Show uncle bill billy y wall basin pioneer is taken by death bast aliu TO UNILE HILLY WAIL ANOTHER homi FR OF OV V LLLY sunday february 28 the vernal I 1 arst ward chapel waa was filled to over hawing with friends and relatives gathered to pay their last respects to william madleon madison wall who pass td away at hie his bone bome friday fob feb 23 at the age of 79 yeara years the casket was banked with beautiful dowers flowers and the entire I 1 service conducted by bishop if arum D calder showed the deep respect i in which the entire community held uncle billy wall bishop john eaton of glenes werd poke spoke ot of the early hardships and ancl trial trials through which I 1 uncle billy and his wife passed while ashley valley was yet a wilderness he lie also spoke of the kind heartedness and unselfishness ot of this pioneer former bishop joseph mckee bof spoke of the honesty and integrity of the deceased and his early associations ciati ons with him while mr mckee was bishop ot of the ward la in which mr wall and his family first lived president ernest ealon eaton ed the honesty and of mr wall and the true spirit in which he ibid his wife wits reared their thirty n children mr ind and mrs J if I 1 prows mrs mis wallace calder and E J fowler furnished the ringing singing oh my father beautiful isle of somewhere and I 1 sometime well we 11 understand der stand besides hu his wife mary J mecham mechem wall mr wall ie to survived by the following children marion wallace mrs abe hatch und and mrs tom terrell all of vernal lewis ot of alton ah mrs george powell of bluebell mrs 0 G W diction dickson ot of fort ducheane mrs maud duke and mrs emma mecham ot of magna utah M mrs ra 7 M Tet tetter tero Wa natchee washington all of his bis children attended the funeral except mrs mm maud duke and mrs emma mecham mech ch m william ilam wall was born at pota una tina county iowa october IS 18 1847 and came to utah with his parents in 1850 ali living rig a at t salt lake 1 he I 1 0 I 1 fought in the black hawk war and I 1 came to vernal in 1996 settling in I 1 I 1 gellnes ward where he and his family resided until 1914 he lie then T moved d to first ward and lived there I 1 until 1 I 1 his death In interment ferment was in abe vernal cemetery bishop mckee mence dedicating the I 1 grave |