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Show Mrs, Lydia M. Storrs ls Galled After an Illness f One Year (Joe- to Her ltcniird Funeral .Scnlccs Held In Viiicrlenn Pork and .Sprlninlllc. vEjfFi f4tmmm ISSSBi SW iV?9PiSVSSSSSSSSSSH SflSK m.mi?ii'v XtJJHBSSSSSSSSB vBHn "wwui 'JnJSSSH pSHSSSK. diUfllHDSHH mmWmmmmWIm Mits. i,viiv jr. Momts. (Photo by courtesy Salt l.nko Hejfald-Itepublicaii.) Hejfald-Itepublicaii.) After an Illness of about ono year, Mrs. I.yilla M. Ston-s, widow of tlio late Georgo Storrs, died at her homo In the Second ward Saturday evening, November 13, at 7.20 o'clock, from gonernl debility, For tho past throe months slio had been confined to her bed, gradunlly becoming weaker nnd weaker, until tlio nngel ot death enmo to her roller, passing away ns a tired child going to sleep. Her .sous', George-A, George-A, of Pnno, lllshop J. Il'J. W. and W. S, or tills city, and her threo dnushters, MrsS. V. lllid, Mrs. Klin Olseu nnd Miss I'.llzu Storrs, wcro al iter bcdsldn when tlie end camo. .Mis. I.yilln M. Storrs was tlie daughter daugh-ter or IMmond II and Hnrrlct I)rd Kindred, and was Iioin April 11, 1844, at Ipswich, SufTolk, Imglaud, and war b.iptlzcd Into the church or Jchuf Christ of Latter Day Saints lu 1853, at Ipswich, and in 1S5S, lu company with her parents and tlie rest ot tlio family IminlgratciK In America coining b) salllioat across tlie ocean and up tin MfisuVMppli rft-r. "lind from )tier rmmBii-TmrTicvriijTni,ij"()t agtT'ir walked almost the eutlin distant i from tlio Missouri ricr to Utah. Tin family, after arriving lu I'tnh, In eated al Sprlugvllle, this county On June -!, 1801, hho was married to Georgo Storrs, In tho endowment house at Salt I.ako City She made her home at SpiingvlUo until l'JOl, when ii largo portion of her children luulng moved to American Fork ! lle, she, In company with her hus band, moved to this city, so ns to b near their sous and daughters In thcli declining jenis. Her husband pn ceded hor to tlio great boyond foui years ago, Septemlxr 1 Mrs, Sloru Is survived by llvo sons and three daughters, as follows, Georgo A Storrs of Provo, lllshop Joseph H., J W. and Win. S. of this city, CIiiih A of Itlchllehl, Utah, Mis S. W. Bird ol ( Mnploton, Mrs. j:ila OIbcii and MIm.( I.lza Storrs of this city, besides K2 grand children pud llvo great grand ' children. Mis. Mattlo MeTague of thn ( city Is a sister of tho deceased, shei being tho only member of tlio original family living today, threo sisters and ono brother In tho family having died within the pnst eleven months Funeral services wero hold In thlf city Monday forenoon, and In Sprlnp villo Monday nf lei noon. The service at American Fork were held In tin Second ward mooting house, C'ounclloi W. S. t'hipman olllelatlng. A ipiar telle from members of tho ward ehol i , gavo tho opening nnd closing hclec-. hclec-. tlons. and Mrs C. K. Young sang "' Know That My Redeemer Lives." Tip opening prayer was given by S. I Uilpmtiii, nnd bonedlctlon by Hay I i Ni( holes Tho speakers wore Presl . drill S 1. Chlpinan and Clifford I Young. Tho body was " taken ' j SpiingvlUo on the 12 5 car, and xorvlees wcro held ihero in tho Thin , wind iiieetlng house. IllBhop WIIIIh K Johnson. Jr. presiding, tho Old Folk" ' choir, lead by Prof. Georgo Harrison, furnished tho opening nnd cloning selections; se-lections; Miss Wlnnltred Straw sang a solo, uud a quartette sung a beautiful beauti-ful soloctlon. Tho speakers wero: lllsliop Georgo It. Hill, lllshop Oliver H. Huntington, Elder John S. Uoycr of SprlngVlllo, President James H. Clarko and W. S. Chlpmau pt American Amer-ican Fork. Tho opening prayer was. offered by Elder Oscar Mower, and benediction by lllshop Georgo It. May. cock. IntcnnenO was in tlio city cemetery ceme-tery at Spririgvllle, alongside that of her husband. |