Kane County Standard, August 7, 1942

Kanab Pioneer Found Dead Last Saturday

Kanab - Funeral services were held Tuesday at 5 p.m. in the Kanab North ward chapel for Mrs. Ellen Elizabeth Bunting Ford, 81, who was found dead in her home last Saturday afternoon, believed that she had died in her sleep from causes incident to age.
Mrs. Ford has been apparently well with no sickness, although she has been failing the past month. She has been living alone sometime and it is believed that she died early Saturday morning.
Second child of a family of 11 children, Mrs. Ford was the daughter of James L. and Harriet Dye Bunting, born in Salt Lake City January 21, 1861. She married Edwin Mantripp Ford in the St. George temple June 24, 1880, and to the couple were born 11 children of which nine are living and as follows: Joseph L., Edwin J., Walter O., Ardell, Mrs. Susie Young, Mrs. Ellen Henderson, all of Kanab; Mrs. Harriet Johnson, Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. Sarah Thomas of Denver, Colo.
other survivors of the deceased are two brothers, James Bunting of Kanab and William Bunting of St. George; one sister, Mrs. Fannie B. Cram of Kanab; fifty-three grandchildren and 29 great grandchildren.
Mrs. Ford was one of the early pioneers of Kanab, migrating to Kanab from Salt Lake City sent by Brigham Young in 1870, living in the old Kanab fort. She has been an active member of the LDS church, being a Relief society teacher as long as her health permitted, and was a member of the first choir organized in Kanab. She has lived mostly alone since the death of her husband who preceeded her in death Feb. 13, 1921.
Funeral services, conducted by Bishop Clifford Heaton, were as follows; "Resting Now From Care and Sorrow," choir; prayer, D.M. Tietjen; "Softly and Tenderly," Singing Mothers; first speaker, Z.K. Judd; vocal,"I Know My Heavenly Father Knows," Boyd McAllister; second speaker, President Charles C. Heaton; sentiment by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers read by Mrs. Emma Pratt; and last song, "Sister Was Mild and Lovely," with Benediction by Melvin S. Havcock.
Pall bearers were grandsons, Marson and Clifton Young, Jack Crosby, Remo Ford, Don Ford and Neil Crosby.
Burial was in the Kanab cemetery.