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Show THOMAS HHB DUD Pounder or ('iccii Hlvcr I'iihko. At the Home nf u ho n In Oregon, Thomas I'm re r, well known pioneer pio-neer nnd rounder or the town or Green Hlver, died nt tho home or Pred I'arrer at Orant Pass, Oro, recently. In was DC )ear old at the time or death Mr I'arrer will be remembered remem-bered by many of tho older resident nt this suction who will learn with deep ngret of his passing, mi) Mcmb'a Time or last Week. Thomas I'arrer I was a native or I'ngland, He eml-i grated to the Culled Htates and lived lit Utah since I8CK. He Is survived by1 four sons, J. T Levi, Pred and II. C. Parrer, and two daughters. Mm. An-nle An-nle Topllif or Wallaie, Ida., and Mrs. II. K, Dahllng of Or con Hlver. Dcceustd was. the first settler on the (Ireen river, moving there with his family In 187. All of them lived there up to 1906, engaged In stock-raising stock-raising and built the first canal on tho' river. Tim tow n was first culled i Illakn and was changed to (Irien Hlver after the completion of tho rull-j road. His sons carried the mall from I Hallnu to Im Hal The mall line vvaal thin a pony express, and the hard ship endured In those da) a to get the mall through will be remembered by nil obi settlers There wn nothing but willows In fet.d tin horse nt (Ireen Hlver and Carter made a trip to Monb to get wmte grass liny At Hint time occurred occur-red the Indian trouble In whlitl two Wilson Ihim were killed nnd Joe Wilson Wil-son wa shot through the race nnd root The liny wns worth eighty dollar dol-lar a ton nt (Ireen Hlver. and to haul It rrom Moab was hard earned money. Win re Monh now stands wn n large sagebrush flat nt that time, but we could see a great future when the road wa son wngun could get In and out. The climate and wnler were there ns n itllli 'planted tlirln. |