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Show Early Pioneer Dead. Mrs. Mary Orgile, one of the early ear-ly pioneers of Utah, died Thursday October 3rd, 1912, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emma Orgile, of .Mills, Juab County, Utah. Mrs. Orgile was a former and well respected resident of Mt. Pleasant, having made this city her home up until just a few years ago, when she disposed of her home and went to reside with her daughter. Mrs. Orgile was born in Denmark, in 1837 and joined the Latterday Saints' church while a young girl. She came to America and crossed the plains with the hand-cart company. She was the mother of seven children, chil-dren, two of whom survive her, a son and daughter, William Christof-ferson Christof-ferson of Eureka and Mrs. Emma Orgile of Mills, and ten grand-children to mourn her departure. Funeral services were held at. the North Ward meeting-house, Sunday at 3 o'clock, Bishop H. C. Jacobs presiding. pre-siding. Thomas West, Daniel Ras-mussen, Ras-mussen, John Carter and Bishop H. C. Jacobs were the speakers, paying pay-ing beautiful tributes to rhe memory of her noble character and the life ot usefulness which she lived during her stay of 75 years with her friends on earth. Interment was made in the Mount Pleasant cemetery. |