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Show An Old Citizen Gone. Provo Enquirer. Last Saturday evening Abram G. Cownover, one of tho first settlers of Provo, died at his residence in the Second ward, of bronchitis. He was the son of Peter Wilson and Evelino Golding Cownover. He was sixty years old. having been born May 18, 1830, in Morgan county. Illinois. Ho became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 188!), and aftor passing through many of the early persecutions of the churcn he came to Utah in 1848. In 1849 he came to Provo with his father, and these two may be called the founders of Provo, for they were the first whites who settled here. The Indian wars in Utah county are matters of history. his-tory. In many of these both father and son took an active part. During the San Pete war of 1804-5, Abram was tho captain of a volunteer company of cavalry. Afterwards he became chief of police in Provo and acted as Indian interpreter, having acquired ac-quired tho Ute dialect. He has held many other important positions both in a civil and a church capacity, among them being city councilor in Provo city and president of the Second ward teachers quorum. He was also a member mem-ber of the thirty-fourth quorum of the seventies. A wife, four sons, three daughtors aid a number of grandchildren are left to mourn bis loss, |