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Show Services Held In Bountiful For loka Pioneer Funeral services were held in Bountiful. Wednesday for Mrs. Agnes Taylor Marchant, 75, loka, pioneer Utah musician and church worker who died Saturday at the home of a daughter in Ephraim. Mrs. Marchant, widow of a pioneer Basin school teacher,, Robert Ro-bert H. C. Marchant, was buried in Salt Lake City after services in Bountiful conducted by the loka ward bishopric, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mrs. Marchant was born April 29, 1881 in Salt Lake City to William Whittaker and Sarah Hoaghland Taylor. Her father died when she was four and her mother moth-er when Mrs. Marchant was 15. She went to live with her grandmother, grand-mother, Mrs. Agnes Taylor Swartz, in Randolph, Utah. There she worked in the post office until moving to Logan to live with a sister, Harriett Parkinson. She later returned to Salt Lake City to live with her Aunt Mary and Uncle Joseph F. Smith. In Salt Lake City, she studied music and was organist in the Salt Lake Temple for 12 years. Married In 1910 In 1910, she was married in the temple to Mr. Marchant, who had served wo and i one-half years on '(Continued on Back Page) AGNUS TAYLOR MARCHANT (Continued from page one) a mission to Australia. They came to Roosevelt, wheTe he taught in the elementary school. From Roosevelt, Roos-evelt, they moved to Mountain Home, Upalco and Bluebell, teaching teach-ing in each community. Their first child, now Mrs. Lydia Sorenson, was born in Roosevelt. Mrs. Emily T. Wilkerson was born in Bluebell; Mrs. Ruth Lowry and Mrs. Linnie Findlay, in Ioka. A sister, Mrs. Sarah South, and a half-sister, Mrs. Zella Kimball, also survive. Mrs. Marchant continued active in the church and served in many ways in the community in time of illness and trouble. She was a favorite of children, and many referred re-ferred to her as "The Little Dove." |
