| Show i MART ARL PECKS PECK'S FUNERAL t KANOSH Millard Co September 25 1894 An article in the NEWS of ot September Septem Septem- September September ber t oon conveys the impression that there r was wa some uncertainty about the identity of ot the be boy who recently came death in a storm in the moun- moun moun aIM near this place This perhaps tr from m the statement in the earlier d ditch h that the boys boy's boy s home borne was M 4 thought not to be at Provo as it wa was known that his biB father had left lett that place inquiry showed that the boy had hao lived Jived there all aU his hia life recent recent- recently recently ly with his bis grandmother He came tram from Provo with John Chesley a Provo man Mr William WilHam Cummings one of our citizens was acquainted with his ble father also alao Richard told us ua in the presence of the Reeves Iii that he knew the boyd boys mother well welland and the boy as her son also both of or his bis grandfathers Those gentlemen expressed ex- ex ex expressed pressed themselves after atter their visIt here as aa perfectly per satisfied that the burled boy was not Sidney Reeves Saturday last a letter was waa received ved from rom the dead boys boy's father E M Peck now residing at Richfield Cache county thanking the people of Kanosh for tor toe the kindness shown towards his unfortunate son Your our correspondent as a juror ex- ex examined ex examined every inch of the boys boy's body it being washed by men in the pres- pres presence pree-euce pree enoe ence of ot the jury It bad had not the faint faint- faintest faintest est resemblance to the picture picture of or young Reeves whose hair and and eyes are dark while Pecks Peck's s eyes and anti hair were remarkably re- re remarkably re remarkably light We dressed the boy In a new made suit of white covered the coffin also allo with white had the corpse en 0 oren at the meeting house where the funeral services w-re w held under the direction of our Bishop and the writer and Mr D S Dorrity were named to speak Everything was done by the people here for tor this boy with the same t tender re regard ar for tor the dead as though hough be he wa was one of their own obil- obil uren uren and although the boy had bad been dead for tor several days daya the cold of or the mou bad preserved the body without the least smell of death nor was it the least swollen and almost as Umber limber as in life Ute Thinking this ex- ex explanation explanation ex explanation may y be satisfactory to aU all interested I am Yours Yours respectfully GEORGE CRANE |
