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Show Callao Settler Dies in Salt Lake Ephraim Lewis, of Callao, died Monday in a Salt Lake City hospital, hos-pital, at the age of fifty-nine years. Mr. Lewis was born April 2, 1887, in Bench Creek, Wasatch County, a son of John and Ellen Jane Thayne Lewis. He spent some years as a boy living in Holden, and as a voung man went to Ibapah, where he lived 8 years, and the past 27 years his home has been in Callao. He was married in Salt Lake City in 1911 to Victoria Stewart. Mr. Lewis has made a number of visits in Delta, for trading and on business, and two years ago he and Mrs. Lewis made their home in Delta from January until May, when they went back to Callao. Two of their daughters attended high school here. He is survived by his widow, and five children, a son, Charles E. Lewis, Lew-is, Callao, and four daughters, Dawna Lewis, Callao, Cora Sabey, Mrs. Mearna Lee and Mrs. Leah Lee, Wendover, and seven grandchildren; grand-children; a brother, James Lewis, American Fork, and sisters, Mrs. Edith Carlisle Kamas, and Mrs. Emelia Hansen, Boise, Idaho. His passing is also mourned by a large circle of friends, who valued their association with him. Funeral services will be held in Ibapah on Thursday at 1 p. m., under the direction of L. N. Nickle and sons, and burial will be in the Ibapah cemetery. |