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Show Services Held Sunday In New Harmony For M. 0. Woolsey, 80 NEW HARMONY, UtahFuneral services were held in the New Harmony ward chapel Sunday, Jan. 14 at 2 p. m. for Martin Owen Woolsey, 80 who died at 9 p. m. Wednesday, Jan. 10 in the Iron county hospital. He had been in poor health for several months. Music for the services was furnished by members of the Kanarra ward choir and the speakers were Orson Hammond of New Harmony and Wells Williams Wil-liams of Kanarra. They told of his personal qualities of thrift and honesty, of his life of service to his fellow men, his sincerity and kindness to his family. Prayers were by Rulon Orton and Lynn Reeves and the grave in the New Harmony cemetery was dedicated by James L. Prince. Born May 17, 1864, in what was then called Lee Town, now New Harmony, he was a son of Richard and Clarissa Cole Woolsey. Wool-sey. His parents were L. D. S. converts from Kentuckey and Iowa respectively, and came to Utah in 1848. His father was a blacksmith. He married Sarah Duel on Nov. 6, 1886, a widow with five children, child-ren, Etta, Melissa, Jake, Mary and Anna. Three children were born to them, Richard, Clara and Delbert. They were living at Iron-town Iron-town when the diptheria epidemic took the lives of three of their children. In 1891 they homesteaded what is now known as Woolsey'e ranch, 15 miles west of Cedar City where he has since made his home and became known for his farming and stockraising as well as for kindness to travelers. Mrs. Woolsey Wool-sey died in Nov. 1919 and on Oct. 3, 1922, he married Janet Hopkins, Hop-kins, a widow with four chlidren, Thelma, Bernice, Edwin and Grant. They in turn had five chlidren, Sarah, Doyle, Lora Dawn, David and Beverly. Surviving are his widow and five children, D. N. Woolsey of Cedar City; Mrs. Clarissa Wood-ard Wood-ard of Glendale, Utah; Mrs. Sarah W. Smith, Donna and Beverly Woolsey of New Harmony; one sister, Mrs. Adeline Holt of Salt Lake City, 22 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren. |