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Show oo pioneer woman in bounhfol'b dead Salt Lake, Aug. 10 Mrs. Jane Bee Hatch, one of the strong and Influential Influen-tial pioneer women of Utah, died yesterday yes-terday at her home in South Bountiful In the eighty-ninth year of her age. Funeral services will be held next Thursday afternoon at 1-30 o'clock from the South Bountiful chapel, with Interment in the Bountiful ward cemetery. ceme-tery. Mrs. Hatch was a native of Scotland and her early life was spent in that historic country, where on July 12, 1844, she was married to John Mc-Kechme, Mc-Kechme, who died in January, 1S48, leaving her with three small children. In 1849 she was converted to the Mormon Mor-mon faith and with her family started for Utah in September, 1S50. She went first to St. Louis, thence to Council Bluffs, where she resided for one year. As a member of Thomas C. Howell's company she continued her journey to Utah, reaching Salt Lake In September, 1852, and a few weeks later locating in Bountiful, being be-ing married on tho day of her arrival thero to Ira Stearns Hatch, who died on September 30, 1S59, leaving seven children as tho fruit of their union. Mrs Hatch never remarried, but continued con-tinued to reside In South Bountiful until un-til the time of her death. Mrs. Hatch is survived by five living liv-ing sons, Stearns, Flander, Reuben and Alvin F., Woods Cross, and Abram Hatch of Salt Lake. There aro also living thirty-nine grandchildren, eighty groat-graudclilldren and twenty-six great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Hatch was an indefatigable worker in the church of her choice, and during the hardships incident to the life of the pioneers In Utah she did for years the weaving and spinning spin-ning for herself and children. |