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Show FAMOUS PIONEER PASSES AWAY Sumuel Fletcher, the man who dug tho first nhovel full of earth for the excavations on the famous Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake, and who was a member of IJrigham Young's body-guard. haing crossed tbe plains In 1S59 in an ox team, died yesterday afternoon at tbe Ogden General hospital, hos-pital, aged 71, of dropsy. Mr Fletcher, who was born In Cumberland, Cum-berland, near Marysport. England, on May 5, 1839, was tho son of Adam and Anne Clark Fletcher. When only 13 years of age he came to America, Joined the Mormon church February 2, 1S39, and on September 29, the same year, arrived In Salt Lake over the tortuous trails with an ox team. During the period of tbe Black Hawk war, Mr. Fletcher sened as a private, acquitting himself nobly. He moved from Salt Lake to Coalville when that district was opened and was one of the pioneers of lhat section of the I ttate. He tpened up the Grass Creek mines for the Mormon church, and In 1SS7 moved to Rock Springs, Wjo., where he lived until 1901, when he moed to Kauesvlll' Weber county. For a number of years Mr. Fletcher was president of the Fifty-ninth Quorum of Seventies. In all, he had 15 children, of whom nine sons survive, along with 16 grandchildren. The remains have been removed to the undertaking parlors of Larkln & Sons, from wher they will be takn to Coalville for burial. While definite arrangements have not as yet been marie, it is probable that the funeral fu-neral will be held on Sunday. |