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Show Tailor Dies at Age of 96 Funeral services for Samuel Smithers, 96, will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in the Anderson Ander-son Mortuary. Mr. Smithers died at Provo Wednesday of ailments incident in-cident to advanced age. The deceased was born January 7, 1838, in London, England', and married la Miss Jane Greenwood there. Later he went to the Hawaii- an Islands, where 'he lived for a number of years and there became . interested in the Latter-Day Saint gospel and decided to come to Utah I to further investigate. He came to I this state and opened up a tailor I shop in Schofield, later moving to j Provo, and then fifteen years ago j came to this city w"here he worked ! with E. J. Seastrand for four years. He then set up a small tailoring . establishment of his own but his j eyesight was beginning to fail and j he moved his shop onto the Ed I Conder lot where he lived for a few years until it was deemed best to have him cared for at the county coun-ty infirmary where he has been for the past three years. Mr. Smithers was a verteran of the Crimean War of 1859, in which he was wounded. It is supposed there are children surviving in England Eng-land but efforts to locate them of late have not been successful. Bishop G. Edward Abel of the Third ward will be in charge of the services and burial will be made in the cemetery here. r |