| Show speakers tell pioneer life of I 1 JB B many hear tributes les given of the sterling character of one of ashley valleys most outstanding pio neer settlers Sett lors the funeral of 0 james 13 henry ashley valley pioneer who died suddenly asleep on night december 6 was held at the vernal venial second ward chapel on n friday at it 11 clock coilty commissioner ernest eaton by request presided and conducted A largo large crowd WM as present to pay their last respects to the departed there were many beautiful flowers even from those aft un able to attend by special request the maples naples ward quartet consisting ot of A 0 goodrich Oo odrich prank goodrich 0 odon don nell melt goodrich Oo odrich and J N lybbert iane ane some time W we 11 understand mrs albert 14 goodrich was accompanist A mixed double quartet rose mose walker mrs airs mae henderson enderson II miss alice cardnell Cald nell vell miss vonda speir joseph horrock Horr Ifor rocks oci prank frank goodrich Oo odrich amell low ell fox and alfred caldwell accompanied by mrs arthur manwaring tang sang oil oh my tather and sometime somewhere A ashley bartlett Bartl elt formerly of vernal and now of price and one of the very first children bom born in ashley valley barg aan 1 oh grave where Is thy victory as a a tenor solo accompanied by mrs manwaring manworing the opening prayer mas as by 11 W V woolley of the high council and the benediction was by EL J winder the grave waa was dedicated by george E wilkins and interment was in the zie vernal cemetery the pall bearers were ere llod henry earl berkley Merl Xer cley kley owen oen johnstun william Iroll eltz orasho workman and tvan ivan atwood james barnum henry henn was bom born in detroit mich june 30 36 1852 and died in vernal venial december 13 1932 of a heart attack at the homestead which he took up shortly after coming corning to the valley in 1878 2878 he lie Is survived by his widow two to sons alb albert tt al and merrell bothi of vernal three daughters mrs lauretta merkley of jensen mrs pris cula cilia lewis of salt lake oty city and continued on page eight TEIA TELL OP rion 1139 1 1171 OP i NI hg H continued from pope one mr mrs berth i peterson Petr reon of 0 ore allter mr mrs lauretta john tun of venial and ono one half brother john henry of lander wyo and tour four halt half sisters when wh 0 n two year old ho he came with f III ils par barnts rits to utah travel in I 1 rr ell all the ilia may uy by ox on team ilta ills early childhood daye days veto were in ilia lie canyons and towns surround ing salt lake valley later laur the family bellied settled in city on july 21 24 1878 lie married miss idlas I 1 mary brown of murray utah in the endowment house at the october conference ot of that year the couple with a number of other others were asked by brigham young and their names read off in conference to come to the ashley valley to make P ft per manent bettl ment hero here on november 0 1878 they landed here with chat few belong they possessed and immediately began preparation for the coming winter state senator hay IF Dill dallman mall ol 01 ir cosevelt Hoo oo sevelt was tho ilia first speaker at the tile funeral services mr jar dittman in lila his remarks related incident after incident in tho the life of mr henry showing the integrity of this early pioneer ot of ashley vaclev telling particularly tf ills his trip in 1880 to secure flour for the starving settlers ho ile paid high tribute to the ideals cl of a friend whom ho he had known from his earliest boyhood doya did mr nir dillman cn lie the life of the earlier pioneer with that of today stressing that the heritage they had left become an inheritance for or creator peater effort on the port part ot of those reaping the tile benefits ot of the hadr shIps they endured uncomplainingly state senator II 11 33 calder preal dei t of uintah stake mas the next speaker mr caldei quoting how flow dear to my hears are the scenes ct of my childhood ft ben pen fond recollections bring tham to view I 1 old told ot at how flow lie first remembered mr henry as a jiember or tle tile high cuncill p under Met ident dark clark 1113 ills justness just and humility hi in declA ons of church and other ants bente in the development of ashley valley he ile also paid tribute to men mrs henry who A ft as 48 ono of df tho the very few white women in the valley in IU its early history mr tir eaton in n few remarks told low how in ins ilia early bouth mr henry iad had glien kunstl which had materially teri ally changed his whole life it walter valter woolley Vo olley in his