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Show DIED t '"' .: V v-.&. - : :, ' I -' . .-. 1 . . -1 l X . r V,. ' j. - - EMILY BUNKER STEELE Mrs. Emily Bunker Steele died at her home in Delta last Saturday morning following a long sickness of nearly a year and a half. She was taken down a year ago last April, and removed to the hospital In Salt Lake, where it was found she had high blood pressure; nothtag could be done for her, and she'was returned re-turned home, the family almost dally dal-ly expecting the end to come. Low spells would be followed by gains in strength; steadily, however, she became weaker and weaker, until death came. Mrs. Emily Bunker Steele was ' forn in 1849 in Potowatami County, .' Iowa, and the family crossed the plains to Salt Lake City, she being only a few months old. Mrs. Steele's father saw service in the Mexican War, and was the first bishop of Og-den. Og-den. When Brlgham Young called the people south, he went in the van, and established the town of Bunker-vllle, Bunker-vllle, Nevada. The early . married life of 'Mrs. Steele was spent .in southern Utah, largely at Panguitch, i where four sons were born to her, three of whom, now: survive her. During Dur-ing almost all of her life she was an invalid. Not content with raising her own family,' she ' also raised the children of the other family, and by her indomitable will kept the faml-.. faml-.. liea.jtogether, . directed them. . (even froni a sick bed), and was the real . head of the family for years, during the time her husband was active in public life and home but very little. .Mrs. Steele had a very sweet char-: char-: acter. Long suffering mellowed her and. turned into nobler womanhood the characteristics of which she was abundantly possessed. Having passed through all the trials and tribulations tribula-tions of early pioneer life, she knew its rigors, its discomforts, its hardships; hard-ships; yet, they only tended to make her sweeter in character. In 1914 she and her husband came to Delta. Their golden wedding anniversary an-niversary was celebrated here two years ago, with fitting festivities. Liked by all, she was adored by the members of the family. The Bunker and Steele family plays a very important part in the early history of Utah. Mrs. Steele's father, Edward Bunker, was first Bishop Bi-shop of Ogden and established the town of Bunkervllle; M. M. Steele, Senior's sister, Mrs. ElUabeth Steele Stapley was the first white child born in Utah, and a gold medal to her commemorates the fact; both 1 grandfathers, Steele and Bunker, : were members of the Mormon Bat- tallon, Mrs. Emily Bunker Steele is survived sur-vived by her husband, M. M. Steele, ' (Senior), and three of her four children, chil-dren, M. M. Steele, Junior, John E. Steele, and Parley B. Steele, (a son, Arthur Steele, being deceased). . The sypmathyof the community is ; axtended to the sorrowing family. |
