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Show Estimable Woman Called At Axtell A cloud of sorrow was cast over! Axtell Sunday afternoon when Mrs.; Margaret Langston "Watts was suddenly sud-denly called by the Angel of Death. Mrs. Watts had not been well fur about six -weeks but was up and around the house most of the time and her sickness was not considered serious. Sunday afternoon she felt tired and while lying down asked her husband to bring her a light lunch. Mr. Watts sat down by the! bedside and just as Mrs. Watts sat: up to eat the luncheon she gave one gasp and died. The horror-stricken husband called help and when Dr.! Don Merrill arrived he pronounced the sudden death due to heart failure. fail-ure. Her two- sons, Denwood and Caton, and a step-son, Lawrence, were in the mountains when the tragedy happened. hap-pened. A step-dayghter, Rozella Watts, had just gone to the home of a friend, thus leaving the husband alone when death came. Mrs. Margaret L. Watts was born at Vardamon, Mississippi, December 18, 1877. In her early girlhood she was married to George Davis Langs-ton Langs-ton and from this union she" is survived sur-vived by eight stalwart sons. The death of Mir. Langston left the brave mother to battle life alone with her boys, but no task was too Tiard for: Mrs. Watts. April 30, 1916, she became a member mem-ber of the Mormon church. Her one desire then was 'to come to Utah, which she did in January, 1923, and married Edwin Watts, who survives her. Funeral services are pending on word from her two sons in Mississippi Mississ-ippi and one in California. She has one son in New Orleans, one in Florida,, Flor-ida,, and one with the U. S. Navy at Hawaii. In all probability her body will be shipped to Mississippi where her first husband is buried. Mrs. Watts has made numerous friends in Axtell who deeply mourn her untimely calling. She was an ardent worker of the Relief society. Mrs. Watts was a friend in need as she was a constant visitor to those who' were in sickness and distress. Her sweet, sunnv smile will be missed by those who knew and loved her best. Mrs. Watts was gifted in poetry writing. This was Tier way of expressing ex-pressing her thoughts and feelings. Sunday morning she expressed her thoughts of Heaven in a beautiful poem which she left unfinished. Her epitaph of a well-spent life can justly end with a clipping from one of her poems1 "Let us look up higher, higher, Than this world of sin and strife. Let us to1 our God draw nigher, For 'twas He that gave us life." ! |