Show Behunin Reunion Set for July J ly 19 According to Ellen EHen Rawlings president the Isaac Behunin Family Association annual reunion will be held July 19 at atthe atthe the thee small bowery Jordan Park 1000 South West Salt Lake City from 12 noon until evening All descendants of Isaac Behunin and their families are urged to attend ISAAC BEHUNIN came to Utah with Captain Milo Andersons Anderson's handcart company company com com- pany and located for a time in Provo lie He was the first settler in Ephraim Utah where he and his family lived in ina a dugout lIe He later lived in what is Ls now Zions Zion's Canyon and was responsible for naming it calling it Little Zion because be cause of its beauty At one time Isaac was a bodyguard of the Joseph Smith Isaac Isacc Behunin's Be Be- first wife was Maribah Morton When she died as a result of an illness caught when the Saints were forced to to flee nee West Isaac later married a lifetime lifetime life life- time Ime friend of hers Elmina Tyler ON THE records of the association are over 2500 living descendants Because Because Be Be- cause of the size of the association it itIs itis is Ls subdivided into branches one for each of Isaacs Isaac's sons or daughters The branch with the largest number of descendants present at the reunion wins possession of the Isaac cup for a year Another trophy is held for a year by bythe bythe bythe the person doing the most genealogical research for ancestors or descendants Still another trophy is presented for the Best Book of Remembrance displayed at the reunion |