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Show fflRS. JANE M. GARDNER DIES AT ADVANCED AGE Numbered among Utah's oldest pioneers and the ancestress of 111 living descendants, descend-ants, Mrs. Jano McCuno Gardner, who died yesterday morning of old age, was a woman of much individuality. Tho death occurred at the residence of nor daughter, Mrs. Margaret Miller. In Sandy. Mrs. Gardner was a native of Canada, where she was born in 1S23. thus being SI years of ago. She came to Utah in Bishop Hunter's company In 1S47. only a few -months after the first sctUors arrived She and her husband. Robert Gnrdnor. settled in the Salt Luke valley, whero they lived till when they went to St. George, and afterward to Pine Valley. At the time of her death sho was visiting with her daughter. Tho deceased was tho mother of twelve children, nine of whom are living, seventy-one grandchildren, thirty greatgrandchildren great-grandchildren and one great-grcat-grand-chlld, so that just before her death there woro live generations of her family alive. Reuben G. Miller, president of the Emory stake of the church; Bishop N. G. Miller of Murray and" James Gardner, counselor to Bishop C F. Chrl.slttnscn, arc among her posterity. Funeral arrangements will bo announced later. |