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Edson Barney
Death Of Edson Barney
Edson Barney, perhaps the oldest man in the state of Utah, and the oldest member of the Church, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alice M. Wilkins, in Provo, Thursday, February 2. He was born June 30, 1806, in Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York, and was the son of Royal and Rachel Barney. In his youth he removed to Loraine County, Ohio, where he married, and on the 10th of May, 1831, became a member of the Church. In 1834 he traveled to Missouri in Zion's Camp, passing through the hardships and trials of that journey, and after his return became a member of the first quorum of Seventy, having been ordained under the hands of the Prophet Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. He was always an active worker, and in the early days of the Church performed several missions and assisted in building the Kirtland Temple. He passed through the trials in Missouri and went to Nauvoo in 1840, where he took an active part in the work of the Church. In the year 1844 he campaigned in Ohio for the Prophet Joseph Smith, who at that time was a candidate for the Presidency of the United States; but hearing of the death of the Prophet, returned to Nauvoo, where he worked diligently on the Temple, in which he later was endowed. After the exodus, he moved to Farmington, Iowa, and then to Council Bluffs, where he remained for some time, arriving in Salt Lake valley in 1851. Since his arrival in Utah, most of his life has been spent in Provo until 1862, when he was called to go to St. George, to assist in the building of that settlement. Here he remained until about nine years ago, when he returned to Provo because of his advanced age, and made his home with his daughter, Sister Wilkins.
[Source: Improvement era, Volume 8, Issue 1; By Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association
Publ. 1904; Submitted and transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
Lewis Bird
LOGAN--Lewis Bird died Thursday at his home in Mendon following a paralytic stroke.
Services will be held in Mendon chapel Sunday at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Mendon cemetery.
Mr. Bird was born November 3, 1850 in Little Cottonwood canyon as his parents neared Salt Lake on the overland journey from the east. He has been an efficient farmer of this district and was noted as a wheat threshing expert.
He married Arelia Fifield of Logan in the old endowment house in 1876 and she, together with eleven of the 13 children born to the couple, survive him.
The children are: Mrs. Ella Jensen, Mrs. Sadie Hansen, and Mrs. Amy Thompson, Ogden; Mrs. Nettie Benson, Weiser, Idaho; Mrs. Ruby Van Hoesen, Chicago; Mathew S. and Henry Elliott Bird, Buist, Idaho; James Roy Bird, Sugar City, Idaho; Albert Bird, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Loren and Charlie Bird, Mendon.
Twenty-nine grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and the following sisters survive: Mrs. Reba Furniss, and Mrs. Eliza F. Gardner, Teton: Mrs. Mary Ann English and Mrs. Mariana Riggs, Logan.
Source: Daughters of Utah Pioneers Obituary Scrapbook Extracts of Utah newspaper articles about vital events
Date: June 25, 1932
Submitted and transcribed by Barb Ziegenmeyer
Lavina Blair
LEWISTON--Funeral services for Mrs. Lavina Blair, 80, wife of William M. Blair, who died Friday, will be conducted Monday at 2 p. m. in the Lewiston Third ward L. D. S. chapel, with burial in the Lewiston City cemetery.
She was born March 9, 1852, at Hooper, a daughter of Anthony and Fanny Haines. She had been a resident of Lewiston since 1871, coming here from Hooper.
Besides her husband she is survived by seven sons and daughters: Mrs. Fanny Kent and Ephraim Blair, Lewiston; Mrs. Ruth B. Allen, Mrs. Abbie B. Rawlins and Mrs. Rilla B. Williams, Pocatello, Idaho; Anthony H. Blair, Idaho Falls, Idaho; Samuel Blair, Ogden; 87 grandchildren, 42 great-grandchildren.
Source: Daughters of Utah Pioneers Obituary Scrapbook Extracts of Utah newspaper articles about vital events
Date: May 12, 1932
Submitted and transcribed by Barb Ziegenmeyer
Martin Luther Ensign
LOGAN--Martin Luther Ensign died at his home in Logan Wednesday.
Services will be held in the Brigham City Fourth ward chapel, Thursday at 2 p.m.
