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Show MRS. D.E. DEAL HONORED ON 87th BIRTHDAY Guest of honor at a birthday gathering ga-thering held at her home Sunday, Sun-day, August 11, was Mrs. Daniel Edgar Deal, who observed her eighty-seventh birthday that day. Born August 11, 1853, near Chimney Rock on the Platte River Ri-ver in the Plains of Nebraska, when her parents, J. W. and Evelyn Brown Clark were on their way from Galveston, Texas, to make their home in Utah, she and her twin brother, Hyrum Clark, were the youngest members mem-bers of their company, which arrived ar-rived in Grantsville in 1885. In 1858, Mrs. Deal, with her parents, who were called by President Pres-ident Brigham Young to go to Washington, moved to Washington City, Washington county. She lived there until 1872, when she married Daniel Edgar Deal of I Springville in the Salt Lake Endowment En-dowment House. The next three years she lived in Arizona, where she moved immediately im-mediately following her marriage, and later to New Mexico for another an-other three-year period. In 1878 she moved to Springville,, Spring-ville,, where Mr. Deal was employed em-ployed in farming, freighting, contracting, con-tracting, and commercial work un til his death about 29 years ago. Skillful in sewing and all fine handiwork, at eighty-seven she still crochets and does needlework needle-work without the aid of glasses, and also reads books and the daily paper. She is the mother of ten children, child-ren, five of whom are living: Mrs. J. B. Redford of Rupert, Idaho; Mrs. Henry Wood, Springville; Mrs. Ben Argyle of Mercur; Mrs. Charles Boyer of Springville, and Mrs. W. R. Finch of Los Angeles; An-geles; 13 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. She is a member of the L. D. S. church and took an active part in the auxiliary organizations until the last few years. |