BASIN PIONEER DIES IN ROOSEVELT
ROOSEVELT--Jeremiah Murray, 85, retired Uintah Basin farmer and stockman, died at his home here Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. of causes incident to age.
Funeral rites will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in the Roosevelt LDS Ward Chapel by Bishop Randall Stewart. Burial was in Roosevelt City Cemetery.
Mr. Murray was born at Spanish Fork, December 7, 1883, a son of Jeremiah H. and Mariah Neilson Murray. On November 8, 1884, he married Christina E. Nilson at Vernnon, Tooele County. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.
Moving to Roosevelt from Sandy at the opening of the Uintah reservation in 1905, he had resided here since.
He was an active member in the LDS Church, holding the office of an elder and was instrumental in organizing the first school in the present town of Ballard.
Mr. Murray is survived by his widow, five sons, J. Guy Murray, Riverside, California; Douglas J. Murray, Helper; Clyde R. Murray, Roosevelt; Vern L and Ralph N. Murray, Salt Lake City; three daughters, Mrs. Mildred Wilkins, St. George; Mrs. Elda CLoward and Mrs. Della McCleaana, Taft, California; four brothers, Johnathan, William and Hatch Murray, Vernal and Joseph Murray, Sacramento, California; a sister, Mrs. Margaret Harrison, Lapoint; 26 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
-Vernal Express, November 9, 1949, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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Jeremiah Murray
Jeremiah was a baby when his father volunteered to go as a missionary to the Muddy in Southern Utah to help make a settlement there.
His father performed many duties of the most trying and stirring nature. Surrounded by hostile tribes (Moapa Indians), and in a desert land nearly 150 miles from the nearest source of provisions, his father took his wife and baby with him. The Indians drove their horses away and while the other men were hunting for their horses, his dad stayed in camp. His dad saw two Indians coming so he hid his wife and baby under a load of potatoes in a wagon, and he hid in the rocks. His father was afraid they'd smother, but after looking the wagon over, the Indians went on and bothered nothing.
The little baby mentioned hidden under the potatoes at the Muddy was Jeremiah Murray, the father of Elda, Edith, Guy, Vern, Della, Mildred, Douglas, Ralph, and Clyde.
He married Christena Elizabeth Neilson.
ROOSEVELT--Jeremiah Murray, 85, retired Uintah Basin farmer and stockman, died at his home here Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. of causes incident to age.
Funeral rites will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in the Roosevelt LDS Ward Chapel by Bishop Randall Stewart. Burial was in Roosevelt City Cemetery.
Mr. Murray was born at Spanish Fork, December 7, 1883, a son of Jeremiah H. and Mariah Neilson Murray. On November 8, 1884, he married Christina E. Nilson at Vernnon, Tooele County. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.
Moving to Roosevelt from Sandy at the opening of the Uintah reservation in 1905, he had resided here since.
He was an active member in the LDS Church, holding the office of an elder and was instrumental in organizing the first school in the present town of Ballard.
Mr. Murray is survived by his widow, five sons, J. Guy Murray, Riverside, California; Douglas J. Murray, Helper; Clyde R. Murray, Roosevelt; Vern L and Ralph N. Murray, Salt Lake City; three daughters, Mrs. Mildred Wilkins, St. George; Mrs. Elda CLoward and Mrs. Della McCleaana, Taft, California; four brothers, Johnathan, William and Hatch Murray, Vernal and Joseph Murray, Sacramento, California; a sister, Mrs. Margaret Harrison, Lapoint; 26 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
-Vernal Express, November 9, 1949, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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Jeremiah Murray
Jeremiah was a baby when his father volunteered to go as a missionary to the Muddy in Southern Utah to help make a settlement there.
His father performed many duties of the most trying and stirring nature. Surrounded by hostile tribes (Moapa Indians), and in a desert land nearly 150 miles from the nearest source of provisions, his father took his wife and baby with him. The Indians drove their horses away and while the other men were hunting for their horses, his dad stayed in camp. His dad saw two Indians coming so he hid his wife and baby under a load of potatoes in a wagon, and he hid in the rocks. His father was afraid they'd smother, but after looking the wagon over, the Indians went on and bothered nothing.
The little baby mentioned hidden under the potatoes at the Muddy was Jeremiah Murray, the father of Elda, Edith, Guy, Vern, Della, Mildred, Douglas, Ralph, and Clyde.
He married Christena Elizabeth Neilson.
