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Show American Fork's Oldest ; Resilient Passes Away i .liiini". Crooks Who Helped lo llulM Mie I'lrxl 'I hrethlug Machine Operated Oper-ated Here, Hies lit Adianced gi nf !l ii'iirs Months !l Ha.. .liimeM Crooks, one of American Folk's llrst settlers nnd Its oldest rest dent, died nl his home here last Sun I day, aged !M years, n nioutliB and I days Ho was one or the city's tin-lihu-ksiiiltliK and with his hrolhe I built the llrst threshing niaehlue on- ated here. Ho and IiIh rather we-tlio we-tlio town's first blackBiiilllis. bill j Into has been engaged In fannlnr havlng secured his farm In oxchnng. I ror milldlng the tliresblng iniichim I Ho was always known as a good faithful, hardworking, honest man Funeral son lees were held Tue av afternoon In Mm Second win Chapel, Hlshop Joseph II. SIoiih pre Hiding. Addresses extolling tho ''Ip' character or tho deceased were mad' ,y President James II. Clarke and Hlshop J. R. Hlndlcy. Tho ward choli rurnlBlied tho opening and closing songs and Miss 151 va Chipmau rondcr. ..I solo. Tho rollowlng biographical sketch was rend' I James Crooks was tin- son He was born In lilosnrl. I.rcshl . Scotland, February 10, IS-- i Joluc M.e church In Scotland and n necember 20th, 1813, with hL father, two brothers ami thrco ulsters set sail for America. After being on the water eight weeks, they iniidcd hi New Orleans, In 1844. Thoy wcro scAcn wcokB coming up tho MIbbIs-slppl MIbbIs-slppl Hlvor to Nuuvoo, 111. Tho pro-phut pro-phut Joseph Smith met them and gave them a brief tnlk. After wcttllng In Nuuvoo ho Joined the Nnuwio legion under un-der Captain Summorvlllc. They wcro driven out of Nauvoo In 184C. and endured en-dured all the hardships that Mm saints went through. Latter thoy settled In Uardon Grove, Missouri. They left In 1S51 for Utah, arriving In Salt Lake City, September :!0. 1851. Hero they spent' tho winter. Tho following spring thoy camo to American Fork, stiolng two years, when ho went to California, returning to American Kork threo years later. He was called on a mission under Capt. Don Jones, establishing stations for the emigrants. emi-grants. Ho mnrrled Anno. Starmont In 1801, they wcro blessed with seven children, six boyB and one girl. Ills wife died In 188G and Inter ho married Malrloii Hnrto. Ho Is tho grand'stlier of twonty grandchildren. |