Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-13 | Page 4 | One of First Women of Ogden Dies in Arizona

ONE OF FIRST WOMEN OF OGDEN DIES ! IN IZO! I Mrs James M. Brown, 2843 U";; ington avenue, today received cvc. . from Thatcher, Arizona, that Pho A. Brown Fife had died there January 0 Phoebe A. Brown-Fife was boi n Steuben county. New York. May 1881 the daughter of Stephen am. Abigal Smith Abbott. The mother and her eight child. - i emigrated with the Latter-day Sain1--to Utah, arriving at Brown's Fort, nov, Ogden, October 3, K4f. Phoebe became a wife of Capta n James Brown in 1850. She was treasurer treas-urer of the first Latter-day Saints Relief Re-lief society in Ogden She cared for wounded soldiers brought in from Connor's fight with the Indians, and was a very active worker in the establishment es-tablishment of the community. Widowed Wid-owed by death of her husband. James Brown, September 30, 1863, she late emigrated with the Saints to Arizen i and Mexico, where she materially aided aid-ed In the development of those colonies. col-onies. She died at the home of a augV ter Cynthia, at Thatcher. Arl., af the age of 83 years, seven months and twenty-two days. She is suv vived by two sisters, Lydia Squires, of Long Beach. Cal., and Abigal Zuu-dej Zuu-dej of WUlard. Utah; by a son. OrF - i P Brown of Burley, Idaho, and t.. daughters. Mrs Henry T. Snvder Ol Westgate Cal , and Mrs. Cynthia Layton of Thatcher, Ariz., and by 32 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.