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Show Hurst Funeral. . Mm F W. Hurst, who died on Sun- H day, w.is laid to rest Wednesday, tho ll funeral service being held In the Fifth -'1 ward meeting house. Tno speakers .M were F. A. Mitchell, John T Cilnc H Jr., Bishop Wm Hjdeand Paul Car- M (bn, and their words were but tho H highest-encomiums upon Uiu life of ;H the deceased. The meeting house was - flllid with friends and the lloral offer- 'i ing wero very beautiful. H Amelia Hawkins Hurst was the ll daughter of Charlotte Savage and H Samuel Harris Hawkins and was born H In London, England, Sept. 15, 1830. H When 12 years of age she aud her pa- M rents embraced the Gospel as taught JM by the Latter-day Saints, and shortly H after ciosscd tho sea to New Orleans H In a sailing ship. From Now Orleans H they Journeyed to St. Louis by steam- H boat, where they outlined for tho jjH Journey across the plains. They start- jl cd late In the season of 1840 and were H obliged to sojourn for a time in tho j then sparsely settled Interior of Iowa, lH where her father died. They resumed H their Journey to the mountains of H Utah in the spring or 1852 and arrived H In Salt Lako valley In September of H tho same year, tho whole Journey from H St. Louis having been mado by ox jH teams. She, with her mother's family, H suffered In common with tho rest of H the Saints the many privations Incl- dent to the settling of a desert coun- jH try, She was In the famous "movo ' south" at the tlmo of tho threatened H occupations of Salt Lako City by John- JH ston'sarmy. In 1859 sho became tho jjH wifoof Frederick Wm. Hurst. She Is 'lH survived by her husband, seven ohll- iH dren, forty-ono grandchildren and ono jH grca't-grandchild. Sho was a woman H of quiet disposition, slncero In her love 'H for family and friends and was much H respected by those who knew her best. ijH |