| Show santa clara keepings See pings sinta santa clara march rab 12 mrs marcaretti Mar carett frei departed this life march ath 1911 at the ago age of 81 3 ears ono one month and six days being the oldest female in santa clara clam at the time of her death mrs frei was mas born rebr february uary 2 1830 at Land schlacht canton churgan Th Tb switzerland and was baptized into the church of jesus christ of latter day saints in 1860 herself and husband were among the firby settlers of santa clara and has resided here ever cier since she has been a true and faithful latter daa da saint and has now gone to her reward mrs frei left two tuo sons jacob and edmaie R frei and one daughter mary frei who all reside here sixteen grandchildren and one great grandchild funeral services were held march larch ath in the meeting house winch which was beautifully decorated for the occa occasion ion with weeping willow willon geranium and verbena the speakers were elders john S stuck harmon hafen and bp john G hafen who all spoke of the true and noble character tei of deceased and the good sho she accomplished while on earth the recent floods did much damage to farm lands the hean heaviest lest gosei s are john Joh johneece ence nEnce the flood ing three different pieces of land geoage and henry graf almost almot cleaned out otillia reber her farm at three mile place practically all gone some others have also lost land fences etc the work done recently at the head of the st george clara field ditch has all gone also the he adgate our new brass band is doing excellent work and aon ou may see and hear moie of them in the near future much credit is due adolph hafen for pushing this undertaking and the development thus far made george graf seriously cut his foot m with ith a shovel while digging up young fruit trees that were mere in danger of being bling carried off by the flood alfalfa is three inches high and fall grain looks well mell spring grain up and looks good the grip has got some of the people here |
