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Show HAMBLIN WIDOW DIES IN ARIZONA Mrs. Louisa Hamblin, SS, widow wid-ow of Jacob Hamblin, one of the greatest Indian scouts and peacemakers of the pioneer west and one of the best known characters char-acters of early southern Utah history, died at her home in Thatcher, Ariz., the latter part of December. Mrs. Hamblin was a native of Berne, Switzerland, and was one of the first converts to the church in that country. Her husband hus-band died" in 1886. Mrs. Hamblin as a girl of 14, pulled a handcart all the way from the Missouri river to the great Salt Lake, and from then until the middle 70's she lived in Utah's Dixie, mostly at Santa San-ta Clara. She and her husband later lived at the now deserted Sunset, headquarters of the now extinct Little Colorado stake, later moving to Round valley at what is now Springville, and finally to Pleasanton, N. M., "where her husband died. She is survived by the following fol-lowing sons and daughters: Walter B., of Kanab; Mrs. Inez H. Lee, of Thatcher, Ariz.; Wil-lard Wil-lard of Eagar, Ariz., and Mrs. Frank C. Lee of Los Angeles, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. |