Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-04-27 | Page 16 | Bones at Last Are Identified

BONES AT LUST ARE IDENTIFIED Mvsterious Collection Is Declared De-clared to Be Remains of Mother" Angel. WILL NOW BE BURIED IN BRIGHAM IfOUNG CEMETERY Grandchildren Had Searched in Vain for Burial Place f Coffin. The mystery surrounding a sack of bones, that has lain at the police station sta-tion Tor almo.t iwo years wns cleared up Tuesday, whet. Oscar Young, son of Brigham Young, Informed Samuel M Harlow, chief of police, thai the bones were undoubtedly those of bis ri.md-mothei. ri.md-mothei. Motliei" Angel, who died in Halt Lake city In early ..ays. It was In the early pari of .Inly. 100S. when the bones were taken to the police itatlon by .ben: M Knlghl, proprietor of tin- Knight Carriage works Workmen engaged in digging the excavation r0i ihe concrete foundation of tne new . -i rh.ge works of Mr. Knight at 140-142 Social Hail alley, botweon State and Second Sec-ond Bast itreets and First and South Temple streets, when their picks struck wood which. 'upon Investigation, provea tlp i-,,. ., paftlallj roiled coffin, containing contain-ing the bone-; of :: WOnUfl Searched in Vain. Oscar Young said Tuesday that it waa Only bv chance thai be bad heard of tin-flnditiK tin-flnditiK of the bones two years Bfter thev were llrst dUg UP, II Wae known by .members of the doling family that Mother" Angel was buried in the blocs where the bones were found, bul the exact locution of tin- grave had been lot A number of years ago John ,iomr .- one-time- railroad promoter md son of Brigham Youiif. spent considerable mones in digging throughout tho block !n the hopes of finding the crave All grave marks had teen obllten I and when business bouses and manufacturing manufactur-ing buildings began to rear their be,.ds In Ihe block a I! hope of finding the grave was given up. Bones to Be Buried. The bones will be burled. 11 is said, in the Brigham Young family cemetery on First avenue. They are now al the undertaking establishment of Joseph E Taj ior. "Mother" ngel was the mother ot Brigham Young's first wire and of Truman Tru-man Angel and Solomon Angel. Bhe was the grandmother of Brigham Young, Jr., John V Young and Oscar Young.