Show Lift urE ClOSES FOR PIONEER pm or OI 4 STATE 0 I Mrs Mis Permelia Hood Dies Die At Home of Daughter At Age of 83 Funeral services were wore held I in Duchesne Thursday a 2 p. p m. m ft for Mrs Permelia Arvalene Abe AbercrombIe Abercrombie Aber- Aber crombie Hood a member of pI pioneering pioneering pio pio- neer-Ing neer parties in four different sections of the United States wh who died d December at 5 p. p m. m a athe at atthe atthe the home of her daughter Mrs Mn Lula in Duchesne of a heart heat ailment and general debility Sh She had been ill for several years Interment Interment In In- tennent was in the Duchesne cemetery Fought Grasshoppers Mrs Hood was born in Georgia Georgi May 9 1853 a daughter of Clemeth Clemeth Clem Clem- eth and Emmeline Jones Aber Aber- crombie She Shelved lived with her parents parents parents par par- in Lumpkin county county county coun coun- ty Georgia until 19 years of ag age when th the family moved to Mir fir chell county ty Kansas Among the other hardships of ol pioneering pioneering- they passed through the desolation of grasshopper y year ar There being a family of eleven en children they fought the hopp hoppers rs with brush switches not allowing them to settle undisturbed undisturbed t thus saving a portion of their garden while other families were left destitute of living and had to have aid this sturdy pionEer pio pio- fleer nEer family subsisted from their own efforts She filed and proved up on a homestead near the home of her parents In 1875 she married David Freeman Freeman Freeman Free- Free man I Hood who later died and left three children John Earl and LulU Lulu Lulu Lu- Lu lu ages 9 7 and 4 respectively With her characteristic spirit which never ne recognized defeat she took up the responsibility of father fath- fath cr er and mother reared clothed and educated her family When the Cherokee outlet was thrown open to settlement Mrs Hood made the race in a lumber wagon and staked lots in Blackwell Blackwell Blackwell Black- Black well Okla Olda where she resided till later homesteading in Western Vestern D 0 Oklahoma ded in Duchesne y In 1905 she came to Utah with her daughter who filed on a homestead homestead homestead home home- stead near Duchesne Without help from others sh she dragged in logs and built a lien hen hous dug a well ten feet deep to water and cleared cleared clear clear- ed heavy brush from the land clear I Rio She pioneered in lower Grande valley of Texas when that country was a thicket of gnarled t S ebony thorny underbrush and cactus abounding abounding- in Wild life The last years of f her life were spent in California and Utah t- t r vr Vl S. S rs she ha has been interest interest- ed ed ed A i- i in ith th the n work v k of the church Surviving are a brother Jarrett J J. J Ab AbErcrombie of Mont Montana na two Mrs Nan Hawley of Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- Simmons of Okla Oklahoma gon gon Mrs Anne 4 son Earl Hood of homa homa- also one Montana and a daughter Mrs Emil of Duchesne six grandchildren and one great grandchild ld Funeral services were held in inc inthe the L. L D. D S. S ward hall with Bishop c Rulon J. J Larsen in charge Following Following Following Fol Fol- lowing the thc Invocation by Mr offered a afew Oman Bishop Larsen few words of consolation to the bereaved family Rev J John hn L Lacher of Roosevelt elt gave the thc funeral sermon Two vocal duets Lead Kindly Light and Abide Abid With Me were given by Mrs Margie Peterson and anti Mrs q 4 Fern T. T Moffitt accompanied at atthe atthe J the piano by Mrs Frances Hair The grave in the Duchesne cemetery come come- Leach- Leach Rev tory tery ery was dedicated by er r. r |