| Show Death takes Nancy Funeral 1st MYTON Elizabeth Nancy Stewart died January ait the Roosevelt at the age of of causes incident to Slit was born August a daughter of Joshua and Smith She spent most of her early childhood in Heber and Park coming to the Uintah Basin in 1893 with her James who operated an Indian Trading Post at Duchesne and at At that time the only settlements in the Basin were a way Fort the Army then known ns and Ashley in Ashley Valley There were government offices and Indian Villages at Whiterocks and also in Antelope between Myton and Stewart was at White-rocks when the last uprising of the Uintah Indians She remembered their return from Colorado wearing the black paint of the warpath as the troops went through White-rocks with the Indians who were not angry with the people of the Basin but were furious with the cowboys of Colorado who had attempted to drive them from their hunting grounds in She was at Fort Duchesne when the Indians caused a in and around Myton because Billy white killed Fenno and the members of the tribe wanted to bring Muse to trial in accordance with Indian This was refused and the excitement She stood on the porch at their house and watched the Cavalry toward Myton to quell the In her girlhood days the Army still dressed in the old Army Blue and to the day of her death she maintained the old blue ms of the in were much more attractive than any they have worn Mrs Stewart spoke of those days as early and dated most events as before or after meaning the opening of the Uintah-Ouray Indian Reservation to the white settlers and homesteaders She knew most of the old famous Indians She remembered Chief Red Chief Red Old and others now in the Hunting Grounds' all legendary figures of the old West When Myton was in its the leading and busiest town in the she operated the first there and later the She married George E Set-wart in July 1898 He was later connected with the old Ravon Mining Company operating hydro-carbon mines in the Basin Together they moved from place to place in the Basin as duty She was never happy out of the Basin because she said this was her her country and always maintained the Basin would someday come into its own and no place would equal it in wealth of natural She left those who survive a beautiful memory of her land the things she did and stid Her life was rich and Her husband and rne son J B. Stewart her in death and she is survived by George E. Jr f two Wallace and Ted Millicent Thomas both of two Mrs Sarah Watkins and Mrs Virginia both of Salt Lake two John Birchell of Roosevelt and Bryan Birchell of Salt Lake Eleven grandchildren and thirty seven great Funeral services were held 1st at 12 30 p.m. in the old Roosevelt Stake Interment was in the Roosevelt cemetery The deceased her home with her daughter and and Wallace for many and later with and Ted Thomas after they moved to Myton from She has B host of friends who will miss |