BASIN PIONEER DIES IN ROOSEVELT
ROOSEVELT--Jeremiah Murray, 85, retired Uintah Basin farmer and stockman, died at his home here Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. of causes incident to age.
Funeral rites will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in the Roosevelt LDS Ward Chapel by Bishop Randall Stewart. Burial was in Roosevelt City Cemetery.
Mr. Murray was born at Spanish Fork, December 7, 1883, a son of Jeremiah H. and Mariah Neilson Murray. On November 8, 1884, he married Christina E. Nilson at Vernnon, Tooele County. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.
Moving to Roosevelt from Sandy at the opening of the Uintah reservation in 1905, he had resided here since.
He was an active member in the LDS Church, holding the office of an elder and was instrumental in organizing the first school in the present town of Ballard.
Mr. Murray is survived by his widow, five sons, J. Guy Murray, Riverside, California; Douglas J. Murray, Helper; Clyde R. Murray, Roosevelt; Vern L and Ralph N. Murray, Salt Lake City; three daughters, Mrs. Mildred Wilkins, St. George; Mrs. Elda CLoward and Mrs. Della McCleaana, Taft, California; four brothers, Johnathan, William and Hatch Murray, Vernal and Joseph Murray, Sacramento, California; a sister, Mrs. Margaret Harrison, Lapoint; 26 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
-Vernal Express, November 9, 1949, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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Jeremiah Murray
Jeremiah was a baby when his father volunteered to go as a missionary to the Muddy in Southern Utah to help make a settlement there.
His father performed many duties of the most trying and stirring nature. Surrounded by hostile tribes (Moapa Indians), and in a desert land nearly 150 miles from the nearest source of provisions, his father took his wife and baby with him. The Indians drove their horses away and while the other men were hunting for their horses, his dad stayed in camp. His dad saw two Indians coming so he hid his wife and baby under a load of potatoes in a wagon, and he hid in the rocks. His father was afraid they'd smother, but after looking the wagon over, the Indians went on and bothered nothing.
The little baby mentioned hidden under the potatoes at the Muddy was Jeremiah Murray, the father of Elda, Edith, Guy, Vern, Della, Mildred, Douglas, Ralph, and Clyde.
He married Christena Elizabeth Neilson.
ROOSEVELT--Jeremiah Murray, 85, retired Uintah Basin farmer and stockman, died at his home here Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. of causes incident to age.
Funeral rites will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in the Roosevelt LDS Ward Chapel by Bishop Randall Stewart. Burial was in Roosevelt City Cemetery.
Mr. Murray was born at Spanish Fork, December 7, 1883, a son of Jeremiah H. and Mariah Neilson Murray. On November 8, 1884, he married Christina E. Nilson at Vernnon, Tooele County. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.
Moving to Roosevelt from Sandy at the opening of the Uintah reservation in 1905, he had resided here since.
He was an active member in the LDS Church, holding the office of an elder and was instrumental in organizing the first school in the present town of Ballard.
Mr. Murray is survived by his widow, five sons, J. Guy Murray, Riverside, California; Douglas J. Murray, Helper; Clyde R. Murray, Roosevelt; Vern L and Ralph N. Murray, Salt Lake City; three daughters, Mrs. Mildred Wilkins, St. George; Mrs. Elda CLoward and Mrs. Della McCleaana, Taft, California; four brothers, Johnathan, William and Hatch Murray, Vernal and Joseph Murray, Sacramento, California; a sister, Mrs. Margaret Harrison, Lapoint; 26 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
-Vernal Express, November 9, 1949, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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Jeremiah Murray
Jeremiah was a baby when his father volunteered to go as a missionary to the Muddy in Southern Utah to help make a settlement there.
His father performed many duties of the most trying and stirring nature. Surrounded by hostile tribes (Moapa Indians), and in a desert land nearly 150 miles from the nearest source of provisions, his father took his wife and baby with him. The Indians drove their horses away and while the other men were hunting for their horses, his dad stayed in camp. His dad saw two Indians coming so he hid his wife and baby under a load of potatoes in a wagon, and he hid in the rocks. His father was afraid they'd smother, but after looking the wagon over, the Indians went on and bothered nothing.
The little baby mentioned hidden under the potatoes at the Muddy was Jeremiah Murray, the father of Elda, Edith, Guy, Vern, Della, Mildred, Douglas, Ralph, and Clyde.
He married Christena Elizabeth Neilson.
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