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Show ASHLEY VALLEY PIONEER'S WIFE . F LED HARD LIFE ' KfjtT .' nucHF-e'xB. au c The1 funeral of Mrs. Pardon Dodds here July 3T caused several of, the older settlers of Ashley aJey- to remember, that she, was -tha wife of the first settler In that part ef I' ta. , Her experience on ona of the last frontiers of th fast -fading wild West- was filled with more than Its share t tragedy;."',... Forty-five years ago aha.- as Wise Xllnnl Hatch of atebar Cltr.-mar-MeiJ, Pardon Dobb and moved with hlin to . hie home on te "banke of Ashley creek, wher he had built the first log cabin to be Inhabited by white settlers. 8hp bad b,en reared in what wae then eonsiil-erni eonsiil-erni luxury, as such thing Jrer. then, r I Her husband established a store I n( Indian trading post which wail destined to become one of th land. I j marks of that eectlon of the stele. Mrs. Dobhe. as a bride. Verne to 'l tbe. wlldernees and did bar sharej ' toward establishing elvlllxa'lon. 1 Her first son. who wss named i Pardon' Jr.. wag barn, In In Heber City. Th next-one. Joseph, wae drowned tn an Irrigating ditch before ha could walk.' Arthur, the - fourth-aoti, whit running tn head off a hone, fell end died suddenly without a struggle. strug-gle. His brother, who had gone up ths mountainside with him. found his body without a single en ot Injury on It - Blx years later, In.llsT, Mrs. Dobb only daughter. Jennie. T ywri ' ago, wnttdeaiy fen frftm 1 her horee 'nnd died Inetantly. Aha had been with a friend to visit her brother. Within another year her on Ray rod up. a mountain trail after cattle and never returned. Searching parties were sent nm. .but no trace of him could be found at that' lime. 'His mother and brothers decided he had tired of living In the hllla and. probably had gone east ta work. Three years later tha 'skeleton nf a bore was . found In Ashley Creek rsnynn. It had perished where It had been hitched to, the root of a tree." Search revealed th skeleton of Ray Dobba. rylne; In a cleft ot th rock a Indication wer that he. too, bed lain- down and died without a struggle. Portion Por-tion Dcbbs. ihs father of the family. fam-ily. dlee about two yean ago. Mia. Dabha wae the daughter a. X C. Hatch of Hfhar riiyv N.rve brothers and sisters still survive her t It ere. Thc1ine.-'i,ent..waa in Vcrp.nl cemetery. |