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Show Fairview Pioneer Passes Away At Age of 95 Years Mrs. Tranquilla Ann, Brady Me vens Jordan, one of the few crossed'"!' U,U S- Plms "ho uossed uie plains to Utah in the w nVCi,rS oi lhe church's west-waid west-waid migration, died Friday at a m. at the home of a daughter, Mrs. S. M. Brewer in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Jordan, 95 yeais old, had been in failing ueaUvi ior several months. A luelong member of the L. D churea and ior many years active in its Relief Society and in the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Pio-neers, Mrs. Jordan often recalled many experiences in the early uays oi "the land of Deseret" now Utah. She was born in Nau-voo, Nau-voo, Illinois, tnen headquarters oi tne L. D. S. church, on January Janu-ary , I84tj, a daughter of Lind--ey a. and Elizabeth Ann Hend-ricKson Hend-ricKson Brady. Four years later Uie lamily came to Utah, settling urst in 'A-hat is now Union, Salt Lake county, and moving in November, No-vember, 18o9, to Mt. Pleasant and the following year to Fair-view. Fair-view. When Mrs. Brady was a child in Union, the cojnmunity was -ailed Bradyville, because, as she -aid, "tnere were so many of us Bradys there." Members of her .amny were among the first set-uers set-uers of Fairview. Mrs. Jordan lived in Fairview for 7a years, then went to Salt Lake City to live with a daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. Brewer. She was married to Ransom A. Stevens, February 17, 1863, in the old Salt Lake Endowment house, and after his death was married to his half brother, Jus-las Jus-las Jordan, June 29, 1921. Mr. Jordan died in 1937. She was the mother of 12 sons and daughters of whom seven survive: Linsey A. Stevens of Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs. E. T. Pe-aerson Pe-aerson of Wendeil, Idaho; Mrs. Lois Ann Farmer of Fairview; Mrs. T. A. Triplett of McKinnon, Wyoming; Mrs. Perry Stevens of Draper; Mrs. Rhoda M. Briggs of Santa Cruz, Cal., and Mrs. Brewer. Brew-er. Also surviving her are 97 grandchildren, 153 great-grandchildren and 30 great-greatgrandchildren. Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed Sunday at 3 p. jn. at 1445 South State street in Salt Lake. A second sec-ond funeral services was held in Fairview Monday at 2 p. m. Burial was in Fairview cemetery. |