Article from Deseret News, 24 Aug 1870:
Shot and Killed. - The settlement of Milton, on the Weber, was the scene of a murder last Friday morning, the victim being a young man twenty-one years of age, named Thomas Jefferson Thurston, Jr, son of Thomas Jefferson Thurston, Sen., an old and well-known citizen of that settlement and this Territory; the perpetrator of the deed was a man named Olsen. From what we have been able to learn, it appears that Olsen, some months ago, put in cicculation a most scandalous report about young Thurston. Last Friday morning, the latter went to see Olsen in relation to this matter. Olsen was working in a field and upon Thurston getting within speaking distance he warned him not to approach, threatening that he would shoot him if he did. Thurton, heedless of the warning, or placing no confidence in the threat, continued to advance towards Olsen, when the latter drew his pistol and shot him in the abdomen, a second fire lodging in the hip. The unfortunate young man lingered until one o'clock on Saturday morning, when death terminated the scene.
Article from Deseret News, 24 Aug 1870:
Shot and Killed. - The settlement of Milton, on the Weber, was the scene of a murder last Friday morning, the victim being a young man twenty-one years of age, named Thomas Jefferson Thurston, Jr, son of Thomas Jefferson Thurston, Sen., an old and well-known citizen of that settlement and this Territory; the perpetrator of the deed was a man named Olsen. From what we have been able to learn, it appears that Olsen, some months ago, put in cicculation a most scandalous report about young Thurston. Last Friday morning, the latter went to see Olsen in relation to this matter. Olsen was working in a field and upon Thurston getting within speaking distance he warned him not to approach, threatening that he would shoot him if he did. Thurton, heedless of the warning, or placing no confidence in the threat, continued to advance towards Olsen, when the latter drew his pistol and shot him in the abdomen, a second fire lodging in the hip. The unfortunate young man lingered until one o'clock on Saturday morning, when death terminated the scene.
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Sarah Ann Thurston Grant
1835–1909
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Julia Rosetta Thurston Arthurs
1841–1916
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Huldah Cordelia Thurston Smith
1846–1939
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Peter Franklin Thurston
1852–1886
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Hannah Thurston
unknown–1838
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Elizabeth Thurston Little
1858–1907
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John Thurston
1859–1921
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Clara Thurston Little
1861–1954
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Mary Thurston Laden
1863–1946
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William Henry Thurston
1865–1918
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Fred Thurston
1867–1945
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Jedediah Morgan Thurston
1869–1903
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Leah Helen Thurston
1873–1880
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Rebecca Thurston Whittier
1875–1961
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Le Roy Thurston
1877–1960
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Bert Harris Thurston
1879–1955
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