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Show PIONEER WOMAN IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Sirs. Harjnet Decker Hanks Expires at Residence of Granddaughter in Salt Lake. Funeral services for Mrs. Harriet , Decker Hanks, who died yesterday at the age of 01 years, will be held at the home of her granddaughter, Gertrude Felt Kimball, 23S A street, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in-the City cemetery. Mrs. Hanks was born March 13, 1S2(5, in Phelps, Ontario county, New York. Her immediate relatives -wore early converts con-verts to the Mormon faith and intimate associates of Joseph Smith. In 1S47, theu the widow of Edwin W. Little, she crossed the plains with her child, and the following year she married Ephraim K. Hanks, a member of the Mormon battalion, who had returned from California. Cali-fornia. Eleven children wern born of this union, of wdiom the following survive j her: Mrs. Marcia A. Hyde, Mrs. Clara V. Felt and Charles D. Hanks, all residing re-siding in Utah. She also is survived by forty grandchildren, 120 great-grand- children and twenty-five great-great- grandchildren. |