| Show morgan barton arton dies As car plunges over bank san sain juan county has 2nd and auto fatality within one week morgan A barton 67 was killed kille d sunday in athe second tr afflic fa bality within a week in san juan 7 county the pickup truck mr barton was driving kletthe left let athe the road near the shearing s between the unction junction and la lasall sal and plunged into coyote wash with its load of milk being trans ported to the dairy in monticello mr barton died instantly from fro m a fractured fractured skull his watch which was found some distance fro from m the pody body had stopped 7 at and the accident was not discovered discover ld until til after ten a m 4 bishop K X S summers wilford frost and mn don barton nephew of the accident victim vi caim were going to lasal passing this sc scene paric of them the accident don dan barton happened to glance back through the rear win L i dow and caught sight fit the truck overturned in the walsh it had not been visible before his first i impression was that it was a dis carded bit of junk but thinking perhaps that there had been ans accident they turned back to in vesti gate As soon as they discovered the tragedy one of their party drove on into lasal and telephoned back to monticello what caused the accident acci dant is not known it is possible that the daiv er dozed at the wheel or that he was seized with a coughing spell which he was subject to as an asthma sufferer the road aa re bently been graded and it is poss ible that he lost control of the wheel when he encountered a soft shoulders shoulder but the tracks indica indicated indicate tet 2 that the car first entered the drain ditch on the drivers side of the road and lateer crossed the road to plunge down the 20 foot embankment into the bottom of the wash the body was thrown J quite a distance from the car the i truck was very badly demolished morgan barton was born bom in bluff august 28 1883 the son of of joseph franklin and harriot harriet ann richards barton As a young man he moved to verdure with his family residing there and inmon cicello until 1936 when he moved to salt lake he had served two missions for the L D S church in the southern states and had attended the BYU at provo he was wag married to rhae meacham of vernal april 24 1817 1917 mrs bar ton died in 1932 mr barton is survived b by Y an adopted daughter mrs mary bailey of anaconda montana three grandchildren and a step mother mrs jennie barton of bluff also surviving are two brothers joseph F barton of blanding and karl kari S barton of monticello four sisters mrs le ray koy wood of monticello mrs F B hammond of price mrs mary alary larsen and mrs josephine young of salt lake laka city funeral services were conducted in the monticello ward by bishop K X S summers wednesday buriel was in monticello |
