Show Sudden Death Takes Elvira Euphrasia Cox Day Pioneer Elvira Euphrasia Cox Day age SO RO died here heie In her home homo at East South in Manti 1 about 2 A A. A 1 M. M Saturday October 7 1944 Her sudden death came as a shock to her many relatives ana friends here Sho She had been up Ut tho the thoda da day before Friday morning sho she was in so much pain from liver and gall trouble that has bothered her ier almost twenty years tho the doctor doctor doc doc- tor or gave her that pea the awful pain A dozen friends had called to toBee see Bee her and had ed begg-ed to stay but she said sho she felt feIt so very cry tired as as she often did when her heart was not working Just right and nna Insisted that they go on ell homo home so she could sleep saying saying- sho silo could sleep much better if it she sho were alone Homer SIdwell and Ethel his wife wite and Aunt Caroline wife of Euphrasia's brother A. A M. M Cox lad had visited her that day So at nine nino o'clock Friday Priday evening Caroline CarolIne Caro- Caro lIne phoned to Ph son Orville Or- Or ville at American Fork FOlk about his mothers mother's Illness Euphrasia had visited her g nd- nd children in Highland near Amen Amen- can Fork the Sunday before ana aria the they had begged herto her to stay longor long lont- or T. T to make her bel home with them but she wanted to be bo In her own b home me Her lIer son Orville reached his mothers mother's home homo Saturday morning only to find she sho had hind died during the night Her funeral services wore held I at eleven o'clock Wednesday October October Oc Qc- i tober 11 tb Following was the pro pro- I pram J Song Rang by the choir Come Come Como Ye Saints prayer Ernest Mickel- Mickel on ion music South Yard Ward Quartet Come Como unto Mo Io Biography read by Mary Peacock address President dent L L. R R. R Anderson What Was Va Witnessed in The Heavens address Roscoe Cox of or Ephraim vocal solo sole Vera Keller remarks Bishop Ivan E. E Carlson choir music How Firm a Foundation Foundation tion lion benediction Elder A A. D. D Liv LIv- ingston Since Sinco Sister Day had lived In Fairview where she was born another another an an- other funeral was held In the tho Fairview Fairview Fair Fair- view South Ward Tard at three Sho was buried in the Fairview cemetery near her father Cather and moth moth- er r. r Elvira Euphrasia Cox Day Dai watt was born in Fairview Sanpete County May 19 1864 She was herself a pioneer for tor she he arrived In Utan Utah before 1869 1860 She Sho was a member of ff f the Daughters of Utah Pioneers for her parents camo carne to Utah In to September 18 1847 17 Her Hel brother brothel Orville Or Cox was wua born In ht Utah September 29 IS 1547 1817 17 being the first whito white boy born horn In Utah that lived to manhood Her T brother Delaun Mills 1 Coy Co was born I In Manti ManU March 21 1850 and und was 1 the tho first white whIto boy born In Manti ManU that lived Her father Orville Or Sutherland C Cox helped the tho Mormons flee fleo from I i Far ar Wrest West Missouri In the winter of ut 1838 1538 to Nauvoo Illinois and ana then married Elvira and Joined tho I church In the tho spring of at 1848 1818 bec be ha 1 c moved noved to Bountiful and was the thc M I Continued on page paso four lour 1 Ht 11 uJ ufa Sudden Death Takes Takes' Euphrasia Eu u ras is Cox Day a y y Continued from page one rUst bishop there He Ie was a great I 1 ditch builder and helped pioneer thirteen towns In Utah and on Inn tor Muddy in South Eastern Nevada A stone house built b by him In not northwest Manti still sun stands stand's sturdy and nd strong The cedar he set t. t Hi there re over mer ninety years ago still looks s just as good a as new tIer Her mother Elvira Ramela Mills 1111 Cox was baptized into the church as a child in 1831 1331 She Bhe was In Jackson Jackso l County Clay County Far West and Nauvoo Euphrasia was wa ell eligible to Join joint t the fhe e daughters of or the American Revolution for her great grand Irand grandfather grandfather father rathel Sylvanus Hulet as a soldier was n trusted scout In General Schuyler's army Sylvanus Is said to have been an eighth Indian o of the tho Mohawk tribe so that through his Ills descendants the promises of theford tho the fx ford id to Lehi Lehl are that hi 1111 lib seed should become a white anc ana