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Show HUH o II Mrs, M. M. Gaddie II Dies In 90th Yeai Hnfi Hu Well Kuomi Woman, Pcccinlciit of HnK Ketoliilliiniiry Stuck, Mas Hurled In HI I l.ehl Yesterday. Mrs, Mary M. (laddie, one or I.ehl's B, i oldest and best known citizens, died H I at her homo here Wednesday. Death I was duu to disability, atteudent on H Si old age. H '1 Mrs, (laddlu was exceedlnly proud j of hnr Hevolutlotiary nneestors, one I M grand-father, John Yates, having ft jv fought as a captain, and another, John 111 ft Drown, having fought as a private. $i The funeral, which was held lu the lljff Tahurnacle yesterday nftenioon, was Iwjj one or the most largely attended In Hjff years. At Mm. Unddle'a re(tiest, flt j President Able John Kvaim and Ills-58i!j Ills-58i!j hop FJeld woro the speakers, and lubjj' Mrs. Hoho Lott sang "I Havo Head MM of tho Heautirul City." the following Mx!' biographical sketch, by Mrs. Sidney Kffij Ullchrlst, was read, and gives a good Bug history of her life: fxffi' lllogriiplileul Sketch MB Mary Margaret Claddlo, daughter ol RlgH Wm. M. ami Christiana Yates Drown, PJB was born August 10th, 1S25, In La Kim Duo County. Ky. Jwl In 1S41 she was married to Wm. KfuKI Thurinnu, to whom sho boru four chll- ImH.1 lrcu, Oeorge Wm., Mary 13.. David J. nb and Samuel It., of whom only thu hist KB two survive her. lu 1851 death claim- Mfl ed her husband, still a young man iffiWB and Hi rco years later uhu married t&j JeBso (laddlu or Hart County, Ky. jjgjH Three children were boru to them QIWR Christiana, James II. and Jesse, al, juflH, or whom have preceded he.r to tin iUH great beyond, where their fathor al- (ijnf ready awaited them, he having died aim in isoo. I HI III 1SG9, she lert her girl-hood liomt S jJB to come to I'tah, having learned tin SgSf doetrlnea of Miinuoiilslm from hei jjjS boii Win,, who had preceded her hen Wvx ' Bomo J't-'ars before. Her first lioini Am', wiih in Cedar Fort, where sho lived tfM "tll 1870, when she moved to I.ehl SIB In the samii year hur other two sous ran John ami Siimucl II., came to I.ehl yBJK Although left a widow tint secoiu1 mn time, Just at tho tlmo when the hor- if8l rora of the Civil War wero being Tell ilBi In tho Southern States, her rvcry of- HtB fort was given to teaching her chll- Mm ('rol "lu Vlllu" of "I'r'Rht living, aur H "" education. Although sho had been (WW denied the iidvnutagtri of a schooling ElilBi ' tluoiigh her wide reading and active IfflH IntereHt or the affairs or the world H sho became well Informed. And slit H U'"R llMtlrllK ''i trying ta re;iltzo Inn ;9H KTllt "llllll,l,)l1- of giving her fitmil) 'Hi edueatlonal advantages which she tint jfinj never known, -HB Sho always took an Interest lu po- 'IB lltlcal affairs, both local mid national Bj '" lsn- h'" w" elected president ol Bf the local Hiiclnty cf woman's suffrage 't iiKsoelatiini, which olllce she held foi B threo years. BB Tho welfare of her country was al MB w,i'h Irst In her heart, and It wat H with pride that she traced her ances- BB 'rj' back lo lioiiuionary days, whei IH ; her grand-fiitlier Yates was lleutciiaui BJ general In Hie Coloulan army. Her devotion to thu church of J.at- BJ ' ,('1 !-' Saints was uiiiiwervlug, am' ,H during her younger days sho held H many olllccs in the various societies 'H When her age, creeping upon lier 'BJ rorced her from active work, her re- ,BJ llglon cheered and brightened hei BJ w"v- BJ Slin died at tho age of S! years, r BJ mouths and ":i days, leaving children BJ grand-children, grtnt graml-chlldi'i-i Bj t( 'I"' number of CIS, ax far as it known, and also many frlemla 'to 'K mourn her loss. |
