Show D t haf of father and son I 1 held geld accidental one of strangest shooting 5 was closed last friday night morgan when a coroners jury in n composed om posed of M J davis R H rich y chadwick and W george trough brough held that a 76 year old father and his SS 33 year 0 old son were accidentally cd dentally shot to death test taken indicated that thai y y francis was killed instantly slug from a 22 rifle while in M a de chic chicken en c coop p near his home in morgan he e was shot when a rifle la the e hands bands of his son carl frailly discharged when the unger lounger nian man swung the weapon round around to aim at a target not that the bullet had enter id j the chicken coop and killed his father after he reloaded the weapon while his brother rulon walked out adjust the target carl leaned to t aijrer brer and set the gun butt down on tile ground aground again the weapon dis char ced bied this time killing carl TV tl ife be was rushed into the francis biome e and a physician was called to 0 treat him rulon testified then rt err ibers of the family went in arch b of the elder francis to in dim him of the tragedy only to lad him dead in the chicken coop william Wise bradt francis was IOTO in morgan october 6 1864 ti te he first white boy to be born bom in the ity ills his parents were samuel and aher Wise bradt francis i ile he attended the university of c teh it and returned to morgan as a ade de school mm from 1897 to 1900 mr francis tilled a mission for the L D S tt 11 church hu h in the netherlands one of his first church offices ras ra that of sunday school secretary jor or morgan stake from 1900 to 1927 it se served in the presidency of moran gan stake and was a patriarch at the he time of death I 1 A former morgan county clerk I 1 he K had also been active on the 21 phool board tor for about 15 years instrumental in founding morrs morras p an n high hie a school and largely thru U Us bb efforts the schools in morgan T I 1 tonnyy were ere consolidated yr mr francis franc is married miss vilate L itce ie in the logan L D S temple december 1 1887 who preceded to hh in death he married cecilia knight november 28 1906 in the wt silt lake L D S temple surviving are his widow five MB and daughters by his first arriage mrs eva wakefield of ogden marion francis of gridley cal urs mrs wilhemina jensen Je ien of san francisco cal mrs leona emmett tf of smithfield field and william francis ol of salt bait lake city and eight sons and daughters by his ecard marthelma arlage francis rulon frana cis clarence francis beverly franis and barbara bambam francis all of morgan mrs airs leah F of alt lake city mrs vera F brough ough of evanston wyo and mrs grace F rich of provo 25 grandchildren 13 great grandchildren two 0 o brothers and two sisters alon 20 and walter E francis or of morgan argali mrs cevina francis or of salt lake jl cit and mrs james hopkin of poy croydon don warel carl ca wallace francis 33 wa born w october 31 1907 at morgan gan a of william Wisa radt bradt and cec I 1 B knight francis he was in the ang and poultry business with s father he never married ile be had attended morgan county als ch and graduated from morn high school and weber colle college ze re attended B Y U for a ye arand 1 in I 1 hall for merai years he was a aber of the south morgan L D S vard d bishopric and had also been member elliber In of the morgan L D S stake Y M M I 1 A board lie Is survived ed by his mother tou fou brethers brI to and nine sisters double funeral services were con j gilted tuesday ay at p m in the argan agan L D s tabernacle with bislis P B R H rich of the south borga an n ward officiating follow ing aas was the order of the services the lords prayer fyer the allegro e under the direction of s ada waldron invocation john H pase e trio tho softly and tenderly Tena Ten erly cerly catherine white rine eddington flaurie E conand myrtle richards ac ke by vesta S francis arar cis dealers alers ers R R fry and G S heinrich tt r solo 1 I in n the garden myr myrtle tle albert ards s speaker sp ger elder george ert of mn an expression y from f rom the high priests 0 runt 11 rl ad lson set by david robison Rob secretary T 1 remarks Ren larks bishop rich reach wa me e to pray allegro 31 are benediction george brough ers interi interment ent was at the south morgan cemetery where the grave was dedicated by alonzo hopkin |