Show GONAH LOSES ANOTHER OF HER ESTEEMED cims CITIZENS john baker To Top liani 75 life long resident of 0 paragonah Para gonah passed away at the family residence on oil wednesday morning at 2 a m ua as the third ut of that aged and esteemed citizens to be called withful two weeks death resulted from dropsy from which aich mr has been suffering buffering for or several weeks during tho the latter of which the ultimate outcome has been apparent kuri eral service was held on thurs day afternoon etli with bishop doyle robinson in fit charge speakers were george win P barton ernest horsly horsley thomas W jones and bishop robinson nna nina lang lead a brief history of the decease eds life with resolutions of respect and from the daughters of tile the pioneers silas player a violin solo and a quartet from parowan Ia rowan consisting of L J adams ray kay D garner wm M dalton and L nelson marsden sang two numbers um the choir sang 0 my father 1 I know lly itly heavenly father knows and though deepening trials under the direction of J lowe barton thomas robinson offered the opening prayer and richard N lund the cloning one at the cemetery the choir sang god be with you till we meet again and amenzo dedicated the grave the deceased was born january 1856 the son of john and betsy baker and the first male child born in the paragonah Para gonah tort fort his parents were both pioneers to salt lake city in 1847 he walked back and forth to parowan carowan to attend school as a child and milked a number of cows as a pait of his chores night and morning when lie he was only thirteen years old he stood guard at night taking his turn along with the men during the indian troubles ile he was married on oil april 19 1817 18 7 to lo mary jane barton and to them eight children were born four of whom wheat survive besides their own children they reared from infancy reuben Me Bilde a nephew As a young man mail he be was called with others to colonize in san juan county and the brief period spent there marked liis ills only absence of any duration front from his birthplace ills sur fixing children are john B jr jesse AV asa and mrs clara robb surviving him also ate aie his brothers br othera george and joseph R a sister rister susanna robinson sixteen grandchild tell and a number of other relatives though he was not particularly active iu fit public affairs he was known as aa an industrious thrifty citizen and one first to give assistance in fit case of sickness or distress the times joins the friends ot 01 tile the faintly in ui itu expression of sympathy to the bear ones |