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Show PIONEER, J7ITII MARY. DESCENDANTS, DIES -,' -. ... . i . . ' -.. Mrs. Jane McCune Gardner, one of Utah' oldest pioneers, with 111 living descendants, died yesterday at tb residence resi-dence of, her daughter, Mrs, Margaret Miller, ltt gandy.' v Mrs. Gardner, who was 81 years '. bid, -came to Utah In Bishop Hunter's company in 1817, but a few months after the arrival of the first settlersV . The deceased was the mother of twelve children, nine of whom are living, seventy-one grandchildren, thirty great-, grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild, so that Just beore her death there were five generations of her family alive. Reuben Q. Miller, president of the Emery Stake of the church; Bishop N. a. Miller of Murray and James Gardner, counselor to Bishop C. F. Chrlstensen, are among her posterity. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. , . |