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Show HAYDON CM PASSES Myton Frco Press Ohronlolcs Death of Pioneer. ITnMlon Cnhcrt died nt Ins home in Old Town jesUulny tnoinint. For dnjs his family ami fnemU bnc known that the end was near, but his death never the less wng n shock, ami toln while he slee plseidly and Hnsefull in the front room there is n psll of gloom ocr the community. We, all over this Uintah lltisiii anil those Imck in Indiana ami Kentuek) who admired and loved him will shed tears of regret that he is gone, but at the same time we will do those tears when wc recall that ho rounded out n beautiful life nnd is bettor off toda than he wns yeslerdnj. Tor thirty-fhc jean Harden Calvert Cal-vert has been in this country, lie has healed build it up. Never did he reject re-ject a legilimslo proposition or forsake for-sake n worthy cause. Xo human who ever asked him for aid went nwn einpt handeil. Men and women, especially tlioso who suffered the hardships nnd adversities which followed fol-lowed the opening of the Indian reservation, res-ervation, will always have reasons to remember him as n benefactor mid n friend in need. Many an oldtimcr would have gtmo broke hut for his financial assistance. It was in 189G that Calvert and family came to this retenntion nnd taught the Indian trading post nl White Iloeks from A. M. Murdoek. nnd for seventeen .eara he did n successful suc-cessful business. From White ltocks tho family moved to Deip Creek where they lived on n ranch for n ear and then went to Vernal for a -.car ot so nnd conducted a hotel. In 1001 I hey moved to Mvton, which was tit that time better known as Duchesne llridgf, Hera he Imiight an Indian trading HMt from II 0. Clarko and soon afterwards assumed the ot-mastership, ot-mastership, widen ixullion he held until forced out by the nge limit. Alraut 1003 It. I'.. Waugli came tip d' hi Oiirav ami i'ie orgmiixod the firm of Calvert S. Waugli. A few enrs ago he turned over ol.c half of iiis interest to his son Morgan and the other half he sold to II. C. War-1, mid virtually retired from business, hut habit wns so strong that lie had n hard time giving up the work nnd ninny customers has lie waited on. Miwtv, many times has ho helped in tho pogtofffco just because it came natural. Xot only was Calvert first jwsl-miistcr jwsl-miistcr hut ho was first president of tho Myton Stnto bank which ho helped help-ed to organize. Until yesterday morning morn-ing when he passed nwny ho was n director di-rector in that institution. Ho wns ono of tho first stockholders In tho Uintah Power nnd Light company and for n number of years was n director. When Mjtou wns inroniornted in 1011 ho was elected president of tho board of trustees and he served tho peoplo well. lu Itising Sun, Indinnn, J In dm Calvert was Irani Xov ember iM. 18-10, and would hnvo beui 60 years tho day before next Thanksgiving. When 20 oiirs old ho married Miss Virgiuin Yolton, of Duller, Ky. That union was blessed with threo children, all of whom nro today surviving, ns follows: Ini Culvert, Huh!, Ida.; Mrs. II. 0. Clarke, Salt Lnko City; Cecil Calvert, Hnlt Lnko City. For n number of jenrs nt Duller Cnlvcrt was n tekgrnph operator. In Ftbniarj'i 1877 Mrs. Culvert died nt Itising Suu nnd soon nfter Hint ho Indited In-dited in Junction City, Ky.. where lie noted ns passenger mid freight ngint for the Louisville nnd Xnidivillo mid tho Queen nnd Crosient rnilronds. June II, 18S0 he married Mi si Stilliu Morgan of Hnrrodshurg, K. The widow mid lite following ihildren survive: Mrs. Lee Coopoi, Midvivw, (leorge Calvert, Watson; Morgan and Jiuk Calvert, Mjton. 'Hie funeral will he publio and will he held in the l'resb.vterinu ehurch tomorrow U.30 in the nlteruoon. Though not n member of nn church deeettked whs deejily religious and wns a riigulnr (huuh goer until olil ne brought on defective hearing. He was a liberal contributor to the ihunli n well ns n church goer. He was brought up in the Unituniin ehuHi mid finding find-ing none here when he emtio hu joined join-ed no other. Ho wns n Dihle studeut lu inet lie might he willed u Dihle scholar. From wiver to cover he has jead that holy hook many times. In his vest (locket was iound little book I wntteu full of tmotntlomi from the Dihle He wm n lender of iiiuuh high class htorntiire both old and new mid wns familiar!) oonvorsuut on leading topics of the dii). 'Hie following words onea used li) Col. Hubert O. Ingersol, famous orator, ora-tor, when a fiiuud of his died, nm well be used now j "If lie should lie ptesentwl with n boumiet for ever) gtwid deed he has done he would tod) be sleeping uudei mountain of flowers." flow-ers." 11. M. Jones, an intimatu friend lot .vtmrs, has oftered this quotation Iron! an author whose niiiiie lie does not now lecull: "He gained no title, lie broke no juomlse, lie lost no frwml." Mjtou Free Piuss, Oct. UStli. |