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Show PIONEER WOMAN : DIES AT PRESTON Another of Ogdea's pioneers was suddenly claimed by the "Grim Reap-otfl Reap-otfl Saturday dvqnlng when Mrs. Polly LS? Barkc, Vwife. ot James Barker, Succumbed w A Djiralytla stroke, while vfslthig.aC the. home' bfh'er daughter, .Vrs. Marj fA.' Garner, in Preston. Idaho. Mrs. Barker liad boen in Plosion Plos-ion for ' two weeks past and last Wednesday was stricken with paralysis paraly-sis She was born December 1, 1S32, In Bath, New Hampshire, joining the church of the Latter Day Saints, in the early daj-s and emigrating ' to Weber county, Utah, in 1850. She was married to James Barker in 1851 and Is survived by seven children, 59 grandchildren nnd 55 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Barker has been an active church worker during her long life and at the time of her death was counsellor to the presidency of the North Ogden Relief society. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon In the North Ogden meeting house. Friends desiring to see hor In her casket may do so Wednesday and Thursday until 1 p. to. at the family residence In North Ogden. |