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Show BOOTH OGDEN DEATHS NORTH OGDEN, Dec. 24. Mrs, Minerva Mi-nerva Hickman, 90 years old, and Thomns Isaac Brown, in the prime nnd vigor of young mnnhood, died yesterday, yester-day, the first of old age and general debility, the other of pneumonia folio-wing a severe case af Spanish influenza, Minerva Hickman was a daughter of Moses Wade and Sally Bundy, her ancestry, an-cestry, the Wades, Bundys and Thay-ers Thay-ers of English Puritanic descent, coming com-ing over at n very early date and participating par-ticipating in the war of the revolution, Isaac Thayer serving under General George Washington, Her father, Moses Wade, and one brother, Edward Wade, were members of the far-famed Mormon battalion and did valiant service serv-ice in that cause. She was born in Farmersville, Cata-raugus Cata-raugus county, Nejv York, and was 90 years, 3 months and 21 days old at the time of her death. She was baptised when years old by Elder Kellogg from Kirtland and three years later left with the family for Illinois and located lo-cated on a farm in Hancock county, but, through persecutions Ihe Saints at that time, was forced to make other moves. She was near enough to hear the shots at the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hy-um Hy-um the saddest experience of her ife for she sat under the sound of his prophetic utterances and had learned .o love him. In the spring of 1S-16, the amily moved on to 'Council Bluffs, vhnrn hur mntViop rMarl in ioo "".u 111 iOlO, II CI father nnd one brother then being in , the Mormon battalion. She came on to ' Salt Lake City and became the wife of William A. Hickman, famed in early church history as "Bill" Hickman, a staunch and some times an unwise defender de-fender of the Prophet Joseph. She also lived at West Jordan. Rush Valley, and Little Cottonwood, finally coming to North Ogden. where she has resided for a great number of years as a defender de-fender of the religion she espoused when so young and at such a trying time in the history of the church, and died honored and respected by all for her sterling -worth and integrily, hav ing iiu a iounaauon tor a very numerous numer-ous posterity. She was the mother of eight children: William A., born at Salt Lake City, February 14. 1S50, and died in 1S54; Sarah M born September Septem-ber 15, 1851, at West Jordan, married William Francis at Salt Lake City; Moses Edward, born August S, 1853, at West Jordan, and died October 12, 1855; Minerva L., born January 12, 1S56, at Rush Valley, married Jesse Vandehoof; Margaret R born March 13. 1S58, at West Jordan, married Richard Rich-ard Driscol at North Ogden, and died at Pocatello, Idaho, May 20, 1911 ; Survivor, Sur-vivor, born May 22, 1SG0, at West Jordan, Jor-dan, married Agnes Waddle at McCam-mon, McCam-mon, Idaho; Warren W born August 31, 1S62, at West Jordan, married Barbara Bar-bara Woodland; Mary Ellen, born at Little Cottonwood, September 2S, 1865, married Frederick J. Kohlepp Thomas Isaac Brown, a prominent member of the L. D. S. church and for several years a carrier in the mail service, died at his home in North Oj,-den, Oj,-den, following an attack of influenza-pneumonia, influenza-pneumonia, Monday. November, 1911, Mr. Brown, who had been ordained an elder in the Mormon church, left for a mission to the eastern eas-tern states where he remained until December, 1913. He was born at North Ogden, July 4, 1891, and resided in this community where he had made innumerable friends up until the time of tiis death. The deceased is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Brown, his wife and a daughter six months old. Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been completed, but interment will be In the North Ogden cemetery. |