| Show F. F M. M Shafer Dies in Provo i 1 Fran Marion Marn Shafer S S. ow on 1 I if i ami d rI Grand county's b bo t known Inon old olt time lIm citizens citizen died til al I home hom of his hi daugh laugh or tr et and andIon Ion son law in law Mr l and Mrs John SIl Sullivan II an In Proto Pro on I March tarch arch U to 10 lie He Heas Was as horn burn Feb t ID 19 ati at i I Indiana and came rame to this ara ari when when- he heal was al 18 IS years ld h ii spent the remain remain- Iler der of his lift I luring During his life Mr Shafer Shufer led leda a very active life In th this Is area arpa bei being og in interested I I ei I in ii ml mining n lug postmaster for 27 years a coun ty official for tor sc se years years- Cars manager of a i mercantile hus business busl- busl net ness ness and in later years ears a tombstone maker I I It Jr In Mr Shafer and his 1 brother left Indiana Indiana going overl into tto N Nebraska br sk nd Colorado At LS L'S springs In 1883 1888 they met a Professor Beach and a aman aman aman man named Aldrich from Castle Valley on the Grand river in eastern Utah A Aldrich claimed he had a gold mine and that the whole of the Castle Valley and vicinity was full of gold So they all threw in together and started to that pla place From Grand Junction the party party par I ty came to Cisco by mule team At Cisco the Shafer brothers took a large raft and loaded it with COO pounds of supplies and andset andset andset set sail for Castle Valley Vailey Mr Shafer related a very interesting account of that journey After several days of fighting the Colorado river during which time they had to repair their raft and dry supplies they ar arrived arrived ar- ar rived at Moab The river was new neM to them and they sailed right past Castle Valley and came on to Moab In 1885 Mr Shafer married Miss Daisy Dean Westwood at Moab they being the first coupie cou cou- pIe married in Grand county af ter it was from Emery county They were the rhe parents of 8 children four daughters and four sons Mr Shafer has been a very industrious industrious in in- and energetic builder of Grand county and the church In 1891 Mr Shafer was appointed postmaster of Moab serving sewing in that capacity until 1897 He was again appointed to the position in 1917 and sewed sew ed until 1935 He was county clerk for a period of two years manager of the Moab Mercantile Mercantile tile company for five years filled filled fill fill- ed cd a two year mission for the Loo church and held several important offices In the church He is survived by Mrs Il John Sibyl Sullivan Provo Mrs Walter WaIter Grace Buckley El ElMonte ElMonte ElMonte Monte Calif Mrs William E. E Mae Jensen Salt Lake City Mrs Quint Geneva Wilcox Prim Price F. F M. M Shafer Jr Ogden Albert Shafer Westlake La Earl Shafer H Helper and Dean Shafer Calif He is also survived by 23 grandchildren and ad 18 great grandchildren Funeral services will be holdin held hold In the Moab ward chapel church on Saturday Mar 14 at 2 pm p.m. Burial will be in the Moab city cemetery i |
