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Show HENRY WALTON HALL DIES IN CALIFORNIA Services for Henry Walton Hall, 84, pioneer settler of Southern Utah and an active worker in the L. D. S. church, were held in the Comp-ton Comp-ton Ward chapel at 2 o'clock Friday, Fri-day, June 7. Elder Clark Murdock and Will Nixon were the speakers. Music was provided by soloist Angus An-gus White. Services were under the direction of Bishop Glenn E. Halls of the Compton Center ward. Six grandchildren were pallbearers. Mr. Hall died at the St. Francis hospital in Lynwood, Calif., on June 2, after a short illness. He was born June 12, 1862, in a covered cov-ered wagon with a buffalo robe for a bed at Toquerville, Utah, a son of Jane Walton and Job Pitcher Hall. He was very active in civic affairs af-fairs at Minersville, where he held offices as justice of the peace, town marshal, first president of the town council, and Beaver county commissioner. On December 4,' 1884, he was I married to Lucy Eyre in the St. George L. D. S. temple. Eleven children were born to this union, seven of whom survive. A daughter, daugh-ter, Irene Hall McQuarrie, preceded preced-ed him in death by 20 days. Surviving are his wife, Lucy Hall, six sons. Warren of Minersville, Miners-ville, Lorin, Herbert, Fay, Reed and Douglas Hall, and one daughter, daugh-ter, Iona Oottam, all of Compton; r 27 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, three half-sisters, Mrs. Bessie Law of Delta, Mrs. Agatha Woodbury of Hinckley, and Mrs. May Nelson of Draper. |