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Show Final tributes of respect paid last original pioneer With the death, of Mrs. Selena Sel-ena Beddoes Kelsey, 97, on Wednesday July 11, passed an era in the history of Springville. Spring-ville. She was the last of the original pioneers in this city the finest in the vicinity at the time and she had lived there since. Mrs. Kelsey was known as a fine seamstress and an expert ex-pert gardener. Her large yard was always full of flowers and vegetables which she cared for until well past 90 years. Her husband died during the flue epidemic in 1918. Mrs. Kelsey had lived through every phase of living and she had the distinction of traveling by every means of transportation from ox team to the most modern methods. Lending a helping hand at times of need, she was known as a good neighbor and many other pioneer instincts and traits to which she had been accustomed in pioneer days, were carried through her life time. Surviving are four sons and a daughter: William H. Kelsey Kel-sey and Fred Kelsey of Salt Lake City; Blaine Kelsey, Los Angeles, Ed Kelsey of Idaho and Effie Kelsey, Springville. A married daughter Preal, passed away more than a year ago. There are also 12 grandchildren grand-children and 16 great grandchildren. and one of the very few remaining re-maining in the state. Final tributes were paid to her and her long and eventful life at funeral services Saturday Satur-day afternoon, at Wheeler Mortuary chapel, with Bishop Ray Cope of the Eighth ward officiating. Burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery. Mrs. Kelsey had been at Sunset Manor for some 22 months. Her death was attributed attri-buted to a fall in which she suffered painful injuries the Friday before her death on Wednesday. She was born in Willingham Staffordshire, England, December Dec-ember 31, 1864, to William and Riah Rockhouse Beddoes. She came to this country with her parents, who were converts to the LDS faith, arriving in New York July 4, 1868. The family crossed the plains from Nebraska to Utah, by ox team and settled in Salem. She was married to William H. Kelsey in 1883, and they moved to Springville. Shortly after, they built a new home at 366 W. 300 South, one of |