Show funeral held for geo searle valley pioneer funeral services for george adelbert searle 88 who died at the home of a aon son george A searle in salt lake city january 13 were held friday at 11 a m in the maeser chapel bishop lind conducting prayer at the home was offered by alton J vemon vernoa at the chapel organ music wag was played by b y reva bodily following short hort opening remarks by bishop lind a ladles ladies chorus composed e og of helen hacking clara hall eula hall lean leah abplanalp and mildred mansfield sang god Is ever beside me accompanied by ruth lind invocation was offered by dee jenkins first speaker was P F B Z colton who was followed by the singing of in the garden by harvey knight accompanied by mrs knight next speaker was joseph 11 bodily with closing remarks s by bishop lind the closing song oh my father was sung by the chorus morgan merkley offered the be benediction the grave in the maesel cemetery was dedicated by jo seph price interment was continued on page 8 OEO peo BEABLE SEARLE FUNERAL continued from page 1 the direction of the vernal mortuary Pall pallbearer bearers were ray mond searle jay searle woody searle muton milton searle paul batty an and aGarth garth batty mr searle was born in pay con son september 16 10 1864 1804 a son of charles and jane adair searle he ile moved with his family to meadow nevada and other frontier points prior to moving to ashley valley in september 1883 land in ft ff thornberr Thorn Thom bera borg one of the first seti settlers lers in D dry ry F fork ork mr searle later moved into what was then ft lie ile built the wm ackhurst home he ile was in the farming and cattle eattle business and was widely known throughout the are area mr searle married zina zino alexander alexaner in vernal september 9 1884 they lived in ft that winter but the next cpr berf spring r r ng went back to Whlter White iver river where mr searle hired out to work for keystone Kr the following november the c couple moved to meeker where mr searle worked on the niblock block ranch zino was very that winter nearly dying with ty typhoid hold fever mer later mr searle carried mall mail once a week to the Fergus ens ranch he had man many experiences breaking trail through rough the deep snow he also did carpenter work through the winter but returned to niblock in the spring g driving rl ang cattle to market in those days was a major job mr searle at one time drove or head with tom mcneil some of the animals drifted down the river and were 10 lost A under the ice lee during the winter of 1887 there was a lot of trouble with the indiana the state militia was called in to aid mr searle rounded up 40 saddle horses which he took up the mountain to the soldiers volunteers were called to go to glenwood springs tor for guns gum and ammunition mr searie searle and charles peas made the trip they were met on the way back about 22 miles from meeker by an escort of 18 men in the ensuing trouble jack ward one of the men with them was the first killed they followed the indians to range ly A fight occurred 4 or 5 miles below rangely langely in which several white men were killed and wounded and a few indians were killed about head bead of horses were captured from the indians when went out of the cattle business in 1891 mr searle returned to tor vernal where he lie worked for S D colton and co appointed sheriff in june 1893 mr searle was appointed by the county corn com mission to act as sheriff since he was still empl employed ogot with cat tie he be deputized pete ete dallman tract to act for him until he could discharge his duties the two rode together in the ath of july parade and began working together in september among his interesting experiences perien ces nees as sheriff is the time gerie he went to browns park to get joe davenport who had stolen some cattle after the river had started to freeze that fall fail he followed a fellow named mason who had passed counter flet money he rode n miles without rest to meeker got tot his men and brought them back to venial vernal mason was bound over and he took them on to provo when two men mea were caught killing a beef that did not belong di to them mr searle followed them thorn to browns park trailing them on the lee ice and finally locati locating ngy in IA a cave one was j a mexican of very bad character who was sent to the penitentiary Mr Searle taking nun irn out A m another stole a valuable saddle from johnsons plus 17 head bead of horses and li fv five pack paci horses loaded alth things taken from sheep camps campa John johnson find searle trailed them to just below Daniels ranch on green Rive rei they went back to jensen had trad a warrant issued aidar and mr aarle searle deputized J K bullock and henry chatwin after alter I 1 tr trailing alling the thieves all day they struck their camp aledo jumped into a gulch i and escaped theother the other man was cap captured t ure of and taken in the stolen property was recovered mr searle went into buying and se selling U in cattle L in n I 1 1890 89 0 f first 1 t i in n mee meeker ker I 1 and in gd t then h e n i in n t V vernal e m a I 1 1 he t e sold out in 1899 between the years of 1002 1902 and 1907 be he fur fished cattle to the soldier soldiers of ft duchesne under contract in 1017 1917 mr searle and his family moved to salt lake city where he held various inspector posts for the state and city government until 1934 when following the death of his wife in 1832 1932 mr searle moved back to vernal where he I 1 lived ved until about a year ago at t that time he returned to salt lake to make his home with his son |