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Show Early Pioneer Dies At Clifton; Services Friday The ranks of Franklin county's earliest pioneers who helped to build Idaho's first community were thinned again this week with the death of Henry J. Howell, 78, who passed away at his home in Clifton of ailments incident to old age. Services will be held in the -Clifton ward on Friday, June 27, at 1 o'clock under the direction of Hendricks Hen-dricks mortuary. Interment will be in the Clifton cemetery. He was born at Payson, Utah, on September 2, 1862. When only two years .old his parents, Henry N., and Elizabeth Bird Howell moved to Franklin, Idaho, where his father engaged in teacliing Idaho's first public school. Their next move was to the old Fort at what is now Oxford. A little later they moved a few miles southward and began building of one of Ihe first houses in Clifton where Mr. Howell had; resided until his death. He had been a loyal member of the L.D.S. church and during the active period of his life served in various ward capacities, notable as Sunday School superintendent for a considerable number of years Surviving are his mother, Elizabeth Eliza-beth Bird Howell, 95, and his sis ter, Mrs. Alvin Crockett of ires-ton, ires-ton, and brothers Edmund F. of Clifton, John E. of Pocatello, Wal lace B. of McCammon and Mrs. C. M. Alston of Salt Lake City. Of his chillren H. P. Howell of Logan, Mrs. Inez Henderson, Mrs. Earl William Henderson, Leslie B., Earl B. and Roman of Clifton, Orvid Or-vid E. of Nampa, Idaho, and Ralph B. of Whitney, survive. He has thirty-nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, n ft |