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Show Pioneer Woman Given Birthday Fete by Family Mrs. Miranda Seely Oman, an original settler of Mt. Pleasant, was honored at a family dinner and social Wednesday afternoon in celebration of her 75th birthday. birth-day. In addition to members oi her family, many old friends and neighbors called during the day to extend felicitations. Mrs. Oman was born in San Bernardino, California, on June 15, 1857, and came with her parents, par-ents, Justus Wellington and Clarissa Clar-issa Jane Wilcox Seely, to Mt. Pleasant with the first group of settlers in March, 1859. She was married in the endowment endow-ment house in Salt Lake, December Decem-ber 29, 1877, to Christian F. Peel . and they were the parents of six children. Mr. Peel died Decembei 17, 1894, and she was married to A. J. Oman, February 21, 1899 in the Manti L. D. S. temple. He died in 1916. Mrs. Oman has been an active church and community worker. She was the second president of tne local Y. L. M. I. A., and has been a Relief society ward teacher for nearly 40 years. She Is also a competent nurse, tjot only among her own large family, but to those of the community generally. During Dur-ing the flu epidemic iri 1918 she labored unceasingly among the stricken families. She has three sons: County Commissioner O. F. Peel, P. A. and John Peel, and a daughter, Mrs. Arthur F. Rasmussen, all of Mt. Pleasant; a foster daughter, Mrs. Canute Beal, Manti, and 33 grandchildren. |