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Show :PionterDf 1847Ges ' f " toJIsY Reward H Came to Utah in 1817 To Hensniil fl OroTC. 1851. i H Ono by ono-the Utnh plonoera arc H passing away. Mrs. -Catherine Iver- Hfl son, who como to U(nh the first ycnr Hit of Its settlement und to Pleasant HB Grove but two years after tho first ono located hero, died nt hor homr HB In I'loasai t Orovo last Tuesday HI She hnd been 111 but about two weokr HB but because of her age she could not HH resist tho disease. HB The funeral services, which were HB held' lu tlrq Tabernaclo Thursday, HI were ;argely attended. Bishop S. L. HB Swenson took charge of tho services HB Tho othor speakers were J, E, Thome HB Keuson Hlselt, Alexander J3ullock, Hflj Bishop Olpln, L. P. Lund and Ezra H Walker. Mrs. L. A. Richardson sang BB a solo and J. 13. Bush read tho follow- Hflj lug biographical sketch: HI Cnthcrlnq -Ivorson wns born Jun- HIJ C( 163 J, lu upper Canada, Province c fl York. Movod from this placo t Montrose, 'Jowa, arriving thero May fl Ur 1839. ,WhilQ at this placo he BB mother, tiled in 1842. H tvfhoy left Mohtrose and settled 1 fl Council Bluffs, arriving thero Jul) HB rt, 1840, where11 they remained until Bl (ay StJ 1847. when they started fo fl the Rocky Mountains arriving in "Sail Bfl VAka September 21, 1847. fl -KHbr rather,' ChrUtbpher Williams, I wasithe first bishop of the Third Ward fl of Salt Lake vCliy, which office he fl held until released on account of old BB She become ncqdolntcd with Ivei Noolos Ivcreon in 1863, whom bIk afterwards married in 1854,Janunr HB 19. 'They moved .moved to. Pleasant BB drove the Bruno year, where sho hir HB bIuco, resided. i M Ijor s-hUBband died August 1860 B For ten years after tho death of her HB husband, she followed -washing for a HB livelihood ' ferformlng this work nl- B most evcryCday in tho week. Since fl fhenshe 'had 'quilting and knitting Bfl for her vocatilon. HB .She jfcslcd- peacefully -away at her fl hom djB the ZOthe Inst, the. cause being genoral Ability. Hj ( She was tho mother of 'four chll- S Hi rdd( two of whom survive her, Alma , J H. Iverson, her her ( oldest' son and MellcentvHoppe, -her .youngest child. 'jfcera is also a half, sister. Mellcent 6. OoDthtby, of .Proston, Idaho. fl There- ore 24 grand-children, 19 still living,' and 8 great grand-children, 7 living. BB She has t.lwnys impressed her Bfl chl!drou with tho fact that she did not fl went tu Lc a burdcu on the communi- fl ty cr to recclvo support from their Bfl hands If possible. She wob very In- BB depcudout in her ' nnturo but verj fl grcitfuf for tho least kludnoss showi flfl Hi Sho would havo been 78 years old on Jn .e 0, 1914. She was a fnithfu fll Latter Day Snlut, uud owed no per flfl Sun -on earth a dohar. BBWv O |