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Show Mrs. Seaman, 99 Dies After Short Illness vrfif .? iKT3$ Mrs. Alice Wright Seaman, 99-year-old resident of Cedar City, died at the home of her son Frank W. Seaman Friday night, bringing to a close, almost a century of active life. Mrs. Seaman, Sea-man, Iron county's oldest citizen and one of the state's most colorful color-ful characters, succumbed following fol-lowing only a short illness. When Mrs. Seaman greeted her many friends at a birthday celebration cele-bration in January honoring the popular lady on her nlnety-nineth birthday anniversary, she was feeling fine and predicted that she would welcome them again when she reached her hundredth anniversary. However, her health had failed gradually since until she became seriously 111 a short time ago. For a number of years she had amazed her friends with activity and optomistlc interest in life In general. She was born in London, England, Eng-land, on January 22, 1849, a daughter of Robert Richard and Emma Beeson Wright. At the age of 14 she sailed to America with an older brother and was forced to w'ait in New York for months until her parents and the remainder of her family arrived. ar-rived. Together they walked from the Missouri river to Salt Lake City, convert members of the L D S church. She worked in homes of Salt lake City as a young girl for 25c cents per day, attended church schools, and was married to John Whitehead Seaman in the old Salt Lake endowment house in 1870. The year following they were sent by President Brigham Young as missionaries to help settle northern Arizona and southwestern southwest-ern Utah. Due to the severity of Indian warfare In Arizona, the group was called back to Kanab, where Mr. and Mrs. Seaman settled set-tled and spent 30 years. During a portion of this period, Mrs. Seaman Sea-man ran a small general store In Long Valley and was postmistress. postmis-tress. Later they .moved to Pan-guitch, Pan-guitch, and In 1924 they came to Cedar City. Mr. Seaman died in February, 1930. Widow of a civil war veteran, she had taken an active Interest in veteran's affairs and was honored hon-ored annually on her birthday in recent years by members of the American Legion Auxiliary. Always active in L D S church work, Mrs. Seaman had been particularly prominent In Relief Society work wherever she was making her home. She is survived by three sons: Frank W. Seaman, Cedar City; Fred Seaman, Panguitch, and Robert Seaman, St. George; one daughter, Mrs. Lucy Levanger, Spanish Fork; 41 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren, and nine great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed Tuesday afternoon In the Second Se-cond Ward Chapel with Leo Palmer, Bishop's counsellor, presiding. pre-siding. Speakers at the services were William R. Palmer, Fred Maeser and II. II. Lunt. Invocation was by Robert Seaman, and benediction benedic-tion by Giles Bolander. The musical program included includ-ed the opening song, "Sweet Home", by a mixed quartet composed com-posed of Maude Halversen, Barbara Bar-bara Albertson, Myles Walker and Ray Cosslett, accompanied by Mrs. Virginia Larson; a vocal solo, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought", by Ray Cosslett, accompanied ac-companied by Mrs. Larson, and a vocal duet, "Coin' Home", by Rocd Roberts and Herschel M. Neeley. Preliminary music was by Mrs. Virginia Larson at the piano, and Mrs. Bernella Jones at the organ. |
