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Show ot s, 7 wenn, “se ew ON eee La Valk (oe pe ~ > pty, i ah Pioneers can, rae Only 14 Survivors I N THE PERIOD BETWEEN July 24, 1847 and when his parents started their voyage to America. May 10, 1869, it is estimated that some $6,000 men, women and children made the long trek They spent the winter of 1863 in Salt Lake City but moved to Payson the next spring, and then, 13 years later, moved south to Grass Valley, near over the plains, from the east or the west, into Utah. Of were this total, approximately buried, either in the ocean 6,000 died or in the Koosharem in Sevier County. Mr. Brown married Amelia C. Olsen, Nov. 20, 1888, and the family made their home in Koosharem where he was engaged in farming and stock raising. The family made a home in Koosharem until Mrs. Brown’s death in 1946. Since then Mr. Brown has lived for about five years with a daughter in Salt Lake City, and with other of his children in other parts of the state. _ Harriet Harris Sweetring Clawson, was born Nov. 8, 1867 on the Atlantic Ocean as her parents were making a return visit to England. The and lonel _ graves by the side of the pioneer trail. : Today, only 14 of those pioneers—pioneers because of their arrival in Utah alive. of the railroad—are before the coming These 14, lone survivors of some 80,000, will ~ be feted—those who can make the trip—on 24, with seats of honor at the traditional and with a luncheon at Hotel Utah. THE DAUGHTERS July parade, OF UTAH Pioneers have for many years taken up the responsibility of honoring these original pioneers, and under the leadership of their president, Mrs. Kate B. Carter, have compiled the histories of thousands _ family returned of the pioneers—including those told in brief below. All of the surviving pioneers came to Utah _ as children, growing up in a new territory that their parents were wresting from These are the pioneers: _ — nom ee oa Out of a total of 86,000 ete Mrs. Agnes the wilderness. Griffin Branch, 175 West Third two years old. Ill with diphtheria when the family left their home, she survived the trip, although two. sisters and a brother died of cholera during - the trek, Once in Utah, the family suffered extreme hardships—the father returned east and a few years later the mother died. Mrs. Branch was adopted by an English couple, sent to a private in her home continually settled parents in 1868. trade, then in Coalville. She proved an apt musician as a girl, and in later life, saw to it that her children received music lessons. _ She was married to Moroni Clawson Aug. 9, 1887 and Morgan hotel the couple and later in business. 1912. and Clawson. They lived there spent some Cumberland, moved back until the time in in the to Morgan death Heber Charles in England, and 1866, locating Fox came first was born to Utah in Jan. with Centerville, 14, Mr. later in Salt his with a partner at 131 St. since that She was married to Oliver Henry Halverson in 1881 and they made their first home in Gunni? son. Mrs. Halverson moved to Salt Lake 1937 following the death of her husband. . She is the mother of six sons and ters, five of whom Lake City. At the a scholar- Harold Ship to the University of Deseret. Following graduation in’1887 he spent a varied career as C. Halverson still time parents in she City in : resides Jensen, Norway, 1866. Only born came three in daugh- living—all ? with at 1902-Ninth East St. Lundberg 1863, in Christiana, her are 7 present Selma salesman, school teacher, a cattle buyer and clerk for firms in Evanston and Almy, Wyo., and vari- since business team in 1865 and has resided in Utah time. in with into Josephine Erickson Halverson, born Dec. 27, 1864, in Norway crossed the plains to Utah by ox- 1866, his parents went {940 West) in of As a boy he learned the harness and saddle worked in the business for 26 years and and 139 West First South St. until 1951 when the two partners retired, selling the business to one of Mr. Fowler’s sons. Mr. Fowler married four times, and reared ji children. He and his present wife, whom he married in March, 1948, now live at 351 Chicago Echo, Wyo., Lake City, and then in Woodruff maternal grandparents. ; At the age of 17 he was granted school where she became a champion speller. She was married to H. W. Branch on May 30, has lived in 1868 and Walter George Fowler, a Londoner, was Nov. 21, 1862, and came to Utah with his born At the present time Mrs. Clawson is living with her son-and-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Basil A. Smith, 1729 Cornell Circle (1549 West St.), in Salt Lake City. North Street, born in Hartford, Conn., June 20, 1860, came to Utah with her family when she was 1885, and ~ to America - and she ran the family ranch during his absence, She lives at present in Grantsville. Salt : a son, June. to Utah years old, 16, with she early childhood, it being the home of her adopted ous parts of Utah. and her sister were tucked in between boxes and_ He was superintendent of _ parents. 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