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Show JOHN AHERN, FORMER MILFORD MAN, ONCE WITH BUFFALO BILL (Caliente, (Nev.) Herald) John Woods Ahern, well known and popular railroad employee, died suddenly on the morning of December Decem-ber 13, on his return home from work at the Caliente shops, where he worked as a pipe fitter. The extreme cold had evidently cast an additional addition-al burden on his heart which resulted in death from heart failure. John Ahern was 53 years, 9 months and 24 days of age, being born on April 19, 1879 in the Cumberland Mountains Moun-tains of Virginia. In his early life he followed riding, taking after his father who was well known as a jockey in England. After leaving school young Ahern joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show .touring Europe Eur-ope with the show as one of the Texas Tex-as riders. After leaving the show, young Ahern, who was a born athlete, ath-lete, followed baseball, playing for five years in the South West League. On February 20th, John Woods Ahern was united in marriage to Blanche Hannibal, the ceremony taking tak-ing place at Farmington, Utah, the young couple taking up their residence resi-dence in Salt Lake City, Utah where Ahern worked as pipe fitter foreman for the Salt Lake Waterworks, and later as construction foreman for the American Smelting and Refining Company at Garfield, Utah, he also during his early married life followed follow-ed wrestling and boxing, being a man of wonderful physique, but it was his athletic prowess that had doubtless strained his heart and caused his premature death. The Ahern family moved to Caliente from Milford, Utah, in the year 1929, working for the L. A. & S. L. Railroad since the year 1920, and the family have resided re-sided here since that time. The Ahern family had four children, Mrs. Viola Chamberlain, Jack H. Ahern, local athlete, Marian Ahern, who is attending the Lincoln county high school ,and an infant son who died shortly after birth, and John Ahern will be mourned by his loving wife Blanche Ahern, the three children, one sister and four brothers. John Ahern was a good father and citizen, a man who never complained of his burdens, supporting his step-mother and minor children and other relatives rela-tives in addition to his family, a man who always was ready to aid those not so fortunate as himself and he will be greatly missed in Caliente. |