Show News of Ship Arouses Fears Here for Couple r S rT S s 4 3 S v 1 k kr v r b j d t d S s r 4 k a f fC C c yS a 5 M a A- A AJ J VW S i W w tv X u V MISSIONARY FAMILY REPORTED ABOARD MISSING l LINER IN SOUTH ATLANTIC Rev R. R Nelson Muir right Mrs Muir front left and sons Peter left and James Others in picture picture picture pic pic- ture are arc relatives Picture was taken in New York Thanksgiving day 1938 Missing Liner Carried family Known in S. S L. L A family of four well-known well in Salt Lake City husband City husband and nd Wife Baptist missionaries and their two young sons sons may may have gone to their deaths on the missing Egyptian liner Zamzam because of their eagerness to return to their church work This was disclosed Monday with word the Rev and Mrs Nelson Muir and their sons James 9 and Peter 10 30 were listed as passengers on the liner missing in the south Atlantic Visited Here Several Times The family visited in Salt Lake City a year ago the last of several visits here according to a close friend Mrs E. E H. H Rowland Sixth East street Mrs Muir alI although al- al though hough not a resident of Salt Lake I City maintained membership in inthe inthe the he Bethel Baptist church Lincoln l street during years of travel as a missionary Rowland disclosed that the Rev and Mrs Muir during a furlough fur- fur lough which ended with their embarkation embarkation em- em on the Zamzam had debated de de- bated jated whether to leave their sons in n the United States to attend school while the parents resumed their heir work in Portuguese West Africa They decided to take the boys to o Africa and place them in school in n northern Rhodesia rather than part with them Mrs Rowland said aid We all pray they are safe but jut if anything has happened to them hem it probably was best that they hey were all together at the end Wife Colorado Native Nati Mrs Muir then Miss Martha Moors was a native of Colorado and lived for a time in Moab then s served as a n nurse at Fort Douglas during the first World war Mrs Rowland said She became well acquainted in Salt SaU Lake City while accompanying her father who was wasa a traveling representative for a cutlery firm In 1920 the former Miss Moors i entered Baptist mission work and met the Rev Mr Muir when both were serving in Portuguese West Africa During a in the United States they were married jn in Oakland Cal CaI 12 years ago Mrs Muir joined the Bethel Baptist Baptist Baptist Bap Bap- church about 12 years ago and it since had been her home congre congre- gation The couple and their chIldren children children chil chIl- dren visited two weeks with the Rowland family two years ago and spent a short visit here in March 1940 |