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Show Respected Citizen Paid Final Respects After an illness of but a few clays, James II. Pulley, 78, respected church worker and architect of this city succumbed to pneumonia and heart complications at his home at 8;30 p. m. Wednesday, November 28th. Mr. Pulley but the Friday night preceding his death was out ward teaching on his district, although al-though not feeling too well. By Sunday Sun-day his illness was definitely pronounced pro-nounced pneumonia and everything that medical skill and kind hands could do was done to spare his life. James Henry Pulley was born in : Nebraska City, Nebraska, September 15, 1856, a son of Joseph and Hannah Han-nah Augusta Chadney Pulley. The family had embraced the Latter-day Saint faith and had a desire to come to Utah. The father, who helped build the Nauvoo temple, died in 1859 before his wish was fulfilled and the mother and her children bent every effort to emigrate west. Mr. Pulley, at very meager wages, saved enough to help himself as did the others and they came in 1873, settling in American Ameri-can Fork. Three years later the mother died. In 1879 Mr. Pulley was married to Miss Alice M. Thornton, daughter of Thomas and Priscilla Covington Thornton, in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. With the exception ex-ception of two years spent in Burley, Idaho, the Pulleys have resided in American Fork. Mr. Pulley's father was a builder and he and another brother, Joseph, followed their father in this trade. A number of prominient buildings not only in this city but elsewhere in the county were designed and erected under his supervision. Among these he supervised the building of the stake tabernacle, drew up the plans for three of the four ward L. D. S. chapels, the First, the Second and the Fourth, supervised the building build-ing of the city hall and the Orem depot of Provo, and others, besides a number of private dwellings. Mr. Pulley was a faithful Latter-day Latter-day Saint, and took an active part in church duties. He was high priest leader in the Fourth ward at the time of his death, was for years a ward teacher, and for thirty years was a worker in the Sunday School organization, besides being a faithful attender at other meetings. Surviving are his widow, and five daughters, Mrs. Stella Randolph and Mrs. Olive Marshall of Salt Lake; Mrs. Cora Birk, Mrs. Hazel Cunningham Cunning-ham and Mrs. Ferl Hunter of this city. Two sons and a daughter preceded pre-ceded their father in death. Surviving Surviv-ing also are a brother, William Pulley Pul-ley of Salt Lake and a sister, Mrs, Fannie Mercer of this city, also sixteen six-teen grandchildren and five great-grand great-grand children. The funeral services were held in the Alpine stake tabernacle Sunday at 1:00 p. m. where many relatives and friends gathered to pay their last respects to this well known citizen. citi-zen. There was a profusion of floral offerings banking the rostrum. Bishop Lot Robinson was in charge. The services opened with a quartet comprised of Mrs. Detta Fay Taylor, Mrs. Lyle N. Grant, Jolm Webb and Kenneth Robinson, accompanied by Ann C. Hansen, singing "O My Father". Fath-er". Henry E. McNeill offered the invocation. A sketch of Mr. Pulley's life was given by a granddaughter, Nan Randolph Ran-dolph Ayers of Salt Lake City, after which a vocal duet "Truth Reflects Upon Our Senses" was rendered by Mrs. Ora Chipman and Moral D. Steele, with Mrs. Hansen as accompanist. accom-panist. The speakers for the occasion who praised the life and accomplishments of Mr. Pulley, both in a civic and ecclesiastical way, were Stephen L. Chipman and Earl S. Greenwood.' Bishop Robinson spoke briefly at the close. Additional musical numbers were a violin solo, "On Life's Highway" played by Miss Ann Clayson, accompanied accom-panied by Miss Naomi Halliday, a vocal duet by Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Hansen of Price; and a solo "Going Home" by Mrs. La Rue Morton, accompanied ac-companied by Mrs. Hansen. James E. Peters pronounced the benediction. benedic-tion. The prayer of dedication at the graveside in the City cemetery where interment was made, was offered by James W. Thornton of Provo, a nephew. |