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Show PIONEER OF '47 DIED ATKOLDEN Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, age 8 0 ! .ears, being one of the early pioneer ilad.es of 1S4T, die, I Tuesday night I at her home it I llolden, I'lah, ufle ' 'ti illness of about one month. Mrs s;eeas was the oldest child of Bishop Bish-op Seely. She is survived by her husband. Will. Steens, and seven h'ldren, George Stevens, Koy Stev-Mis Stev-Mis Orson Steeus, Moroni Stevens Mrs. Epzabeth Johnson, Mrs. llettii Tepeles and Mrs. Ella Johnson, all of v horn live at llolden. She has three sisters, Mrs. Oscar Harton and Mrs. Emly Aeiotls of Mt. I'leasunt. Mrs. Luc'.nda Jeffs of Castledale, and ;o brothers, Moroni Seely of Sterl-'nit. Sterl-'nit. Alberta. Canada and Joseph N. Seely of Chester. Idaho. There ure two half-brothers, Jess Seely und , V:n. Seely of this city. Funeral services will bp held to-! to-! morrow at 2 o'clock at Holden. Mrs. I Oscar Barton and her son, J. C. Rar-: Rar-: ton evpeel to attend also John H. Seely. Mrs. Stevens passed through the trials and hardships of the first companies com-panies of pioneers and In the early days of Salt Lake City she gathered I thistles and wild ontn8 to help feed her brothers and sister. She was one ' of those noble women who braved j the future In those early days with courage w hich is difficult for us to comprehend in these days of prosperity. pros-perity. Mrs. Stevens was one of the very-few very-few pioneers of 1S4? who have been j with us during 1916. |