| Show ACTIVE fa LIFE OF A PIONEER OF 1847 mother of mrs 13 1 I samuels ar hied in suit salt lako lake aits ut the lie ear tir it was I 1 bounded oun cled mrs airs edward D samuels and lier her sister in fit law las mrs george georee fisher return returned cd sunday night front from salt lake city where they had been attending the funeral of grandma fisher mother of mrs airs samuels deceased wits was eighty one years of age and had been in ili her usual good health until about eight months ago when she vas stricken with her last illness during the winter filter i mrs samuels spent several weeks at the bedside of her mother but had returned to vernal before the end came mrs fisher died on may at her home in east mill creek where she had resided for tre tle past fifty nine ears ifer her funeral summoned together an immense throng of people many being life long friends eight of her own grandsons were the pall bearers the speakers were bishop john C capson patriarch john neff joseph A fisher patriarch 0 smith NV C A smoot sr it a 1847 pioneer supt bupt horace it II cummings and L stillman A cortege of twenty a automobiles al omo followed the remains to their last resting place mrs edith evaline pierce fisher was born november IS 3 6 at brandywine chester counte pennsylvania her parents e embraced in brac the faith of the latter day sa saints 1 11 ts when she was a child and moed to nauvoo illinois where they assisted in founding that historic fit cit on july 1845 she was baptized by erastus snow site she wis among the band of exiles driven out of nauvoo nau oo 00 and spent a ear at council bluffs iowa in the autumn ot of 1847 she in fit salt lake city a few months after it was founded the journey was made in the compan ot or captain J B noble and in the division of jedediah Jede diali M grant her parents after afterwards ards moved to briganni city box elder county where on oil Fobri Febri nry lath 1857 she was united in fix marr marriage marri lige ige with jams Ni madison adison Ii risher slier they moved to east mill creek in 1858 IS 58 their union was blessed with a numerous pos s eight children fifty tu two 0 grandchildren grand children and fifty five great grand children i |
