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Show o Large Attendance Frm Out-of-Town Attended by a large number of friends from out of town, funeral services were held Sunday afternoon after-noon in the L. D. S. Chapel for James Clay, 65, who passed away Wednesday night. The speakers at the services were- William Morgan of Beaver, and Frank D. Williams of Minersville. Min-ersville. Bishop E. H." fllird officiated of-ficiated at the services and offered offer-ed the closing and grave dedicatory dedica-tory prayers. M. J. Christensen offered the invocation. James W. Clay was bom in Rochester, Ro-chester, England, in 1870. lie came to the United States when he was 9 years old with an older brother and some friends. They came to Salt Lake City, where Mr. Clay resided until he was a grown man. In 1S91, he was married mar-ried to Elizabeth Harris and came to Beaver county, where he was employed by the Union Pacific railway as a section worker. He was also an engineer on the Frisco branch railway during the "boom" of the famous Horn Silver Sil-ver mine. Later he was employed as a carpenter in the railroad shops until the shops were moved to Caliente, Nevada. Since then he has worked as a contractor and builder. He was leader of the Beaver Bea-ver choir for 15 years and was also assistant to Alfred Durham. He is survived by his wife, his son, James Henry Clay of Salt Lake City, his daughter, Mrs. Eh'a Sedgwick of Milford, and four grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. |