remarks touched the key lev note of the he pioneering life ns as leaving its to those of toda that ariess we shall profit by their endeavors the sacrifices they have made will hae lime been in 11 lain aln the tile inheritance Is ours it rest in our hands what v ve a shall do mth ith it eald said tile speaker I 1 it Is for this getie ration to carr I 1 on what they ro nobly started made manifest in the life of at all henry how flow do we me measure ne asuro up to all the have given us said I 1 mr henry pete peterson and nnie ine woodruff vere mere selected to 10 0 o oer over taylor following tle the old 1 thornburgh road to green aher 1 city wo to et flour ica the atoning pioneers of oll ashley valley with beav henrt heartel chev started out knowing oving that aall all I 1 speed possible must beaudo be ciodo wiling wild find coming or wild be atha from starvation in the mes they were mere leading leaving behind ey really d the trip would ive n d difficult it t one ore and hint that tiny accident to them mould mean delays delas kirt hadlock a veteran of the civil war had hadl receded received as tack back pay rn a pension mr hadlock gave this money for the purchase of flour and other for his starving neighbors and friends WIlin willingly gly sacrificing what in those strenuous times mas as a small fortune ard meant financial adian advancement cement to him over anyone else in the valley with um mone even at the high prices of flour and foodstuffs they kii v m it if the trip could be made quickly lere mould be sufficient for nil rill until a hanest harvea fc time with a n faith that seem seems incredible they ronde minde ther way across and loaded landed flour at oreen green R ier and hurried homeward tre glean river high from the mel tIlls inoes now when they leached it the ferry boat a log raft b bollt lilt bi thern carry but a lev lem hundred pounds at a time tills this necessitated annay trips to get the provisions is across the three wolken from early morning until lato late that couig waiting to food for me W glenry often graild I 1 it sr dined to hv ahva mery thing alst be done right nova no just as the last load mas as brought over and all were mere mor thim exhausted two wo other teams w ith pro visions came to the opposite shore Rne renewed Aed strength leered to b given glien the exhausted men and immediately they started to help ith the second loading and unloading but still without any food their one desire to get eiery everything thIng across before high vater which would men i at denst a six weeks meeks stav ta and 4 i stoned people at home again eer berthing thing was as across mr henry and the tho others testified that no sooner mas this than the lier began to rise and athin ten minutes had risen to the tilt unprecedented height of four feet their rejoicing was intense I 1 for they felt that it jf they could make tho we remainder ider of the trip in rood good time all would be well lauhead there aa no runner to bind ahead nothing had been heard ot of relief tra n by the pioneers their last bit of food had been allotted by jeremiah hatch president of stoke stake but one daylle day he made the rounds rounda to each rach homo and eald said if it you have anything to eat ent cat it today for the ilia boy boys will be in what faith and what rejoicing jutt as they were mere putting into the valley they were met by a number of the plo nevers cr who had come conits out to meet them and to give help when mr henry and comrades saw them their heart hearts sank within them for far they were cure sure there had been deaths from tion during their absen e the tint first thing that they asked who had et I 1 the flour and provisions were riven given in charge of president Preal dent hatch for the conanon good of all there waa was rejoicing throughout the valley ae tho ilia events of this trek and the incidents thereto have cone gone down As one of the remarkable things in ili the pioneer history of utah and stand out BJ as one of the remarkable incidents of any pioneering history of all time this Is one of the heritages mr henry has helped with others of those early times to leave to the future generations of the ashley valle out of which then lias lim arisen a generation as though set aern for a special purpose A Ren cration able to grasp the con of the new days that are now upon us As A was truly eald said by mr man A heritage and an inheritance for us to carry on given to us by sacrifice that the life of uncle jim and the other early pioneers made the tile ct today in ili these tunes times of depression dim in tit comparison |
