Show FilTH ATH CLAIMS PRES r ES H. H IN W. LUNT 0 LOSES lUTHERN UTAH UTAJI LOSES LEADER LEAD ER IN CIVIC AND RELIGIOUS SERVED AFFAIRS AFFAIRS SERVED STATE AS SENATOR AND ROAD COMMISSIONER COMMIS COMMIS- SIGNER I tol o ELD LD POSITION OF l IA MAYOR YOn OF OF CEDAR BISHOP OF OP WARD AND AND PRESIDENT OF L. L D. D S. S PAROWAN P PARO ARO WAN VAN STAKE WAS STAKE WAS A FRIEND FRIEND OF TilE THE INDIANS lot It is with keen regret t that we mus must ronicle the passing of one of South South- i s Utah's most active leaders in inic inie inic ic ie and religious affairs in the th ath th of Pres Henry W. W Lunt that tha lured at his home Sunday night a at after an illness of severa several eks duration the thc immediate cause I death being kidney ey and blader blade ruble ble Pres res Lunt was born in Cedar City juary uary 25 1863 1803 the son of Henry nt ht nt and Mary Ann Wilson Lunt 0 had gone to Cedar City the year core ore to found that colony the elder cIder it t having been placed in charge o of colonization work there As a ar r and a younger man he hc spent his i in the thc open chiefly following the Ige ge and many were the interesting ies ries he could tell teU of life in Utah that that era t FRIEND OF INDIANS le Je e was more than most men even l' l D are arc familiar with them a friend Ithe the Indians and he hc sometimes Fd cd ed as interpreter for them He 1 understood by the Indians and them and was numbered any nany of them as a personal friend me ome time after his marriage B. B Lunt went on a mission for the X S S. S church to England and was wase e president of the Liverpool conk con con- knee nce This was from 1892 to 1894 I i remained active in church work P f I bishop of Cedar City from 1902 1908 and after holding various ta It on the stake high council bee be be- lie e president of the stake known Parowan stake from 1920 until 15 5 b D a public way his life was even Fe e active He was three times b ber of the city council and ser ser- as mayor of his birthplace He lIe elected member of the state ite to te from his district including las ver Iron Washington and Kane ties ties in 1910 and served in the ions lions of 1911 and 1913 In 1 1914 14 came a member of the board of missioners of Iron county and he heed heed hered ed red in that capacity continuously 1 1922 ROAD COMMISSIONER i that year Governor Charles es R. R y yf seeking a road commissioner a the southern part of the state state lied the man he had known when lad d been a school teacher at Cedar Pres Lunt was appointed to the mission fission and served there until his hish hish h h 1 expired December 1 1925 If f late he had undergone two op op- ions for a malady The last one red ell eu f to be a shock to his nervous em m from which his friends say sal ever sever fully recovered Three or months ago his failing falling health me ime more rapid He lIe spent twelve Its ks in a local hospital in the hope hopeR R It enforced quiet might restore hi his s but did not recuperate sat sat- Three weeks ago he ask ask- to lo be taken home to be with his hisle pie le and he had been bedfast from fromI froma I t until his death res res es Lunts Lunt's business occupation f chiefly that of fanner farmer and livek live live- k grower He lIe knew every end of heep business and many were the Vesting resting and at times hazardous he had had on range or J I. I LEADER IN COMMUNITY a a leader In his community he only worked consistently for he conceived to spell profs pro pro- is but he was known as among first to support such movements lately and even at the expense Personal sacrifice The coming of automobile mode roads an al all all- problem In his community i Continued on Page 4 DEATH CLAI CLAIMS IS II W. W LUNT Continued from Page 1 I which was on the highway between I Salt Snit Lake and Los Angeles lIe He was active ve in obtaining federal aid for forthe the Lund Cedar City road rond which he hc afterwards considered as the tho first step to the railroad which later came cameto cameto cameto to Cedar City It Jt was partly this activity which lead leal to his appointment on th the state rond road commission and while there he was vas ever able aLle to deal sympathetically with the problems confronting the county commissioners He lie too saw the importance m 0 of developing el the thet I scenic nl resources of th e tat t n an d H V H VA a QU e 01 ked constantly for that end while I realizing that the roads directly serving serving ing the more populous valleys must first be placed in order Outside of oC his strictly agricultural business Pres Lunt was president of oC the Iron County Telephone company and had born been vice president of oC the theIron theIron Iron Commercial and Savings bank hank until a year ago when it merged with the Dank Bank of Southern Utah He lie was also aleo n a member of the board of di directors directors die di- I rectors of oC a n number of other companies companies com com- om panics of this region many of which I were essentially of a cooperative nature He lie served many years as manager of the Cedar Mercantile i Company Besides his wife children surviving Pres Ires Lunt are II II H. Lunt G. G Hunter I I Lunt district attorney in the Fifth Judicial district Ray Lunt Wallace i Lunt Willard Lunt and Miss Olive I Lunt of Cedar City Anthone Lunt and Mrs Elmer Ashton of Salt Lake Lako Mrs J J. J M. M Pond of Spokane Wash and Miss lona Iona Lunt Lont of New York |