Mr. Ensign was born in Brigham City, Jan. 5, 1862, a son of Martin Luther and Mary Dunn Ensign. He has been a resident of Logan for the past 11 years.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Olive A. Ensign, and the following children: Mrs. Eunice E. Nelson, Sandy; Martin Russell Ensign, Gainesville, Florida; Mrs. Esta W. Sarager, Phoenix, Arizona; Mrs. Geneva W. Ensign, Sacato, Arizona; Horace D. Ensign, Clovis, California; J. C. Ensign, Tracy, California; and Milton W. Ensign, Stockton, California.
Burial will be in the Brigham City cemetery.
Source: Daughters of Utah Pioneers Obituary Scrapbook Extracts of Utah newspaper articles about vital events
Date: May 12, 1932
Submitted and transcribed by Barb Ziegenmeyer
Philip Henry Marquettes
LOGAN--Philip Henry Marquettes, 80, died of the family residence in Preston Thursday, following a lingering illness from Bright's disease.
Mr. Marquetts was the seventeenth male child born in Salt Lake City. He was born August 23, 1851.
Preston has been his home for 40 years. Surviving him are: his wife, Maria Clayton Marquettes and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Perthenia Hall of Idaho Falls, Minnie Charles, George, David and Albert of Salt Lake City.
Services will be held in the Fourth ward chapel in Preston, Sunday at 2 p.m
Source: Daughters of Utah Pioneers Obituary Scrapbook Extracts of Utah newspaper articles about vital events
Date: July 22, 1932
Submitted and transcribed by Barb Ziegenmeyer
Mary Ann Shaw
WELLSVILLE--Services for Mrs. Mary Ann Shaw, 84, of Magna were held in the tabernacle, Monday at 2 p.m., with Bishop John J. Hendry presiding. Speakers were, C. N. Maughan, Robert Brown, Heber C. Green and Bishop Hendry. Prayers were by Nephi Green and William Darley.
Special musical numbers were by Vernon Maughan, Mattie Darley and Kenneth B. Murray. Interment was in the Wellsville cemetery.
Source: Daughters of Utah Pioneers Obituary Scrapbook Extracts of Utah newspaper articles about vital events
Date: August 15, 1932
Submitted and transcribed by Barb Ziegenmeyer
Death Of Edson Barney
Edson Barney, perhaps the oldest man in the state of Utah, and the oldest member of the Church, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alice M. Wilkins, in Provo, Thursday, February 2. He was born June 30, 1806, in Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York, and was the son of Royal and Rachel Barney. In his youth he removed to Loraine County, Ohio, where he married, and on the 10th of May, 1831, became a member of the Church. In 1834 he traveled to Missouri in Zion's Camp, passing through the hardships and trials of that journey, and after his return became a member of the first quorum of Seventy, having been ordained under the hands of the Prophet Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. He was always an active worker, and in the early days of the Church performed several missions and assisted in building the Kirtland Temple. He passed through the trials in Missouri and went to Nauvoo in 1840, where he took an active part in the work of the Church. In the year 1844 he campaigned in Ohio for the Prophet Joseph Smith, who at that time was a candidate for the Presidency of the United States; but hearing of the death of the Prophet, returned to Nauvoo, where he worked diligently on the Temple, in which he later was endowed. After the exodus, he moved to Farmington, Iowa, and then to Council Bluffs, where he remained for some time, arriving in Salt Lake valley in 1851. Since his arrival in Utah, most of his life has been spent in Provo until 1862, when he was called to go to St. George, to assist in the building of that settlement. Here he remained until about nine years ago, when he returned to Provo because of his advanced age, and made his home with his daughter, Sister Wilkins.
[Source: Improvement era, Volume 8, Issue 1; By Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association
Publ. 1904; Submitted and transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
Lewis Bird
LOGAN--Lewis Bird died Thursday at his home in Mendon following a paralytic stroke.
Services will be held in Mendon chapel Sunday at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Mendon cemetery.
Mr. Bird was born November 3, 1850 in Little Cottonwood canyon as his parents neared Salt Lake on the overland journey from the east. He has been an efficient farmer of this district and was noted as a wheat threshing expert.
He married Arelia Fifield of Logan in the old endowment house in 1876 and she, together with eleven of the 13 children born to the couple, survive him.
