Show local couple adopts child mark anthoney F posey six year old son of ida ann posey and calvin wells posey and a great grand son of old posey early ute indian resident of san juan county is living with mr and mrs heber frost of monticello pending adoption the youth has lived with the frosts since since last fall they have been acquainted with him since his mother and step father harry marshall brought him to monticello during the summer of 1951 he spent most of his time with with the frost family and in august they became so fond of him that they requested permission from his mother to adopt the young ute the necessary papers were signed and the boy is living with the frosts for one trial year as a member of the family he is attending school in monticello where he is a student in the first grade under miss jessie bradshaw during the fall he made his first trip to salt lake city with his foster parents where they bought school clothes for him and introduced him to other members of the family who live there mr and mrs frost also made made a special trip to the city before christmas so that mark could see the wonders of christmas in the city young marks great grand father old posey was b born orn late in the he developed a reputation as being a bold horse thief at a trial for the crime early in the he was bound over to the district court but escaped from jail and hid for nearly 10 years in the lake country north of the navajo mountains his birth place cherl n he 1 ta was sought by a U S marshall arsh ar a 11 posey gathered a following and when tried a s second e time they were all abuit ted he was the leader of an uprising on blanding in march 1923 at which time he was killed in a shooting fray with a posse of white men ile he is buried lea in in a canyon in in the blanding vicinity this story was originally written by mrs frank halls who obtained the information about old posey from albert R lyman of blanding |