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Show Mrs. Woolf Dead. Hyde Park's Most Beloved Woman Passes Away. Saiah Ann Woolf. aged ninety-one j cars, died at Hyde Park at tho home of her son, Absalom Woolf, on Sunday at 5 p.m. There is a great deal of unwiltten history about this good and patient woman, with her husband John Anthony An-thony Woolf who died about twenty-six twenty-six jcais ago at Hyde Park. This couple came from some of the best stock In Amcilqa. Tho deceased's maiden name was Devoe and tlie ancestry an-cestry of this couple were two of the thousand prisoncts captured during the levolutlon. When the couplo Joined tlie church valuable property was left in tlie vicinity of New York for which the," could have secured thousands of dollars, If pioper attention atten-tion had been given It. Their lcllglon was foremost with them, however They emigrated to Nauvooand bought a farm on which they lived until the exodus of the Mormons from that locality. lo-cality. John A. Woolf at that time was the owner of good horses which were alwajs at tho disposal or the Prophet Joseph and others when needed. need-ed. They camo west with some of the first companies. Ilcfore coming to Hj do Park the family lived in Neplil, known In early dajs as Salt Creek. Hy tills time some of their sons had grown to manhood and they with their father weroalwajs to the front when raids were made by the Indians on tlie settlers. Tlie family moved to Hyde Park In tlie spring of 1801, and no family did more to settle and build up that place than they. Tlie name of Woolf is a synonym for honesty and uprightness. This couple laiscd a most noble family, their progeny numbering num-bering hundreds. Up to the present time it can be truthfully said that not a bad deed can be charged to any of them who bear tlie honored name of their noble ancestry. Tho funeral will be held at Hydo ParkonThuis-day ParkonThuis-day (tomorrow) at 12 o'clock noon. |