Mrs. Mabel Young Sanborn... Was Brigham Young's Young’s 54th Child. > Last Daughter > Oo FAO oO Q2a5'a Of Young, wt | 87, Succumbs The last of Brigham Young’s sons and daughters, Mrs. Mabel Young Sanborn, died Wednesday at 3:20 p.m. in a Salt Lake hospital of causes incident to age. She was 87. Mrs. Sanborn,..who. resided at | 705 N. 1st West, was the 54th child of the second president and pioneer leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. None of the other 55 sons and daughters survive. Active until a short time before her death, Mrs. Sanborn participated less than four months ago in ceremonies in Washington, D. C., during which a statue of Brigham Young was unveiled in the rotunda |_ of the nation’s capitol: Chicago Honors eh a <1 Nw Av y She and a sister, Mrs, Fannie V. Young Clayton, who died Jan. 31, 1950, were honored at a spe-|. cial pioneer program at the Chi-|cago railroad fair in 1949. Mrs. Sanborn’s life paralleled the | : almost legendary development of the LDS church and of Utah. She was born Feb. 22, 1863, a daughter ‘|of Brigham and Lucy Bigelow Young, in the historic Lion house, 63 E. South Temple. She received her early education -|in the family schoolhouse, later the Brigham school, which stood on the site of the Eagle Gate apartments, 105 E. South Temple. She was 14 years old when her ' father died. Married in S. L. Mrs. Sanborn was married to Daniel H. McCallister in Salt Lake City in 1879, to Brigham Witt in 1888 and to Joseph S, Sanborn in 1898, She was ‘the mother of four sons and a daughter. A son, Abbott Young Sanborn, died in Salt Lake City in 1907, and a daughter, Mrs. Lucy Sanborn Spencer, died in January, 1945. The family requests no flowers. Surviving are three sons, Daniel H. McCallister, Los Angeles, superintendent of state buildings in California; Fred W. Witt, Indio and/d Palm Springs, Cal., and Joseph Gilpin Young Sanborn, Washington, D. C., director of training in a navy advanced experimental lab- .joratory; 11 grandchildren great- Se and 13).