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Show -- -___,---------- J7b Salt L8ke City, Utah. Dec. 18, 1969 Dea.th Of Estella McLaws Cummins - isse a.n The of Dec'. 11, 19690f the "Tribune News" our old "home-town" Arizona long before our to Salt Lake' northrn a n¥s:pper of the death of another of my earliest re?ort s an acquA1n ances l.n Old St. Joseph, the first and only one of Tlen. the Fl.rst Four Settleents of the Mormons on the Little C 0 1 ora d 0 ttl. ver migrtion Cfl.Y dn 19d55, carted . l.n 1876 , The deat Sl.S t to pe r· was -. a t· l. t s that of 8pproximate first location until the present. Agnes Estella McLaws Cummins, daughter of John Sophl. De taMare McLaws, members of the founding company of old St. Joseph, led by Wm. C. AUenT-the most of the members of this pioneer company perhaps arrived at Old St. Joseph during the Spring of 1876. According to this newspaper report, Estella was born at St. Joseph ' then in Apap m County, Ari zona Territory August 29, 1885. I think she was the 5th child of her parents, who had arrived there April the 13, 1876. All of their children, I believe, were born at deathis at Stella's age strugling little pioneer settlement. a week of illness in the after She as 84 years. died, given understand that Bingham Memorial H08pital of Blackfoot, Idaho. I her body was taken by airplane fr ackfoot to Joseph City, burial. at J.oseph or perhaps to the nearest landing rH!fciwfor settlement since 1923. City ---the name of the pioneer and . arrived When John McLaws and his young wife, Sophia Be La. Mare, rrain the that evidenced encampment at Allen April 13, 1876, it is Its Icc -at.Lon is mentioned as had heen here about 3 weeks. perhaps same place that the per McLaws couple must have been manent dam now occupies; and here the One or two buildings were erected at this temporary stopping place. colonists used their wagons. The site here; but for the most part the erected during the months of of the Old Fort wa s chosen and the Fort There had ueen a few loca July and August, and occupied in August. as far westward as the tions made for houses, if ever built, perhaps Of. course John McLaws Railroad Station and near the river. the 3 miles below the first damsite (about oresent moved into the OldFort. That "ber.ch" land now occupied by Joseph being 1879 moves City soon drew attention; and perhaps by still probably this on bench, home The contemolated to occuPY it. con among the irxt members of the f;mily, was probably owned and the since John McLaws was the village structed famStella, with 1-1aS probably Stella's birthplace. old her marnage to as"home" of the ily, real;ky jbew no other place He built a small homewest Frank Leroy Pratt Cummins Mar. 17, 1909. died Cummins Aug. PorteI' holdings. St. Joseph "lash just "lest of the most of her spent s hs priably Stella 10, 1933; and since t his event, survived 2 sons, and 2 daughters-by is She life withher children. Gerald (Mrs and Robert of Urbana, Ohio, andnMadge Frank of Mesa Lake Doald Clark 01 South ho· and Marian (Mrs, Ida of Shipley husband has probably the death Taho,}. Most of 22 also sUrY1ved by been in Mesa, Ari7.0n8. Estella is d1ed l.n 1954. Her oldest son, Malcolm, and by 20 great-frandchildren. by were carenter; hous be.for he • StrlinO' he;'life since of,her granjhilren . |
