Deseret Evening News | 1900-03-03 | Page 3 | Old Settler Passes Away

I i OLD AWAY Demise or of Alexander Watson After Several Weeks Illness At 4 O a rn toda today March 3rd rd Alex under ander Watson died at his home borne In the Sixth ward of this city In Ute the Glib year ot of his hll age The cause caule ot of death Will was an atack of at asthma front from whIch he has haa suffered all winter The deceased was wall II a native of at Scotland which county he left In 1848 coming to Amer AmerIca lea Ica In c company with other Mormons and locating for tor a time in St Louis fAuls lie He hu has resIded In UtAh fifty years ears having reached Salt Lake CIl City rn jn ISSO 1550 For many years ears PMt past he followed the business ot of grading contractor and andas was as well and known as Sand Sandy Watson HIs health hu baa been for about two years ear past lie JIe was a quIet moan man well respected b by hIs acquaintances JIe He had bad II a InrI large family his hla wife and eight or of their children surviving him The funeral services will be In inthe the Sixth ward assembly hall hail on Times day next March commencing at 1 p ni m