Show SI SIMEON f WALKER ALKER DIES Wednesday afternoon about 3 30 Simeon Walker died at the home of his son son William H Walker tram from general genral gen gen- eral ral debility and heart trouble Simeon Walker Valker was born in the Ward in Salt Lake City in 1850 His parents had come to Utah from Vermont V When en quite a lad the family moved to Millard County where Simeon lived for many years at Oak City When historic Old Fort Deseret was built in 1866 Simeon served as water boy boyan on the He was married three times his first wIfe was Kate Roper of Oak City his second was th Thompson of Murray and his third wife Mary Jane George of Kanosh He is survived by his wIdow and the following children Wm H. H Walker Mrs Mary O. O Mrs Lutie Watts W. W R. R Walker Le Roy Walker Vale Wal- ker Lee R. R Walker Mrs Clara I Stout forty grandchildren and six great grand children Two Of his children died In infancy SIm Simeon on Walker Valker was an old pioneer of Millard who saw it in the raw lived the trials the struggles the hardships of that period and had hada a a. life Ufe filled with those experiences which will wUl never again mem ories only and its actors one by one lessening He was prominent in Indian Indian In- In dian affairs and was often engaged by either the state or government g to Interpret and further was sought bythe by bythe the IndIans themselves to counsel on their own problems He could speak the dialect fluently In his younger days About two years ago a piece of flying flyIng fly fly- Ing steel so Injured one eye that It had to be taken out and by sympathy sympathy thy the other eye was weakened and eventually Its sIght lost so that he became totally blind Funeral services will be held In Sutherland at noon Friday and bur bur- lal at Oak City |