| Show HORACE DRAKE PIONEER OF 1847 DIED AT HOME IN centerville CENT ERVILLE LAST SUNDAY I 1 florace drake passed away sunday night at ills his home in Cent ce nt erville ile he had bad been very tow for two or nr three weeks before the end and mine came but was conscious wu 1 l almost st liis his last breath lie had lioen been a resident of conter center ville over thirty years am owned what is known as tile the shurtliff place one of the best farms farls in davis da vis county but when lie he sot got too oli to in look after it he be built a hodiw in town and lived with his ill daughter mrs joseph soseph where he li passed ased away i i air drake ind and his family had lived in salt lake forty leafs yead s before moving to Cent centerville erville the old homestead was on tile the site of ot the fifth E east ast hotel which property tiley they sold to tile the government covern ment he ie was vas always alawat s a great graat reader and possessed pos essed a remarkably memory lie ile was also a faithful I 1 and consistent I lattee day saint 1 october 3 ISM 1870 IS M lie married diana 11 ellza daughter of chandle ind and runice dunning holbrook pioneers of isis to them were born twelve children nine 0 of whom with their mother have passed away ills son on hyrum drake mrs worsley and joseph survive him funeral services were held wednesday in the centerville Cent erville meeting house bishop wesley E presiding the speakers were nere bishops J N ford II if II if randall heller C iverson patriarch G smith apostle clawson clavson george bowles and bishop each poke of the faithfulness of the departed his exemplary we life and his devotion to duty rive five grandsons and a nephew acted as hallbe pallbearers pall beArers aers interment in the hie centerville Cent erville cemetery horace drake was as the sou son of daniel ind and patience Ia tience perkins tatt taft drake and was born at hartford bull county ohio april 19 19 ag ills his parents were of vermont and ills his father fat lier 1 was a veteran of the war of 1812 ills hiss I 1 j mother was a daughter of john perkins who with liis ills nine sons fought at banker hill in 1776 with the colonial patriots at the age of ilni ninel vars rears taken 19 0 la LaU harpe arpe ili III by its bis pa parents ie lits where on oil march 8 1811 1841 the family we were re a all baptized from that iame their lot was with I 1 llie t ile church I 1 in kunf 1847 the hie fam family lly set out from i winters quarters quarter in ili captain daniel spencers company andi aa ira IL a rl dredges ten tell for utah where they arrived september 19 ISIT being I 1 in expert hunter sir mr drake supplied the company with game and illi oil on lust t we L plains TIL the drake family settled antho I 1 lie old fort whore where luring during tile the the drake brothers did did the first block bidock teaching tn n Felor february tiar y S 18 1850 to drake was ordained a seventy set lity and in 1861 he became one of tile the seven presidents of the tenth quorum a position ile he held more than forty years until his ordination as a patriarch by president delit jo beail lc ph I 1 seiti october 5 1005 1905 in robin idaho monday willie here she ile S visited with miss ulce mice millard A C carlsten e who 1 4 1 lias 1 1 latil kf I 1 T charge of the bawling a jilg and various other concessions a tile the lagoon lagoo tor a number of years 1 ii it is taking a tell en year lease on that desort aud and forming a 1 company comp any to oper r te the same conand cessions sessions ces impi ive ments that will require an exkew tur u le of probably nrc are conte conic plated plans are arc already going on oil 0 lie libat at the bathing pools and to lo provide brov de a resort that will 11 appeal to youn rland old alike mr air christensen antens intends to build averit a veritable tible 0 ocean beach ta lagoon and tor for that purpose will 11 laidve I 1 ve shipped in two carloads of sand tight from arom the beaches in california f the bathing pools are to be enlarged enlar en larget gei and constructed entirely of cement there will he be every known ampara apparatus us for the aquatic ION lo 10 in ing public three hundred new bathrooms will lie be built the lance dance hall will he be enlarged and there will be an elegant restaurant which will III cater to the best patronage |
