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Show City's Oldest Man Dies Monday; Services Set Today Alfred Giles Dies At Home Following' Stroke; Short Illness Funeral services for Alfred Giles, 96, Springville's oldest resident, who died Monday, will be conducted con-ducted today at 1 p. m. in the Fourth ward chapel, under direc- f; - - .j I I " ' I Lf j ' "I tt i i i" ' t '4 imi laami 1 1 --..J MR. GILES tion of Theron Hall, bishop of the Seventh ward. Friends may call at the home of a sister, Mrs. Agnes Rowland, 681 East First North, before the services. serv-ices. Burial will be in the city cemetery, under direction of A. Y. Wheeler and Son Mortuary. Mr. Giles' death followed a brief illness, the result of a stroke which he suffered while shoveling snow about two weeks ago. Until that time he had been in good health, energetic and active to the point that he had his garden spaded for spring planting. He would have celebrated his 97th birthday Friday. Fri-day. Mr. Giles was born in Wield, Hampshire, England, in 1852, a son of George and Mary Pearman Giles. His mother died when he was eight years old, and he came to America with his father as a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They sailed from England on June 24, 1868, on the Constitution, having missed an earlier boat, which Mr. Giles always described as a stroke of luck, since cholera broke out on it and 37 of its passengers pas-sengers died. Landed in N. Y. They landed in New York in August, after six weeks of sailing, and joined a party coming west. Mr. Giles made the long trip from Nebraska to Utah by ox cart, walking a good deal of the way. Arriving in Utah at the age of 16, he found work farming and woodcutting, wood-cutting, at which he was employed for many years. He was one of Springville's first farmers, having plowed and planted grain on the area -now covered by the Springville city park. An avid baseball fan, he followed the world series games by radio, and could quote from memory mem-ory scores for many years back., High Priest He was a high priest at the time of his death, and had been (Continued on page 2) |