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Show StGeorge Pioneers Residing In Other Localities Submit Brief Life Sketches jNE BLAKE BRANCH, ANNIE GARDNER MACDONALD, JAMES And THOMAS HOUSTON TELL HISTORIES j,y J1.V15KL. JAKVLS T... jjue to Doing unable to ' v' nersonal contacts with " ! Pioneers residing else-C else-C we are compelled to their sketches in this r.ment, to the material m have sent. However, it that all of these . rs endured the oft-r.- hardships, contributed ot Clwth or the country and Iny projects and enjoyed " Xsures that were to be J J e Pioneering o this ,E BLAKE BRANCH J flelington, Utah Blake Branch was the ZeT of Benjamin Frederick 'iriet Hollis Blake, and Salt Lake City, Dec- 20th 1S57, coming to :De, 'with her parents at l, Sot lour, In December of ' , her 'Parents having become hprs of tne . fleered to Utah, prior to th. She has thus been iliated wh the L. D. S. S for her. entire seventy-;f seventy-;f vears. What schooling she f Jas obtained in the pnv-1 pnv-1 taught and Pubhc schools St George, and while this Vhrief in yea" she contrived 'J e thS best use of the op-afforded op-afforded and has been ;s fitted to carry on and to t the education of her own was married in the St. we Temple, January 18th, ;; to Eugene E. Branch, and J ilem were born the follow- children, Eugene E. Branch, , Rozilla Branch Thayne, and Stiii Branch of Wellington, 'jh- Irvin Branch, Ernest -inch,' Ezra Branch, Mrs. Olive iding and Mrs. Effie Anderson, of Price, Utah. Another son, :ri Branch passed away. Her '.hand died in 1906, but she a been able to carry1 on through i years. jue Blake Branch is one of i Blake girls referred to by 3. Mary Ann Maasfield Bent-i Bent-i as one of the charming young ty hostesses of the early days St. George. Her experience i training in this respect has ijed to preserve in her the i ot social contacts and she i kept youpg and charming agb. constant mingling with mis. It her life she has served as sistant postmaster, ajad '&s-aiit '&s-aiit manager of the Mercan-j Mercan-j BuBiness in which her hus-ad hus-ad was interested and employ-l employ-l She also served in 1898 as registration officer in Well-on, Well-on, Utah. From 1887 to Ml she was in the -ward Prim-tj Prim-tj Presidency and from 190 6 U26 was president oi wie 'Sington Relief society. Mng her married life she la resided as follows: St. George M to 1880; Mesquite, 1880 to 'HI; St. George, 1882 to 1884; wWlte, 1884 for just few Mhs; Price, 1884 to 1890. 1926 she has spent much ': her time working for the M in the various L. D. S. St. George, Salt Lake -F and Manti, and in visiting her children. She names hobbles, literature and fancy "ft Mrs. Branch is hoping to "We to attend the Homecom-ia Homecom-ia September. |