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Show :: DEATH OF PIONEER :' RECALLSEflRLYDAYS ' Joseph Barney Wintle, a pioneer of '- Utah and Ogden, died Saturday at 10 i n. m. at the family residence, 878 Twenty-fourth street He is survived by the following children: Mrs. A. T. Waldram, J. B. Wintle, J. C. Wintle, J. W. Wintle, Mrs. C. A. ' 'Malan, Mrs. Nellio Covington, Mrs. ' J L. Wykes, Mrs. Grace Doran and Austin T. Wintle. Twenty-one grand- ; f children -and aeven great-grandchil- ! dren also survive. ; i Mr. Wintle was born Feb. 29, 1840, ; in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, the son of George and Elizabeth Sewell : ' Wintle. His father was an. English marine and his grandfather, a ship carpenter. The boy early learned to i love thfe water and passed much of his time near it. While he was an infanr, j his parents became converts to tht doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and, at S years of ago, Joseph was baptized ' into the church. Shortly after this, ; the family moved to London and from : 1 there emigrated to America. At sixteen the boy started his first : journey across the plains. He was j '' hired out by his grandfather to drive ' ' an ox team tor a Mormon company I which arrived in Utah In 1857. When the party arrived at Salt Lake he was ,' ', overcome with home-sickness, being tired and weary from the long jour-i jour-i ney. The train he came with movea ', ' en to the northern part of the state, leaving him alone in Salt Lake City, lie worked at odd jobs for Brlghani Young and others for a time and then i I returned to St. Louis, coming back to l Utah again In 1859, driving a team iu the Jim Brown company. He rode tb I pony express in 1S60 and in the be ginning of 1861, first on a western route through Nevada and then from Fort Carney on the South Platte rivei: to Cottonwood Springs, a distance or 110 miles. It was while riding on tho latter route that he carried the news of Abraham Lincoln's election, covefr ing the distance in five hours. In the spring of 1860, while riding on the western route through Egnn canj'on, he was pursued by Indians for twenty miles and had it not been for the swiftness of his horse he would undoubtedly have met death. How-over, How-over, he roached the station in safety but the horse dropped dead before it could be unbridled. Mounting another horse he started westward to meet another an-other rider with whom to exchange mail. Upon approaching he saw that the boy was badly frightened and soon learned that he also had been pursued and shot at by the Indians, the evidence evi-dence being a hole through hlB hat. After trying to encourage one another, they exchanged mail and started on their separate ways, neither of them encountering an Indian on the return journey. Mr. Wintle then went again to St. Louis and helped his parents to Utah in 1862, this making the fifth time he bad crossed the plains. In September, 1862, he was married to Sarah Jane Evan at West Weber, who was drowned two months later in the Weber river. On April 2, 1&63, he was married to Mary M. Wilson at West Weber. She was born May 15, 1842, at Nauvoo, 111., and died November 11, 1911, at Ogden. Og-den. There were fourteen children from this union of whome five daughters daugh-ters and four sons are living. At the time of his second marriage he was living on a twenty-acre farm In West Weber. The method of obtaining obtain-ing these farms was for one man to settle on a quarter section, then divide the land between other men and In that way all together could pay for It. In a few years the family moved to Hooper, later to Birch Creek, thence to Wilson and in 1902 to Ogden, where the family home now is. All ot his time, however, was not spent in farm ui&. xie was ii atuimu uuuuntri, iittvui a butcher 6hop many years in Hooper and later in Ogden. The first suit of clothes Joseph Wintle Win-tle had after coming to Utah was made by his second wife. He clipped the wool from the sheep and his wife washed, carded and spun it into yarn The yarn was then taken to a weaver and mnde Into cloth from which his wife made the suit Having no dye, the cloth of course was a gray mix ture and was called sheep's gray. |