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Show Funeral Is Held For Robert Biain In Spring City Funeral services for R chert Eiatn, a pifieer nur chant of Spi'.ng city veie held Friday afternoon in the '.' a I'd chapel. Pi iyi.-i? wo.e ol'le d 1 Marin U3 Mortenaen and Clairea Scl-.o-f'eld. Special mu- ic was furnished l v the ward chio-r; Kenneth Wil'.ianis s.tng a solo and Mrs. Jessie Scho-l Scho-l field and Miss Jean Baxter sang a ; ilcrt. The speakers were John R. Laxter, Sr., Joseph G. Schofield and I; shop Allied. The grave was cled-'i-.ued by Birhop Jo-s-eph Batgnall of L'htstci.-. ' Mr. Blain was -born in Carlisle, ' Cumberland County, England, Aug. '-7, 1&4S. the son of John and lsa-! lsa-! bc!l- O ith.ii n Blain. After' his lather's death he came with his mother to Utah and they were a-: a-: ruone : he l ist :ei tiers in Spring City 'in 1?C2. lie vas an active factor in ! tin upbuilding of this -community ar.d i ,,aa one ol' the first merchants in tins liity. He was a Black Hawk India i -'war veteran., He served as a school in, ;t'e for mare than twenty yeas i.-.ud fuM'iilled two missiotins for the L. ii S.. Church to England in 183-t'4 - He v-.as ir.arried in the old en-: en-: I'.ov.nicnt house in Salt Lake in 1869 j to Jane Slack who died in 1871, ileaviug one son John S. Blain. In , I'ill he was .married by A. post I s 'f'r-'on Hyde, to Melissa Barney of oprin-r; City. Surviving h''m aire seven sons, John ?,. Clerk of the North Sanpete b-iard ! of education. Henry, Raymond Mel-'v-ii, Earl, ( Ijyd, and Grovei- lilain jail of Spring city |