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Show j OLIVER C. BESS, i PIONEER OF 1848, i CALLED BY DEATH OLIVER C. BESS. II I A i , 4 , . i 5- t ' , i It " 1 ANE of the pioneers of" lS-iS, Oliver Cromwell Ee?s, died Thursday inorn-hig inorn-hig at his residence, S9 Pacific avenue, after a brief illness. He was Sti years and 7 months old. tie TVfts "boni in SHeuben county, New York, May 27, 1S31. the son of J. and Laura Richardson Bess. He joined the Mormon church when a boy and started for Utah with his parents in 1S47. The party spent the winter at Wintorquarters, arriving in Salt Tak vallev September 22, 1S4S, with Heher C. Kimball's company. com-pany. Tie returned with his ox team to help out the handcart company and was a minute man. Mr? Bess was married March 2S, lS5't, to Miss .Annie Berrett. Five of their ten children survive, as do thirty prandchil-dren prandchil-dren and twenty-five Rreat-grandehildren. The surviving' children are Mrs. George Palmer, Miss Jjf-.onora Bess, Miss Led a HJ. Bess, Robert JR. Bess and Mrs. C. H. Ranks, all of Salt 1-ake. There are two sisters, Mrs. Eliza Moody of Deseret and Mrs. Laicinda Hendricks of Ida.no. The funeral services will be held at the Twenty-fifth ward meeting house, at a time- to be announced later. Bishop Georgre Graham will preside. The body will be on view at the residence on the day of the funeral. Interment will be in City cemetery. |