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Show Nelson TrFeritbn, Early Pioneer of Utah Observes His 90th Birthday Anniversary on January Eighth Is how Pioneer Park,, and later j helped quarry and haul the stone for the Salt Lake Temple. ' On September 10, 1879. . he married mar-ried Mary Anne West of Pleasant Grove, also of early pioneer par- J Nelson T. Fenton, one of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove's oldest citizens observed his 90th birthday anniversary on January 8th. To-celebrate the event the 'family 'fam-ily met with him at his home where a delicious hot dinner was enjoyed with covers laid for: Mr. Fenton, Miss Esetle Fenton, Mr, and Mrs. Harry Richards, and Mrs. Gordon Wright. Mr. Fenton for 88 years a resident resi-dent of Pleasant Grove, was born in Salt Lake City on January 8th, 1855 to Thomas and Emma Alcroft Fenton, who came to Utah from England in 1852 as converts to the entajge. S'ne died Dec. 4, 1929, and he still lives in his home ,on the same site where he began his married mar-ried life 66 years ago, and where he is being cared for by his daugh ter Estelle Fenton, He is the father of ten children eight of whom are living. There are 34 grand children, 37 great grand-chldren and 1 great great grandchild. Seven grandsons are in the armed forces of their country. L. D. S. church, and established one of the first florist and nursery nur-sery business in Utah.' When Nelson was two years old he came with his mother to PI. Grove and has lived here since, ecept at intervals when during his childhood and young manhood, he worked in Salt Lake City. He well remembers when only a child plowing plow-ing with ox team the ground Which |