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Show OLDEST PIONEER I WOinS DEAD "Grandma" McKee, Aged 98 Years, Dies at Home ' in Spanish Fork. Special lo The Tribune. SPANISH FORK, Oct. S. Mrs. Pcraie MeKee. more generally known as "Grand-nui" "Grand-nui" McKee. who it is believed, was the oldest baptized member of th Mormon 'hiireh at the time of her death, pa sped peacefully away" Saturday niht at t he home of her daughter. M rs. Oha rles Mcasom, wiia whom she had made her home for some lime. The aed woman appea.re.1 in !;er usual health during the day and aie a light supper a usual. She was a.siijLed lo her bed by ht-r daugiiter and dit-d soon after. Mrs. MfKee had led a most eventful iife and until the last was aole to converse con-verse intelligently about me stirring in fidenis w hi h she had epe- ienreJ. She was the daughter of John and Po.ly Mas- I ton Swea',, and was born at Andover. j Maine. June :3. 1 Site la- ked onh ; e'iiteon month? of being 1"" j-ears of ap- She was 'baptize t inln'the rhiir h o' 'Jecus Christ of later-day Saints, in ,'. ami the was with tin- sa'.nts on most of I their ear!' pilgrimages. siar.riR with ihm line hardships and trials of t.;ose early ! ears. Ii was li she was with I he Mormon.6 at KirtLun). uaio, tht she, then 17 ears or' ace. and a ( r! frit nd narnM Sara n ll.uiL-v of New York, folded thp entire j e oi.d edition of '- t;e P."ok of Mormon, i v i... h was piit-l.sht J ih" . "nf of hr j :nA5t i itf n. ned pos-'ssions h Aiwa1, f r em a ropy o;' th- t ook rohid b- her i ", ti hands a tid prt-st-ni ed lo her by the IPtnph.-i .hsepii Smith as a kepake and jm-'Miento o: her work. I I; wa on one of trie p l ; -ri m w s n' t..e sa.nts that she in-t Tikhths M- -ike-', a o i n k man who w . s t ra ve . i n wi;Ji another foir.pan1 . Tiu-v were mar-; mar-; r..-d at H o,nifM'lti. id . Jan. It. 11. 'I hv i resided for ome lini" at t'ouiit il V. ulf.. I low.i, and f mi lv nio'-i t n Nam no, w nere ' if e v li ed until aftt-r Jfeph Smith ws k.Il-.i Mrs. Ni Kff r-me m be red sin4 ai'iiVi kmc with the prophet rnuny lime-'. 1 When the Morman were drum from I NauviKi, trie M' Kef f.uiuh went wh Itt.m. lommg at lain U lau In I The ; family first et tied at Palmyra. t h 1 original site of Spanish I'ork. where th-v res.Jej urilil drien out iv the Indians Thov were for.'fd into the penent M -t eriT-nt where they liwd i.ti'il Th"v niOed ti'i Sahi.a at bus tune and lived . t here unt ii 1 v when M -. M K -c d ied. A ifiiM :m. 1 i 7 . V ,M. M. Ke,- m.v.-.l ha k in this nit v wi i h !i-r h :'d r-n Kor n,.:f. wars t m-v res !! at LiU Shore. K::;I or nine t i-;irs ag. .'ie . ,nn- to t:s t lo make her horn ! win; her dauth- Mr. M1 Ko was the mother of n;ne hililren. of w hftrn ate t Ins. She is also si,T .!vr bv -.'hb - nliif urand- . i 1 '1 r n . IJ" t't e.i; -::iand' hddrt-n. and t w e nt -1 -a o r a; -arti -r,i nd' lnldren ' m.Tk.tbif fa 't i iba' ail o' t n -.-ven f ,i tr i 1 lia a i . ild of ' ;.e f f t j i z- n r.i -t .on. The c . rpt i.,n i-uhk Mr, i 'ha t b- Mmmmii who has no i id Id ten of her OW p The . Ink! r-n nun i ' inc .i re WI!-Ita-ti 'hambt-rs. Mai;tii.l.i, low,,. Mr. l-nvid M. K-... Sr.ni:;v.ll.-. Mali; Mm. ' .i;-i;e A ; tig-, J oi.vn, I 'a h : .Mr. John 1 .i im o' k. Spanish Fork. V lit b ; l rs. Ue'iui i 'ham hers. A isn't on, Irlaho; Mrs. I a v Id Hut- bin; on, I.a k e Shore. I'm h : Mr-. bTk-e S. 'lat.-s. SaMna. I'tah; Mm. i'narii- Mr.r-oni. Spanth J-'ork. ("tali i'u neral st-i b es wre bed I id afternoon after-noon a' J ' bn.k from the l-'ouri h ward meeting house, wifh Pufbop "Jroiegut otft' iatintf. |