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Show MARY LAWSOX K1RKHAN DBAD. Xn Ai;ed llbJldiMii of Sprfiivllli One of I In Iland-t'iirt. Conii any. Mrs. Mary Lawson Klrkinan, one of Sprlngvllle's oldest settlers, died at her homo in this city at 7:b o'clock last flight', nt gencVal debility hroiiglu on by old age. The deceased was a inetii her of ihi) fainiiiK haiiibcart compiiiy, and pushed a hand-cnrl across tho plains In 1830, In Capt. Edward M,ir-tin's M,ir-tin's company. Sim brought six children chil-dren with heracros iho plains to Utah. Hit husiiand Rubeit Klikmaii. started across tho plains with her. but died on (he wny, aod was burled at Sweetwater. In I ho same grave wl'h him whb burled their llttlo babe, only a few tuontlis ojd, whfch by n strange, coliichleoeu diet on tlm same night as lis father. Mrr.. Kirknian bad been married three time., and was tho mother of nine children, sovcu of whom ale still llvlnv. Mrs. Mtt'y Lawson Klrkinan was born In Lancashire. England, February 20, 18.'.-). and was past her "0th birthday. birth-day. The funeral coremony will bo bold at the Latter-day SnlnU tneetJi:R houso, tomorrow afternoon at 8:30 oVIock Spnngville Tribune correspondence, cor-respondence, March 11. |