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Show j Mrs. Jane Thomas Carter :j Dies This Morning After Four-Month Illness f Funeral services will be held Fri- ', day, May 21st at 4 p. m., for Jane Thomas Carter, 80, who died at I her home at 4 o'clock this (Thurs- J day) morning, after four months' f illness following a stroke. Bishop James Andrus of the West ward J wHI conduct the services. . Born in Salt Lake City Feb. 15, 1863, she was a daughter of Elijah and Harriet Johnson Thomas, early J L D.S. converts, her mother from J England and er father from Mis-, Mis-, souri. She was a small child when ; fne family came to Dixie, residing "i Leeds for many years where ; she helped her father with the making of caster and benea oils, k and experienced all the hardships J Md joys of pioneering. V On Dec 13, 1882 she was mar- nl in the St. George Temple to WiHard Carter, son of Utah's early , Plowman, William Carter, and has j nce made her home in St. George. husband died July 16, 1899, i cavinS her with five small child- . ""n for whom she provided en- i ffl ""til they were able to be -sustaining. She also cared for , nf aged parents until their lives ended. , Devout in her religious beliefs J -Jgwtjnued on page eight) Jane Carter Dies (Continued from first page) she has served many years as a Relief Society block teacher and is a charter member of the Foster D. U. P. camp of St. George. Since early womanhood she has suffered from defective hearing, but has been an honest, hard-working, self-supporting self-supporting woman, especially faithful faith-ful in the care of one daughter who has been a semi-invalid since childhood. Surviving are three of her five children. Ralph T. Carter, Mrs. Lee Adams and Miss Lilly Carter, all of St. George; one brother, Monroe Thomas, address unknown; and a half-brother, Elijah Thomas, aged 92, in Snowflake, Ariz.; eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. |
