Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-07-01 | Page 14 | West Weber Pioneer Dies

00 WEST VEST WEBER PIONEER DIES Christian C Blanch When Boy Drove Cattle Across Across- Plains Christie ChrIstian C C Blanch Utah plo plo- pIoneer pio pioneer neer died this mornIng at o'clock at tho the family homo home horn In West est Weber following a few days illness He was as born In Harring Denmark December 16 1850 the th son on of o Mr and Mrs Wheatley Blanch Ho became a 8 convert to tho L D S faith In his hia own coun coun- country coun- coun country country try and came cam to America 11 In la 1864 H crossing crossing the th plains that year with an oxcart cart company Although but a 8 boy at the th time he ho drove tho loose loos cattle all the way across the plains plain and on arriving In Utah ho he h was paid one dollar andA anda and A halt half for tor his labor Since comIng to Utah he had bad made mad his homo home In West Weber lie He II had helped In Inthe inthe Inthe the of that communIty and had worked on the oon construction truc- truc tion of o the Weber canal and the Union Pacific railway rallaY Sir Mr Blanch was wa as married In 1890 and Is survived by his widow and 11 children Sirs Mrs Ir Heber lIeber C CWhite White Plain City Mu Mrs Mr Peter WInter Huntsville Blanch Plain City Mrs Irs Leo Jo- Jo Johansen Johansen Jo hansen Plain City George and Willard Blanch of Salt Lake Leonard Ralph Margaret Elmer And Roy Blanch of West W ber sixteen grandchildren also survive Funeral services will bo be b held on Sunday at 2 o'clock In the West est Weber chapel with Bishop GeorgeA George A presiding Tho body may moy be viewed at the residence Saturday afternoon and evening And also on 01 on Sunday until time of service Interment will bo made madIn In the tho West Weber cemetery Flowers may may be left at nt Lind- Lind quist's Lind-quist's ts t's until 11 o'clock on Sunday