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Show FUNERAL IS HELD FOR PIONEER ST. GEORGF. WOMAN Preston, Idaho. May 3. Funeral services were held Sunday for Mrs. Emily Green Blake, SO, ox team pioneer pion-eer of 1S6S. the year before the completion com-pletion of the railroad, who died here' Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ezra Lewis. Interment was at Richmond. Utah. Mrs. Blake was born in Lancashire, England. She lived 18 years at St. George. Her husband owned the sawmill that sawed lumber nsed in the construction of the St. George temple and old tabernacle. Surviving Surviv-ing are two daughters; Mrs. Ezra Lewis. Preston. Mrs. Emily Christen-sen. Christen-sen. Tremonton; 19 gradchildren and S great grandchildren; half brother and sisters: Ephraim Barnett. Malad: John Barnett. Salt Lake; Mrs. Lucy Thurgood. Bountiful; Mrs. Eliza Atkin . St. George. Deseret News. |