| Show PIONEER WOMAN DEAD I 1 I 1 I 1 MES MARY MART SPRAGUE I 1 PASSES AWAY she eho was over 93 95 years old and had lived where sho she died nearly fifty yea years when mrs biro alary warner sprague fell into eternal slumber tit at her home borne no 44 south state streets street in this city at t yesterday afternoon another ina pioneer woman of utah had bad passed away the deceased who was the widow of the late dr S L sprague was born at Co cohassey cohasset hasset blasel 9 on march 1 1603 2603 and was waa therefore 95 years 6 months find and 14 days day old in 1813 1943 she and her husband embr embraced acad the mormon religion at lowell moss mass and immediately after removed to nauvoo III where they identified themselves a with the people of their fajth faith 11 I 1 I 1 kocl 11 1 4 71 0 pl tl I 1 W V 11 M W mrs a we mar in ISIS 13 IS mrs airs sprague and her husband joined brigham youngs second company and came across the plains to utah arriving here in october of that year during the greater portion 0 of f tho the long arduous trip mrs sprague drove an ox wagon her conveyance being second in the line of march and just ahead of president youngs upon her arrival here she and the other members of the company took up their residence upon pioneer square where tiey they remal remained ned until the following spring when sirs mrs sprague and her husband removed to the spot where the aped aced breathed her last yesterday day dr sprague Spra frue was brigham youngs PhYsic physician lan from the time of their first meeting in nauvoo until shortly before president youngs death and it Is something of a coincidence that they both died the same month mrs sprague was taken sick about a 1 week ago and bank gradually until yesterday afternoon when utters she tell fell serenely into a deep sleep from which she did not awaken she was a woman weman of great intellectual power and retained her bar faculties to the lost last she left surviving her ono one son S L sprague Spra ruo wo five grandchildren and one great grandchild the funeral funell services will bo be held at the thirteenth ward assembly hall at I 1 0 clock tomorrow afternoon friends are invited |
