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Show Pioneer; Resident" Calleil by Death. Tuesday Mrs. Enriljr Kelly Koepperneck Adamson. 8&, for over seventy years a resident. qX American Fork, and ' one of the estsemed pioneers who snduredctlte struggles of these early liays faithfully and uncqnipiaining--V, passed: away at her. -home here at 8 p.;.nu. Tuesday following a lingering ling-ering ;il!l&ss. Mrs;;. Adamson was own May 1, 1845, aft Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire; Hereford-shire; England, the founh child of John- Phillips and Elizai Long Kelly. Wheir she was thirteen years of age she- went to live witjfr her aunty, sister, and remained- there three: years. It was during this time her parents joined the- Mormon churcit an1 on her way - home to see hjr parents she heard of their conversion. conver-sion. Having heard such terijble things of the Mormons she was afraid to go home and stopped; off to visit an old- lady, who- also- had joined the church and talked' to her of it. She then- went on- home and heard the gospel preached,; by the missionaries- in her father's home and became- converted. She was baptized with an older- sister in 1861, and to have the ordinance performed? per-formed? they walked a mile to a secluded- brook- where- fehe ice had to be broken. . i The Kelly family consisting oi ' ' the parents and: five children left their home May 1, 1862, bound $oi Utah. Thev were on the water- sb weeks and three days and landed1 at eastle Gardens, N. Y., where- they took a train. At Council Bluffs, a traveling outfit consisting of a wagon, two yoke of oxen and a cow was purchased and the trek over the plains commenced. It was the year of high water and the Indians were on the war path. They were on the plaina ten weeks arriving in Salt Lake City September 27, 1862. They stayed in Salt Lake three days- and then came and settled in American. Fork. j Mrs. Adamson, then a girl of 17, , went to live with James and Sarah Greene Chipman. During this time she met Robert Koeperneck whomj she married November. 6, 1862, in the Salt Lake Endowment House. They lived here until the spring of 1869 then moved to Ogden , three years later returning to American Fork. For nine months they operated oper-ated a boarding house at the Point of the mountain during the building of the Utah Central Railway after which they again returned to American Amer-ican Fork. For about twenty years they operated the boarding house known as "Koeperneck House" which was located where the R. J. Stice residence now stands. In connection connec-tion Mr. Koeperneck also operated a livery stable for some years and a small store. The deceased joined the first Relief Re-lief Society organized here with Mary Hindley president, was a teacher in the first Sunday school organized, with William Paxman as superintendent, and also taught in the early Primary Association. For nearly twenty one years she was in charge of the sewing of the Second ward Relief Society. Mr. Koeperneck died April 5, 1893, after an illness of ten years of in- flamatory rheumatism. On July 17, I 1894, she married Peter Adamson, jwho died March 21, 1921. She had j one child by her first marriage, ! which died at the age of ten days. !Soon after its death she adopted a ! baby, Catherine E. Fisher, whom she reared to the age of fifteen when . the child died of diptheria. Mrs. ; Adamson gave a mother's care and 'devotion to three step-sons, sons of 'Mr. Adamson's second wife, Sai'ah !Birk, by a former marriage. These ! three were Waller, Albert and Otto 1 Birk. Surviving are the following step- children: Mrs. Thomas Thornton, 1 Idaho Falls, Idaho; Mrs. P. H. Don-'ahue, Don-'ahue, Salt Lake City; Mrs. B. L. j KiUingsworth, Whittier, California; !Mrs. L. E. Lott, Lehi; Mrs. J. E. ! Greene, American Fork; Arthur C. Birk, Tekoa, Washington; Otto ' Birk, Provo; Mrs. Violet Gardner. 'Salt Lake City; Louis and Albert . Birk, American Fork, j. Surviving also are the following I half-brothers and sisters: George I Kelly, John Kelly and Mrs. Martha ' Crookston, Shelley. Idaho; Mrs. iHeber Harrington, Salt Lake City; , and a number of nieces and n?ph-1 n?ph-1 cws. among them Miss Emily Brown of Kanab, who spent the most of the past ten years here with her aunt. i Funeral services will be conducted : Saturday. June 30th. at 2 - o'clock j p. m. in the Second ward chapel. Friends may call at t-hs residence Saturday from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. Interment will be made in the city cemetery. I o |