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Show Early Pioneer Answers Final Summons Ether Enos McBride, 85, a resident of this city for thirty-nine years, and -ne of Utah's early pioneers, passed away at his home here at 5:15 Thursday morning. Mr. McBride had been in failing health for several seve-ral years and two years ago became an invalid through a paralytic stroke. With the exception of a year and eight months spent with a son, William A. McBride, in View, Idaho, he has been here, having engaged in farming hi which he was very successful. suc-cessful. He returned last April to American Fork and has since been cared for by his daughter, Mrs. Jennie Jen-nie Cunningham, and his grandson and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Cunningham. Cun-ningham. The deceased was bom February 29, 1848, at Rothsay, Butteshire, Scotland, a son of Robert and Mary Howard McBride. The family had embraced the gospel in Scotland and I when Ether was a lad of eight they made the journey across the ocean J in 1856. They joined the "ill fated" I Martin Company headed by Captain Reed and commenced the journey to Utah. The privations and sufferings this band of pioneers was forced to endure before reaching their destination desti-nation would fill pages of history. Caught in the zero weather and severe storms, their food supply gone, their animals dying they suffered intensely from hunger and cold. Mr. McBride's father died while crossing the plains. They were rescued by pioneers who came back with teams from Salt Lake to assist them, and arrived in Salt Lake November 30th that year. The widow and her family fam-ily settled in North Ogden and later in Ogden Valley. Mr. McBride , taught school for years in that valley. val-ley. He married Miss Mary J. Moffett, (who was the first baby gird born in (Ogden) in the Endowment House m J Salt Lake on December 13, 1889, and to them ten children were born, four Uf whom are living. His wife died ! May 16, 1901. He married Mrs. Con-! Con-! stance A. Eggleston of Af ton, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, in the Logan temple in 1904 and 'sTif rA.KKeri awav in Julv. 1926. He filled a mission to England between be-tween 1890 and 1892. He also was called into service during the Black Hawk Indian wars. Surviving are two sons, William A. McBride, View, Idaho, Vestel McBride, Mc-Bride, Park City; two daughters, Mrs. Steta Mills of Stockton, and Mrs. Jennie Cunningham of this city, also a brother, Peter H. McBride Mc-Bride of Pina, Arizona; a sister, Mrs. Margaret Christensen of Long Beach, California, thirty-one grandchildren and thirty-nine great-grandchildren. -t- i i |
