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Show WELL-KNOWN RESIDENT OE SALT LAKE DIES SUDDENLY OF STOMACH TROUBLE John D. II. McAllister, for many years a resident of Salt Lake City, widely known and well liked, dropped dead In his barn at tho rear of his home, 211 East Fifth South street. about 8.:;0 o'clock Wednesday morning. The discovery discov-ery of tho body was made by one of the dead man's sons, Gerald Gail McAllister, who had gOne to the barn In search of his father. Bishop Oscar F. Hunter, who was about to enter the McAllister home to call on Mr. McAllister, was immediately acquainted ac-quainted with the discovery, and, with Mrs. McAllister and several of her children, chil-dren, hurried to the barn nnd the body wns tuken into the house. Mr. McAllister for some time had been suilering from Hlomnch trouble and It is thought death was duo to acute gastritis. .Tohn D. H. McAllister was born In Council Bluffs. Ia., January y, 1S51, whlh his parents. Jolpi D. T. and Ellen Hundley Hund-ley McAllister, were en route for Salt Lake City Mr. McAllister's parents arrived ar-rived here when ho was 1) months old, and he hnd made this city his homo since that time. For a term of lfi years, Mr. McAllister was a counselor to Bishop Elijah F Sheets of the eighth ward, and for tho past year nnd a half had been second counselor to President Joseph Kcddlng-ton Kcddlng-ton of the high priests' quorum of Liberty Lib-erty stnke. On October 23. 1875, Mr. McAllister was mnrried to Miss Ann Fitzgerald, who, with eight children, survives him. T.io children are Mrs. Ethel Hicks. John McAllister, Mc-Allister, Mrs. Laura Chesncy, Archie, Ella. Gerald Gall and Leon McAllister. Tho arrangements for the funeral have not yet boon made. The body was removed, re-moved, to the undertaking establishment of Joseph William Taylor, whero it was viewed by Coroner Dana T. Smith, who gave the cause of death as stomach trou- i ble. I |