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Show Young Mother Calledby Death Mrs. Sarah Jane Mower Cragun, 32, wife of Edmund M. Cragun, died Monday, August 17, She was born November 16, 1903 at Fairview, Sanpete county, Utah, the youngest of ten children of Henry Hen-ry Mower and Sarah Jane Brady Tucker. Her father had nine children by a previous marriage, making her also al-so the youngest of 19 children. At the time of her birth her family were quarantined with scarlet fever. Her mother died of it when she was two weeks old, leaving eight children chil-dren under 12 years of age. When Jane was six months old her father, feeling he needed someone some-one to mother his little family, married mar-ried his brother's widow, Frances Richards Mower, who had been a very close friend of his wife. She was a wonderful mother to Jane and was loved by her as though she were her own mother. She received her eduoation in the public schools of Fairview. At the age of 16 she came here to live at the home of Edmund Cragun, where she met Edmund M. Cragun, whom she married three years later in the Salt Lake temple. For some time after her marriage she was a teacher in Primary. She was also one of the table committee commit-tee for the old folks parties. She had to give up her public work on account of 01 health much to her sorrow. She is the mother of four children. chil-dren. Her eldest son, Darwin Edmund, Ed-mund, died at the age of two. Her infant daughter, Sarah Jane, bom August 15th, also died August 17th, just six hours before she was called to the Great Beyond. Besides her husband she is survived sur-vived by two children, Henry Dor-lynn, Dor-lynn, 6, and Nyla Mae, 2; her parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mower, now of Provo, and the following brothers and sisters: Heber, Orson, Ray and Mrs. Clymenia Smith of Fairview; Mrs. May Harris and George Tucker of Provo, Mrs. Orba Snelley of Clear Creek, Mrs. Hattie Holliman of Castle Gate, Mrs. Beatrice Beat-rice Twilling, Mrs. Verda Hales, Mrs. Merle Burnside and Mrs. Alice Fletcher, Sacramento, California, and Lafayette Mower of Superior, Montana. Funeral services will be held Friday Fri-day (to-day) in the Windsor ward chapel at 1:30 p. m. |