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Show PIONEER IS BURIED Funeral Serv ces for James Crooks Are Held at American Fo k Special to Tl e T Ibune AMERICAN FORK, Aug 8 Funeral services for James Crooks a pioneer of this c ty were he d at the Second ward chapel today B shop J H. Storrs pres d lng The speakers were Pres dent James H C arke and Bishop John R Hind ey The ward cho r furn shed the s ng ng Mr CrookB was one of Amer can Fork s first sett ers having cometo th s city in 1852 He was born in Scot and February 10 1823 and em grated to America In 1843 locating at Nauvoo 111 and resided there and at Garden Grove Mo unt 1 1851 when he crossed the pla ns mak lng the trip with ox teams He moved to American Fork the neit spring and had made his home there ever s nee with the exception of a year spent In Cal forn a He was the first b acksmith in th s city and with his brother bui t the first thrash ng machine operated here receiving a farm in exchange for the machine which farm at present be ongs to members of the fami y |