delightsome people Not only her I Indian ancestors were here but Harold the Greenlander Greenlander son of or time the Kingl Kins of or Norway was in Am America America Amer Amer- r rica ica with Lief Ericson almost years rears l before Columbus She might have Joined tho th rol her Colonial nial Dames James Several of ancestors were in Salem Mass in J 1625 two years before the great Puritan Migration of pet people plc to Boston Doton in 1630 Three of h her r known ancestors were In New Kew England before the Ule Lion tion She could join Magna Mag Carta Barons Baron's Society At Runnymede twenty four Cour great English Batons forced wicked King John to sign sigu l I tho the first great paper paper giving us freedom from flom tyranny the Gr Great t Charter two Twenty-two of these I loft left known descendants She traces trace to every everyone one of these two twenty-two A Masna agna Carta Barons King Edward III of England was washer washer washer her eighteenth great reat grand father ohe he is descended from Wililam the Conquerors Alfred the thc Great and Charlemagne from Joseph of ot Arl- Arl mathea in whose tomb Jesus's hod body was laid from King David and md Soloman from Jacob and Ab Ab- Ab raham Sister Da Day was born in Fairview May 19 18 1864 4 in a log house with witha n a dirt t roof They sheared their own wn sheep washed and carded the Fool ool spun it into thread and wove it into into cloth and made their own Presses dresses sewing it by hand She was fourteen years old when she had her first dress made of store cloth They made their own dye dc Y Yellow Yel ellow el- el low fr from m rabbit brush blossoms orange orange or or- ange ange from the madder roots that looked like red roots blue from the thebe dye be pot brown from the squaw squawberry berry herry bush and colored their Home bonne hOI e made ma e cloth They saved the grease crease and tallow and made the only candles and soap they had or oi sixty sixty six six years rat r-ah fi a t teacher Sh She Sh be began an teaching i 1 in Sund Sunday y School when she was R are ae e fourteen The next year she wan waH employed by y the Fairview school trust trustees es to teach at 25 per month She Bhe saved sayed her money and next year went to school in Provo to o the Brigham Young Academy under Carl G. G Masser She graduated graduated from the two year normal Bourse ourse In June 1882 with 92 to p per r cent She has taught school ol at Fairview and other places in Sanpete County in three towns in Ornery lI ery County and In M Mancos Colorado and Bliss DUss Idaho In the B. B Y Academy she received ed per cent in composition In 1889 a long continued story of ot oth h hers liers rs signed E. E E. E entitled Out of ot the Darkness Into Light was vas was published in III the tho Instructor Many other stories poems and articles written by by her hen have been printed For special she has written written written writ writ- ten songs song dramas plays plas cantatas farces pageants poems histories and ancl stories Her Ber songs have been heen t In the temple In church reunions celebrations and on many other occasions and andl loved and l v d by singers and audience v r 1 tj 11 r f r rIn In 1921 he moved moped to ManU Manti and herr herr- fP was he Pl was ch rn n bv hv the big Cox fa fu i 1 I y gl keep Veep their pre r 1 s 4 a j I a She has filled d see i e ev bi big c looks gooks with records of ot work completed She has haf saved the names of more than 1000 women for whom she herself has hastal tal taken cn endowments She has taught genealogy classes and written genealogy genealogy genealogy gen gen- songs song I She loves flowers and ancl Is loved by everybody Y f j A Sl married Slie-married Ell Eli Azariah D Day on July 1 1884 in the Logan Logun temple temp c They had five lve children four of whom ar are living Ii Seventeen of ot her v- v 0 v- v nineteen grandchildren are alive nineteen en of ot Sher ber her twenty-one twenty great grand children Her descendants descendant I total fory She Is survived II I I Iby by one sister age 85 Tryphena Sidwell Sid Sid- well of Jerome Idaho three sons eons 1 Orville Orvllle Cox Day o of Highland Utah I Earl Day and Ernel Day Daj of Camay Cama Washington and one daughter I Ellen Heloise Helois Day Merkley of Mesa l Arizona now a WAG PAC stationed at atI I Roswell New Mexico 1 |