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Show LOVED PIONEER GOES TOHER REST Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the Milford L. D. S. ward chapel for "Grandma," Elizabeth Eliza-beth Ferguson, 71, widow of Dan Ferguson and Utah pioneer, who died June 9 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lee Erickson, in Salt Lake. The funeral service was conducted by Bishop E. H. Bird and the speakers speak-ers were former Bishop W. A. Miller and Bishop Bird, both of whom spoke in flowing terms of "Grandma" Ferguson's Fer-guson's worth to the community and her -service in religious, nursing a:.d other activities. J. B. Duncan offered the opening prayer and Joseph Banks the benediction, while D. A. Tanner dedicated the grave. Musical Bum-bers Bum-bers included vocal solos by Mrs. R. E. Ellingsworth and J. M. Hughes, an instrumental trio by Dr. Charles li. Parrish and the Misses Sarah and Ruth Pool and a violin solo by Dr. Parrish. Burial took place in the local lo-cal cemetery. Elizabeth Huntington Ferguson was born September 19, 1861, as her parents, Joseph and Ellen Huntirg-ton, Huntirg-ton, were making their way westward across the plains, her father bein a member of the famous Mormon ba-tallion. ba-tallion. Almost immediately on arriving ar-riving in Utah, her parents began to establish their home in Beaver, where the decea-ed grew to young womanhood. woman-hood. She was married, about 18S5, to Daniel Heber Ferguson of Lehi and, soon after their marriage, they moved to Silver Reef, where Mr. Ferguson Fer-guson was superintendent of that famous mining property of an earlier day. Later they located at Tintic. going from there to Park City. He was elosery associated with David Keith (a brother-in-law i, Thomas Kearns and Matt Cullen, all prominent promi-nent mining men of that time, also with Senator William H. King and his brother, Samuel A. King, prominent promi-nent Utah attorneys. The family came to Milford about thirty years ago, when Mr. Ferguson opened up and became superintendent of the Moscow and Hub mines, a position po-sition he held for twenty-five years. During all this time "Grandma" Ferguson Fer-guson was endearing herself to a host of friends everywhere with her activities acti-vities as a devout worker in the L. D. S. church and in nursing. For approximately ap-proximately twenty years Mrs. Ferguson Fer-guson and Mrs. Joe Hickman served as teacher companions in the L. D. S. Relief society, in which capacity" she was known and loved for her untiring un-tiring energy and her cheerful outlook out-look on life. For the past several years "Grandma" "Grand-ma" Ferguson had spent the winters with her youngest daughter, Mrs. Lee Erickson, and family in Salt Lake, where she enjoyed the utmost in comfort and loving care from not only her daughter but also her son-in-law and the children who were as devoted to her as to their own mother. mo-ther. The one thing lacking was the contact with her loved Milford friend, renewal of which she thoroughly thorou-ghly enjoyed with the passing of each winter. Her husband preceded her in death and only five children survive, as follows Mrs. Boyd White of Colton. California; Mrs. Elizabeth Martin of Paris, France; Jack Ferguson of Beaver; Dan Ferguson of Las Vegas, Nevada, and Mrs. Lee Erickson of Salt like. The three latter-named were all able to be present but illness prevented the attendance of Mrs. White, and distance made it impossible impos-sible for Mrs. Martin to reach here in time. The latter, a dramatic soprano of note, has appeared in grand opera in Europeans capitals and is now engaged in further sudy in Paris. Also in attendance was Charles Fox of Salt Lake, who was reared in the Ferguson home almost as a son. |