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Show NATIVE OF ENGLAND DIES IN SALT LAKE William Bricker, 8-t years of age, a resident of Utah since 1S66, died yesterday yes-terday morning at his home w Poplar Grove. Funeral arrangements have not been announced. , .. Mr Bricker was born in Studly Green near Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England Eng-land When 14 years of ago he was apprenticed to a coach maker and followed fol-lowed the trade for several years. He, came to America in 10, settling in Lowell, Mass., going from thero to St. j Louis in 1852. He was early converted to the Mormon faith and in ISo.i served a mission among the Cherokee and Creek Indians. After some years ot mission work in Nebraska he returned tn his native home in England, remainder" remain-der" until the close of the Civil war, when he came to Utah. He is I lurvlved by his widows Mrs. Sarah Goff Bricker. two sons three daughters and twenty-nine grandchildren. |