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Show !ELAM FOOTS, MANY YEARS RESIDENT OF 1 MILFORD, DIES IN S. L. ; Elam Fouts, for twenty years a re-. re-. sident of this county, died in Salt . Lake City Saturday evening, following follow-ing a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. Fouts went to Salt Lake a couple of weeks . ago and while there was taken ill. However, he had apparently recovered recover-ed and was preparing to return to Milford when he suffered a stroke and passed away suddenly. Elam Fouts was born in West Milton, Mil-ton, Ohio, August 4, 1870. He came west about thirty-five years ago and located in Colorado. Later he moved to Utah and spent several years in and around Lehi and American Fork. From there he moved to Idaho where he remained a few years. It was while he was in Idaho that he was united in marriage to Miss Marie Soronsen, who survives him. Mr. Fouts and wife came to Milford in 1911, locating first in Minersville, later taking up land now known as the Fouts ranch on the Beaver-Mil-ford highway. About the year 1920 Mr. Fouts moved to Milford where he has since made his home. He owned a number of pieces of residence property pro-perty in this city and spent most of his time looking after his local interests. in-terests. Besides the wife, who was with him at the time of his death, he is survived by a daughter by a former I marriage, who resides in Salt Lake City, and who accompanied the remains re-mains back to his old home in Ohio for burial. He also leaves one brother broth-er who resides in Paradise, California; Califor-nia; another brother and two sisters living in Ohio. Mrs. Fouts, who is in poor health, was unable to accompany ac-company the remains east. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Wynaught went to Salt Lake Sunday upon learning of Mi. .Foufls' death, and assisted in making arrangements for the sending send-ing of the body to Ohio, and brought Mrs. Fouts home with them. The latefl is staying at the Wynaught home for the present. |