 years of age his death was no doubt due to that cause. Noah T. Guymon was one of the early pioneers and had a rich store of recollections recol-lections of the early days of the Mormon churcn. tie was one oc the few still in existance who was an associate of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and from that time along down to the presenc he has been one of the true pioneers of the church. He came Co Utah about the year 1850 and has helped to Duild the towns of Springville, Fountain Green, Huntington and Orangeville. At the latter place he has resided for tne past twenty years. He is cne lather of four families of children and as tney have grown and multiplied there is host of children, grand-children and great-granu-children to mourn tor him as well as friends and acquaintances in many places. Asiae from Utan his decendants can be found in Mexico, New Mexico, Idaho and perhaps per-haps other states. Mr. Guynun was one of those grand old men who have lived Lhe lite of his faith and been as faithful to every other trust. As one of the early settlers in Utah he has faced many hardships on the plains and in the settlement of the country. At several of the towns he has done his si are towaid making them the garden spots they are today. To such men as this who have been faithful to the church and state for years and years these institutions have no reward, their reward lies farther on beyond the point where man's sight fails and his fakh alone points the way to better things. |