| Show JOHN M BLACK HANDING 4 MILL fa PASSES john M black 76 diel at the home of of tits his daugh daughter tr mrs martha allan wednesday april 19 of disabilities a incident to old age follows following n g a long ing illness 1 l t ile he was born at nepal utah noyem november 27 1856 when he was a small boy oy he moved with his parents to dexle in southern bouthern utah where he spent hla his early life when he was nineteen he worked in the washington factory clory fa tie ie was married to theresa elnora cox in the st george temple in february breary 1877 they made their home in n orderville derville Or utah and three years later he married harriet at spencer ile moved to salina utah in 1881 where lere he built and ran a sawmill later bater he moved to gunnison Gunn lson where he ai 0 built and operated his first hour flour mill A year later he took his first wife and her six children and moved to fi pring ville Ail zona he received em cm klyment as a rattler miller by D K udall 10 la Is now president of the mesa city temple mr black remained in 1161 arizona tor for about eight years during alch aich time he helped to install tour four her mills at st johns idesa ilesa city and taylor ile he moved from arizona to fruit land new mexico in 1897 here he and his brother william willia ni black built liblit another gristmill he made his fiam home in fil fruita 4 ind until 1911 during this in e time ilme it in aaa new mex old mexico Al exico cortez and mancos colorado and monticello utah installing stalling fri and running grist mills lie ile came to Dl anding in 1911 where wl 1 eo he and his sons built th eWhite al mesa ean ml mill I 1 1 and where he has since resided five of his sons have taken up milling as a trade trade viz chester A john edison ether and owen j ills ilia wife harriet died feb 11 1926 and his wife thressa died july 29 of the same year since art t time mr ablack children clack has made his home with his j 1 ile he waa w a s tie the father of nineteen chil adren thirteen of whom are now living and were all in attendance at the I 1 funeral ile ho leaves seventy eight grand children and thirty great grand children the following children survive mrs lots wright of blanding john M dlack black jr of kortland now new mexico mrs martha J allan henry black edison dlack black blanding chester black monticello hatty norton of hamond new mexico ether black dayfield colorado mrs airs millie steiner St elner cedar city utah ella thurland kirtland now mexico paul dlack black mrs airs pauline smith and owen dlack black of adlar 1 ding also the following hali half brothers brother s and sisters B D p P and morley dlack black mrs airs mary B carroll mrs myrtle palmer mrs afro eva palmer mrs afro hattie guymon mrs D A johnson all of blanding mrs sara young idaho mrs amy carroll Salt Late Lake william G black richfield utah joe black idaho miller black huntington utah and orson black of california funeral services were hold held at at 3 p D m fi friday fiday day arlt april 21 the ap speakers were his brother den ben D black james F carroll and albert it lyman they spoke very highly of hla his character related in clients in his life that has ha made him the successful respected m man an that he has been mrs josephine baylee gave a solo interment took place blice in the city cemetery many beautiful floral offerings offering showed the respect and esteem that mr air black had in the of hla his many and associates several seral attended from monticello as aa wall well as aa a large frow front blanding |