| Show benjamin D black passes on special correspondence uncle benjamin D black one of blan kings aings active and important citizens for the last thirty beals succumbed to the ravages of a lingering ailment sunday m mining ening alter after making a long and levonue ieso luLe tight light uncle ben was born in nephi utah july 2nd and he went willi his parents early in life to vu arville and move j t from there ath his family to huntington six tyone ty one years ago in the latter ni nineties neLies he moved again to Kitia nd N M and came with his big family to blanding in 1909 he has taken an active part in affairs civil industrial and religious has been a wise friend to everybody very body in trouble no matter who they were QT what the trouble he has given valuable s t advice in cases of sickness has lupei supervised the setting of broken bones and has been a man to whom people turn instinctively in emergencies his first wife died many years ago and he has been married twice since that time and is the father of thirty children eighteen of whom are still living and all I 1 but one of them were at the I 1 funeral which was held tuesday afternoon in the blanding tabernacle with four hundred in attendance the bady was interred in the blandino blanding cemetery the name and the memory memory of uncle ben black will continue 1 to echo in the hearts of the people 1 of Blan blanding dinu for many more years than he ha has s lived here among us |
