Show moroni shirts shirks dies here tuesday a at t daughters home moroni shirts 74 an indian war veteran and pioneer of escalante passed away here tuesday morning at the home of his daughter mrs elizabeth ann lay death resulting from a lingering illness with bladder trouble the body was taken to escalante wednesday morning and services services will be held this afternoon in the escalante south ward interment will be in the escalante cemetery moroni shirts was born december 23 1857 at old harmony washington county utah a son of darius and margaret haslam shirts he attended the public schools there and as a young man served as a guard during the black hawk indian war when he was 21 years of age he be moved with his parents to escalante and there met and married sarah ann gates they made escalante their home with the exception of two years when they were cal called I 1 ed t to b teasdale to help settle that locality mr shirts was a prominent far farmer merand and stock raiser at escalante surviving are the widow and the following sons and daughters mrs elizabeth ann lay richfield mrs jane mitchell shelley idaho wm win moroni shirts address unknown mrs margaret mitchell escalante mrs sarah may alvey escalante ersel shirts kelso washington mrs meleta cottam escalante morris shirts escalante surviving also are 52 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren |