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Show PIONEER IIH IS SUMMONED 61 DEATH Mrs. Sarah F.ell peacock, an early Ftah p'oneer, died Friday morning it the home of her daughter, Mrs Olhia P. Burns in this city. Mrs. Peacock was the daughter of William Bell and Sarah Prereton, and was born in Liverpool, Eng'and, lulv 2H. IS:'.!!. Her father, who was an English sea captain and n.-ied navigator died from yellow fever en ihe coast of Africa in 1S47. leaving widow and two small daughters. Mir.ng Orson Piatt's mission to 'llaud n "io late forties, the family embraced the T,. P. S. fa Mb. ami on 'e Years Day 1S50 failed from I'.ng'ac.d on the sailing vessel "Argo". They landed at New Orleans eight weeks later, and spent the next three ears. working and preparing them-srlves them-srlves for tire trek over the plains. They arrived in Salt Lake in the fall of 1S5S with Captain Tidwells com-riiny. com-riiny. A year later the family moved lo P:ovo and here Mrs. Peacock and her sister, who were noted singers, ang much in public and Mrs. Pea-r:-k became a member of the first dramatic company o'ganized in 1-tovo with John Ni'ttall, John li.il-h'rd. li.il-h'rd. Charles SimniiMis Tom Burnett Mrs. Mc Enan and others. In the family moved to Manti :iud hern Mrs. Peacock was a member of Ihe tVi's-t choir and the first itramat.ic co-mpany organized in Manti On December 2. 185-i she vas mai-ried to Judce Geoip.e Peacock of Manti and to this union were born lo rh'ldren. Her husban.! died in i and she reared her family alone SIt- vas an ardent church worker and seived ten years as counselloi in Ihe Manti South wa-d relief 0'.i-iv and was a wv.'krr for many vi-nrs in the Man't Tempi i. She has one l- Ihe. most complete to--rds of her anceslary on -both her father's and mother's side tracing bi'ck to ihe oar IKI0. She is survived by two sons and. three daiiThters, Warren S. Peacock of Price, Williaiiin G. Peacock of Orangeville, Mrs. Helen Kilpnek of Idaho Falls, Mrs. Velora Funk of Reno Nev. and Mri. Olivia P- Hums of Ml. Pleas;nl and also by fifty -rami children, sixty two great-grand children, and four great greal grand children. She has lived nearly thirty one years wilh '-or daughter. Mrs. Burns. Owing to the prevailing (Uarentine ; in Mt. Pleasant no funeral services ' en,, be held here, but a graveside 1 service will be held in Ihe Manti 1 eeino' iry Sunday ofternoon. FORF.ST NOT MS Office Visitors Dm I or Kienholtz of the Univorsi y of llliomvis was an office viutor on - Sop '.ember C. Doclor Kienholtz spent. Ihe season of 1920 assisting Doclo.- Sa-mpson at the Great Basin Ivv-porime i' Rial Ion. He is now Professor of Botany in the University of Illinois. Miss Luelbi Chrisleir-ien, a former Forest Clerk in the Fphraim office, was a visitor on SeptemberC. Miss Clu-islensen is now working In the off ce o-f Gi-azing in Ogden. |