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Show heath r.Y nr.G'.VNiNi;. Sad Death of ."lis. n. J. Barlow. Olu anJ j Respected Resident of St. George. j CH!vn of Hi. Umr-is were tiai-tlcu on Thursday night by tiio inscilicnec j that old h.iy Barlow had bucn found j drowned. The particulars are as follows: fol-lows: She had been visiting at the J homo of Bishop C. A. Terry, and left there a litlle before 7. p. ni. to return i homo. Sho was discovered lying in the ditch by Malvin Terry, a boy about eleven years old. The boy saw something some-thing in the ditch and reported that it looked like a person with something over the head.. Upon going to the place it was seen that the person was Mrs. Barlow. The discovery was made about 10 p. m. The old lady had apparently ap-parently stumbled raid fell, striking her forehead upon the rocks with which the ditch is paved; she was thus stunned, and her head falling into the ditch she was drowned. The ditch had recently been cleaned out, the debris deb-ris being thrown up on the side, and it is supposed that she stumbled over this debris. She had been knitting, and when found had the knitting in her hands, her arms being wrapped in the shawl which covered her head and shoulders. A bruise across her forehead fore-head showed that she fell and struck it before being drowned. There was not the slightest sign of a struggle, nor did the calm and peaceful features betoken any of the usual signs of death by drowning. A number of people passed the place where she was lying and had to move out from the ditch owing to the body having- dammed the water which flooded the sidewalk. They supposed sup-posed the obstruction was caused by leaves and did not pay any attention to the matter. Mary Jane Oliver Barlow, relict of Oswald Barlow, was born in England', May 1831; died at St. George, Utah, January 18, 1900. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the old country, afterwards coming to Utah with her husband. She was one of the earliest settlers of St. George, and has resided here ever since. Deceased was the mother of nine children, three of whom survive her, Arthur Barlow and Mrs. John Bleak of this city, and Mrs. Loomis Barlow of Richfield. Sister Barlow was a faithful Latter-day Saint. |