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Show oo PIONEER WOMAN IS SUMMONED BY DEATH Salt Lake, Jan. 31. Mrs. America Rose Kenncr Wetzel, a descendant of Pocahontas, of colonial fame, died at her -home, 571 South Fourth West street, yesterday. Mrs. Wetzel was born in Clarksville,' Montgomery county, Tennessee, on the Cumberland Cumber-land river, May 24, 1827, just eight years to tho day after the birth of the late Queen Victoria. During her life Mrs. Wetzel was always proud of two things, her Indian ancestry and her name, which was given in honor of her country. During the las few years of her life she entertained enter-tained the conviction that she was the earliest living convert to Mor-monism. Mor-monism. She came to Utah in 1859 by ox team. Here she was married to Edmund Morgan Wetzel, who died fifteen years ngo. Mrs. Wetzel is survived by four sons and two daughters, W, A. Eras-tus, Eras-tus, D. H., and Edmund Morgan Wetzel Wet-zel Jr., of Salt Lake, Mrs. Henry Hollingsworth of Oakland, Cal., now visiting here, and Mrs. James A. Faust ot Delta, Millard county. |