Show Mary Jane Miller David Mikesell Early Pioneers of State Dead Two i moro more BUr survivors rut from tho the rapidly thinning ranks of ot Utah's earliest pioneers rs wera claimed by death Sunday Mrs l Mary Ja Jane Miller who was as brought to Snit Salt Lake with whit tho second Mormon Mor Mor- mon rOon c died at her hoi homo home o- o oin in itt Murray urra a and a David Urla Uris Mikesell I ono no of ot tho the first persons born In tho the I state died at nt Benjamin Mrs Miller was born in Canada February 13 1843 and was waa taken n nto to Sal Lak b by her parents Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert and ana Jane l Gardner She was WOoS tho the widow lido of ot James ames R. R Miller onetime onetime- pro prominent church figure and was h herself an active wor r r Ill In L. L IiD ID D S. S church affairs ho hC 1 had lived in Murray lurra sixty nine years Surviving vard ar four sons Reuben Reubon S T. T Miller of ot Salt Lake William am E E. 3 and I L. L C C. Miller of ot Murray r. r urray rray and Ii I M. M r l Sillier tUler of at Los Angeles Cal three daughters 8 Mrs J J. F. F Whitney Whitney Whit Whit- ne ney of ot Salt Lake Lak Mrs 1 A A. A P. P Davis rind mind Mrs H H. G. G Merrill of at Provo PlO six forty Ix grandchildren thirty and two groat gt t- t d Mr Mikesell Mikesell- vas waa born about a a. year after Ills hits parents arrived Inthe in In- the Iho valley with one ono of ot tile tho first compa companies lIcA in 1847 18 Ho lIe helped to to colonize the Muddy river district near mien St. St George and another r district dis dJs in Arizona Ho Ito 1 was a 8 former Jo government nt scout and n- n y veteran t rl n o of time the Black Hawk war wari ITo IIo Is is survived by b- his widow Mrs Julia Axel Mikesell and anel the following children Albert Mikesell 2 1 Los Angeles Mrs Charles Hickman Hick Hick- man Benjamin Mrs l L. L H H. A Ai of California Dean Mike nell Mammoth Utah Joseph Mike 1 nell Georgia and d Frank Mikesell 1 Los Angeles twenty limo grandchildren grand grandchildren children thirty two great reat grandchildren grand children four tour brothers Solomon Mikesell 2 Mammoth Utah Georgo Mikesell l Salt SnIt Lake J William Mike Mike- nell Salt Lake Alfred Benton Cal and two sinters dRIers Mrs M Margaret rgaret Rolf Bolt and Mrs Ann Colvin |