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Show St. George Woman Dies At Home of Daughter In Logandale, On Sunday LOG AND ALE, Nev., Nov. 20. Funeral services were held in the Logandale ward hall Monday, Nov. 17, for Elizabeth Vaughn Hunt, 92, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert Chadburn, from old age, early Sunday. She had been in Logandale with her daughter the past six weeks. Many relatives . from Enterprise, Gun-lock, Gun-lock, V e y o , Central, and St. George, as well as from other parts of Nevada attended the services. These included three of her four sons-in-laws, her only daughter-in-law, 17 of her 26 living liv-ing grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. Musio Numbers Music numbers were given by the Logandale ward members, including: in-cluding: "O, My Father", Mrs. Hunt's favorite L.D.S. hymn, other vocal numbers and a violin selection. F. J. Bowler of Gun-lock, Gun-lock, who for many years was close neighbor and bishop of Mrs. . Hunt, was the principle speaker and told many incidents of her life in that community. A sketch of the deceased's life was given by her granddaughter, Mrs. G. De-Los De-Los Hyatt of St. George. Born in a barn in Wales, Nov. 14, 1849, as her parents, William j and Dinah Davis Vaubhn, and an older sister, Martha, were making their way by ox-team to the sea front to come to America, as L. D. S. converts, she had just past her 92nd anniversary when death came. Her parents had been driven from their homes because be-cause of their conversion and her father died in St. Joseph, Mo., j , (Continued on page eight) Mrs. Hunt Funeral (Continued from first page) soon after reaching that place, and for several years the mother who later married William E. Jones, another convert, lived in Missouri. Her mother was a skilled physician and reared only the two daughters. Elizabeth became be-came a governess for the children of Capt. and Mrs. William H. Hooper in Salt Lake City. Mr. Hooper was the Mormon's first delegate to Congress from Utah. Settled In Muddy Vallley Mrs. Hunt came south with her stepfather and sister in 1864 and settled first in the Muddy Valley, then later moved to Clover Valley, where she married James A. Hunt, and they made their home in old Hebron, and later in Thurber, Wayne county, then back to Hebron, Heb-ron, where Mr. Hunt died, Aug. 11, 1885. With her five children she moved to Gunlock, where she resided for many years, serving from March 1888, for 24 years as postmistress, most of the time in Gunlock, and for four years in Central. Among her treasurers was a letter of commendation from the Postmaster General, and one from Pres. Woodrow Wilson. Active in L. D. S. church work she served in the children's Primary Prim-ary and the Relief Society, and trained by her mother, she became community midwife and assisted in bringing hundreds of infants into the world. Her sight dimmed by age, and suffering all of her life from a heart affliction, she has lived to see all but one of her five children child-ren buried. This is the daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. Robert Chadburn at whose home she spent her closing days, after living for ten years in St. George, where she made many close friends. She leaves also 26 living grandchildren, 115 greatgrandchildren great-grandchildren and 12 great-greatgrandchildren. |