The children are: Mrs. Ella Jensen, Mrs. Sadie Hansen, and Mrs. Amy Thompson, Ogden; Mrs. Nettie Benson, Weiser, Idaho; Mrs. Ruby Van Hoesen, Chicago; Mathew S. and Henry Elliott Bird, Buist, Idaho; James Roy Bird, Sugar City, Idaho; Albert Bird, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Loren and Charlie Bird, Mendon.
Twenty-nine grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and the following sisters survive: Mrs. Reba Furniss, and Mrs. Eliza F. Gardner, Teton: Mrs. Mary Ann English and Mrs. Mariana Riggs, Logan.
Source: Daughters of Utah Pioneers Obituary Scrapbook Extracts of Utah newspaper articles about vital events
Date: June 25, 1932
Submitted and transcribed by Barb Ziegenmeyer
Lavina Blair
LEWISTON--Funeral services for Mrs. Lavina Blair, 80, wife of William M. Blair, who died Friday, will be conducted Monday at 2 p. m. in the Lewiston Third ward L. D. S. chapel, with burial in the Lewiston City cemetery.
She was born March 9, 1852, at Hooper, a daughter of Anthony and Fanny Haines. She had been a resident of Lewiston since 1871, coming here from Hooper.
Besides her husband she is survived by seven sons and daughters: Mrs. Fanny Kent and Ephraim Blair, Lewiston; Mrs. Ruth B. Allen, Mrs. Abbie B. Rawlins and Mrs. Rilla B. Williams, Pocatello, Idaho; Anthony H. Blair, Idaho Falls, Idaho; Samuel Blair, Ogden; 87 grandchildren, 42 great-grandchildren.
Source: Daughters of Utah Pioneers Obituary Scrapbook Extracts of Utah newspaper articles about vital events
Date: May 12, 1932
Submitted and transcribed by Barb Ziegenmeyer
Martin Luther Ensign
LOGAN--Martin Luther Ensign died at his home in Logan Wednesday.
Services will be held in the Brigham City Fourth ward chapel, Thursday at 2 p.m.
Mr. Ensign was born in Brigham City, Jan. 5, 1862, a son of Martin Luther and Mary Dunn Ensign. He has been a resident of Logan for the past 11 years.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Olive A. Ensign, and the following children: Mrs. Eunice E. Nelson, Sandy; Martin Russell Ensign, Gainesville, Florida; Mrs. Esta W. Sarager, Phoenix, Arizona; Mrs. Geneva W. Ensign, Sacato, Arizona; Horace D. Ensign, Clovis, California; J. C. Ensign, Tracy, California; and Milton W. Ensign, Stockton, California.
Burial will be in the Brigham City cemetery.
Source: Daughters of Utah Pioneers Obituary Scrapbook Extracts of Utah newspaper articles about vital events
Date: May 12, 1932
Submitted and transcribed by Barb Ziegenmeyer
Philip Henry Marquettes
LOGAN--Philip Henry Marquettes, 80, died of the family residence in Preston Thursday, following a lingering illness from Bright's disease.
Mr. Marquetts was the seventeenth male child born in Salt Lake City. He was born August 23, 1851.
Preston has been his home for 40 years. Surviving him are: his wife, Maria Clayton Marquettes and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Perthenia Hall of Idaho Falls, Minnie Charles, George, David and Albert of Salt Lake City.
Services will be held in the Fourth ward chapel in Preston, Sunday at 2 p.m
Source: Daughters of Utah Pioneers Obituary Scrapbook Extracts of Utah newspaper articles about vital events
Date: July 22, 1932
Submitted and transcribed by Barb Ziegenmeyer
Mary Ann Shaw
WELLSVILLE--Services for Mrs. Mary Ann Shaw, 84, of Magna were held in the tabernacle, Monday at 2 p.m., with Bishop John J. Hendry presiding. Speakers were, C. N. Maughan, Robert Brown, Heber C. Green and Bishop Hendry. Prayers were by Nephi Green and William Darley.
Special musical numbers were by Vernon Maughan, Mattie Darley and Kenneth B. Murray. Interment was in the Wellsville cemetery.
Source: Daughters of Utah Pioneers Obituary Scrapbook Extracts of Utah newspaper articles about vital events
Date: August 15, 1932
Submitted and transcribed by Barb Ziegenmeyer
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