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Show j ANNIE SLAUGHTER IS 'MOURNED BY COUNTY ! FUNERAL ON SUNDAY Mrs. S- Slaughter passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G. W. Woodhouse, in Beaver, on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, May 27, 1931. The funeral march was played by Clara Woodhouse. "Rest for the Weary Soul," was rendered by a double mixed quartet composed of Mrs. Hattie Ashworth, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Fernley, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Murdock, Milo Baker, Joseph Bakes and Mrs. S. L. Tanner. Prayer was offered by Elder S. O. White, Jr., followed by a quartet number, "In that Beautiful Land." Hon. J. F. Tolton gave a talk, which was followed by a vocal solo, "The End1 of a Perfect Day," by Mrs. Hattie Ashworth, Miss Clara White playing the piano accompaniment. I Bishop C. Dennis White gave an address, and the quartet rendered "Let the Lower Lights be Burning."' Benediction was given by Elder Samuel Sam-uel D. Hutchings. The "Dead March in Saul," was played on the pipe-organ pipe-organ by Miss Clara Woodhouse. Interment was in tne Mountain View cemetery, and President T. W. : Gunn dedicated the grave. .Annie Elizabeth Slaughter, wife of j the late Samuel Slaughter (son of ' Edward and Catherine Cronk Slaughter, of Sandwich, England) ! was born at Cape Town, South Afri-I ca, February 19th, 1844. She was a daughter of Robert Huey, an Irish ! (Continued on back page) I o ! ANNIE SLAI'GHTKK !M MOURNED BY COUNTY FUNERAL O.N SUNDAY (Continued from page one) Canadian, und Cluru VV. Thomas, a i-Hi.c.-ii of Cape Colony anil of Hoi-kind Hoi-kind Dutch and Kngllsh decent. Annie waa the oldest of three hIs-leis hIs-leis and three hrotheiH, having one tdster living In California. The Huey family, accompanied by S. N. Slaughter, "set sail" from I'ort Klizaheth, Cape Colony, March 1860, hound for Utah via Ilosion. Samuel i Slaughter and Annie K. Huey were married at Florence, Neb., .June (i, 1860, traveling by ox-team to Salt Iake City, in the Neplii Johnson John-son Company, reaching their destination destina-tion October fJlh of that year. Mr. Slaughter found employment at the Pugsley Tannery and built a home. Their first four children were born in Salt Lake City, and the remaining re-maining nine were born In Beaver, where they removed in 1869. Mr. Slaughter took charge of the Beaver Tannery on his arrival, and operated it until tho tannery discontinued business in about 1883-84. Mr. Slaughter was assessor and collector of Beaver county for eleven elev-en and a half years; school trustee lor six years; county commissioner I wo years, and also a member of the High Council of the Beaver Stake. Tho family moved to Frisco, Beaver Bea-ver county, In 1895, buying the mercantile mer-cantile business of Dotson & Son. In 1 903 theyinoved to Salt Lake City - mid continued in the store business for some time. Mr. Slaughter died In Salt Lake, January 21, 1926. Tho children are Mrs. James Hall and Mrs. 'Geo. Woodliouse, Beaver; Mrs. J. L. Griffiths and Mrs. Frank Osborn, Milford; S. C. Slaughter and Mrs. J. P. James, Salt Lake City; E. If. Slaughter, Portland, Ore.; Walter Wal-ter Slaughter, Twin Falls, Idaho; John Slaughter, Clearfield, Utah; W. II. Slaughter, Bakerslield, Calif.; Mrs. II. B. Sackett, Long Beach, California; Cal-ifornia; Mrs. C. P. Madsen, North Hollywood, Calif.; Robert, who died in 1877, at 4 years of age. There are living: Forty-six grand- children, sixry-threo si-tut. grandchildren, grand-children, and four great-great-grend children, making a posterity of one hundred and twenty-five. The funeral services were held it the Beaver East Ward'Chapel at 3 p m., Sunday, May 31, Bishop C. Dennis Den-nis White, presiding. |
