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Show Pioneer Observes 90th Anniversary White-haired bult as erect and active as she was 25 or even 50 years ago, Mrs. Margie Laura Clay celebrated her 90th birthday Monday of last week at the home of herself and husband, E. W. Clay, at Burbank, small Millard county community some 70 miles weslt of Milford. In her four-score and ten years, Mrs. Clay has spanned and survived sur-vived tragedies as well as time. Her first husband, Ed Lake, a miner in the old Hamilton, Nevada, Ne-vada, mines, was killed in a mining min-ing accident shortly after she had completed the long and weary steamer and isthmus trip from her Massachusetts home. Two of the Clay family sons were killed in typical western accidents, a stampede stam-pede and a drowning. Though well past the years of usefulness for most people, Mrs. Clay continues to do her own housework on the Clays' ranch at Buribank. Born on the Massachusetts-Vermont line on February 15, 1853, Mrs. Clay came to Nevada in 1868. She moved to Utah in 1872 and married E. W. Clay (now 85) in December, 1884. They have two sons, L. G. Clay of Milford and B. G. of Salt Lake City. Fondest recollection of Mrs. Clay's is the visit of Calvin Coolidge, a' former student with her at Ludlow Seminary in Ver-mont, Ver-mont, when he stopped at their ranch on a cross-country trip during dur-ing his years as president. Member Mem-ber of the Luther Burbank family group, Mrs. Clay can claim kinship kin-ship with the Duchess of Windsor through the Warfield family. A? |