Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-12-22 | Page 7 | Death of a Pioneer

DEATH OF A PIONBER r Allen a Resident of Utah for I liftyt Year Logan Dee 21The death occurred at lfjartun early this morning of Mr Ira Allen a pioneer of this county and 0 no tablo figure of the early history of the State He died of typhoid fever after a sevoro Illness Ho waa In the eighty seventh year of his age and was a native age n natvo American Ho came to Utah in 1S30 Ho helped found tho town of Sprlngvllle In Utah county and afterwards went south bolus In the vicinity of Mountain Meadows Mea-dows at tho tim of the noted massacre Ho came to Cache In I860 and with relatives rela-tives founded the city of H rum He IcavosJ sixteen children and two wives but was tho father of twentylive chil 1 ron and hal seventy grandchildren nnd jlflyslx crcatcrrandchlldren Funeral Kcivlce v71l be held In Hyrum at 230 p U1 on Sunday 1