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Show Death of thomas I A. Shelley bbW B High Cn'iitirlllor and Leading Citizen BB Parses Away. B Tliomnn A. Shelley, better known B as Ammon Shelley, died nt his rcal-j B" ile .ce in tills city Sunday, January 11. B 1013, Uim muse of his death being B Drlght Dosoase. Mr. Shelley was B born In this city 65 years ago, and B has always made Amorjcnn Fork his B home, and materially assisted In tho B development of the country. He has B been Identlllcd for many years In tho B civil and ecclesiastical history of tho B community, having held many posl- B tlons of trust, at tho time, of his death, B bolng a member of the High Council. B He Is survived by n daughter Mrs. B Vera Thompson, three brothers and B two sisters, James E. Shelley of fl Hcbcr, Arizona, John F. Sholley of B Shelley, Idaho, and Geo. F. Shelley, Bf Mrs. Mary K. Abel And Mrs.' Chnrlotto B Uluch of American Fork. j B Thomas A. Shelley wob born in B American Fork, August 25th, 1BG&. B Ills pnrentB were Thomas and Clinr- BB lotto Shelley. His boyhood days B were Bpcnt on tho farm where he ac- B, quired the habits of thrift, Industry B and honesty His early manhood B was spent In railroad construction B nnd receiving good wnges ho carc- B fully acquired n nucleus which ho'1 B invested In farming and which Was B tho basis or n mode3t fortune which BB he acquired. In december 1891 he married Miss B Junotto Crystal and from their union B two daghters were bqrn. In Decemb- B er 1895 his wlfo and eldest daughter B were "stricken with dlphterla and B their deaths were but a week apart, B Ho served a term ns City Alderman B nnd filled the1 position of Recorder B for American Fork City for three- B years. In 1S02 ho was elected as B school trusteo and during his oncum- E bency tho Forbes scool building was fl' erected. All of his chil positions B were characterized by high efficiency. B He was a devoted-Latter Day Saint B and from the time of his baptism Oct.' B 21, 18C6, he was active In somo church' B capacity arid served on a mission to B the Southern states. Hq was an Eld- er, a Seve and a 'HlghPrleslFa BB twelveearB"he'Xasbeen atnwBbe fl of the High" Council of-xtbo AlpiBO fl; -.'Stake wblehl position hVheU at. the BBBv4My9fMlkpVi r'MrB. VaBhelley'Tlloiionlrhlg B "solo heir, as it Is understood he died Bl without a will. Bff Funeral services wero hold in tho fl Third ward mo,etlnghouso Thursday fl at 1 o'clok and wore lnrgoly attended B by many leading churchmen nnd tho citizens In general. Jjlshop Hindley presided. Tho other BB speakers wero Presldunt James II. B Clark, Stephen D Chlpinnn nnd I'ro- B sldent Stephen L. Chlpinnn all of B whom spoko In high praiso of tho B chnrnctor of tho deceased and of Ills fl liberality In giving for church pur- BB pOOCB. B Mrs. S. F. Hickman rendered o solo. BBC BBBb --- |