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Show ! PIONEER DON SEELY PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY Last Monday at about eleven o'clock ; came the very unexpected end to the useful life of Pioneer Don C. Seely, one '. of the founders of the county. Mr. Seely was apparently in fairly good health, though he had complained some of a cold contracted the day of his ' son, Azel's, wedding. On the morning he died, he had made regular little business visLs about town-'and had in- : tended going to Price in the afternoon. I He came into the house, lay down on the couch and there breathed his last without a struggle and with only his ; wife able to reach him in the short 1 period, two of the boys being on the door step but not quick enough to get in before the end. Don Carlos Seely was born at Charleston, Charles-ton, Lee county, Iowa, Jan. 4, 1846. Coming to Utah he was one of the first pioneers of the state and among those sent to California in early das, later ' returning and coming to Emery county along with his brothers and others, though he didn't move his family here until two years later October 23, 13S2. He was married March 23, 1875, to Hannah Elizabeth Reynolds. He made one trip east for emigrants in early times and numbered among the party James Peterson. |