| Show jI I I j OBITUARY ARY i it 4 7 t t I B By BIr Mn Mrs Lizzie A. A Pet Peterson n on Funeral services service of Gertrude Maria Marta Peterson were ere held hold at the Ephraim lm tabernacle I last lant Ht Friday Many Ian were wei-e the tributes ll verbal musical and floral paid her Especially pe lally did L. L M. M Olson who had lived in the Peterson Paterson family for 16 18 years eulogize her Mrs Mn Peterson Paterson was wan born born- bornat at Resor ReHor NUr NUra Norway a May 29 1830 At the a ago age e of 22 years years yearn she he left lert her native land to gather with taint saints in the valley of the mountains She crossed t the e plains a distance of or 1350 miles either either pushing or pulling a handcart uld under r guidance of Captain arriving in ill Salt Lake Cot in 1807 1 She Rhe later married Pros Canute Pet Peterson NoD and lived at Lehi In 1667 she moved with her husband and family to Ephraim whither he ho had been heen sent to preside She bore bravely her share of the trials of pi pioneer life rendered harder by the tho Indian troubles that existed then In her native nathe country she was an expert boat woman thus aiding her brothers rs in their tithing fishing business She was wall also an expert carder er spinner spinner spin spin- ner and fancy weaver the latter Jatter occupation oc oc- she followed nearly nearl to the last t. t While all the speakers kp sp spoke s ke-s so sowell well of her the half has half never been tola tole nor ran mm an it ever ever be Such a sunny sacrificing d disposition we seldom sel eel dom dam see Her lieI whole life has been devoted de to aiding the aged poor pour and sick No home hom so go poor no disease so sa dreadful but she would would venture in inand and help the inmates The writer remembers remembers re re- members when the diphtheria broke out in our town how terror to the people no no one dared to enter entera a a. cit city lot where a family had Maria laria after getting gettin the cOllsen her children all m married came into pur ur urh h home me helped U us through a a. long lonK siege e of quarantine also burying burning one that succumbed to the tho disease She has bas dressed more children for the first time also prepared more mora for burial than any other person ou outside of those appointed of late years and always without recompense recompense scarcely expecting expect expect- fog ing credit Long live her memory |
