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Show ' Kleinman, John W. Norton, A. P. Shumway, W. c. A. Smoot, James W.Stesvart.Joseph Rooker, Samuel H. Marble,. Horace Thornton, W. P. Vance, Henson Walker, George Woodard and Lorenzo Sobieski Young. The above does not refer to j those of the Mormon battalion j who joined the pioneers in Wyom- ing, the Crow family or any other j that came into the valley at the ! same time, but did not travel ali j the way from the Missouri with pioneer band. The list includes only those who started with the pioneers. Of the survivors, Aaron F. j Farr and George Woodard, with three others who have died, were! sent back from GreenRiver.Wyo , J to meet other companies following j the pioneers. The fire men traveled travel-ed alone across the wilds ofWy-j joming to guide the second party, jand therefore did not arrive at j the same time as the pioneers . But eighteen of the survivors rrrived between the 22d and 24th July, j 1847, so there are today, so far as! can be learned, eighteen men alive t 1 O.li T I .. i nuu icauiicu oait LaKe vaueyen fie dates mentioned. I PASSING OF THE PIONEERS- ' I The immoi tals of 47 are rapidly rapid-ly fading awsy." Announcement was made of the death ot Levi N. Kendall at! ilapleton on March ioth. He was one of the survivors of the original ori-ginal pioneer band of Utah, the body of men under the leadership of the late 'ri;jham Young, who arrived Ju.y 22-24,1847. Mr.Ken-dall Mr.Ken-dall arrived Ju722d, and was one of those who started the first plough in this region. His death recalls the fact that the list of survivors sur-vivors of that famous band is gradually grad-ually diminishing. During the jubilee of 1S97 TheTribune located locat-ed twenty ni.;e survr.ws, and since chen anotU;- !;..- b ea heard from, Samuel H. M.vblc, who did not report to ju'-l-e headquarters at' the time. He: Is still living in Arizona. Ari-zona. Joseph Rooker is thought to be living at or near SanDie?o,Cal. Since the jubilee deaths have occurred as f jIlowsrLyman Curtis, Joseph Ebert, Stephen H. God-3ard, God-3ard, Charles Shumway and Wil-ford Wil-ford Woodruff in I S98; Norman Taylor in 1099; Charles A. Harper Stephen Kclsey, in 1900; George Wardle, in 1901, and Levi N. Kendall in 1903. j According to the list of' the year 197 and those since' located, this would show that' there are at present but twenty 1 survivors of the pioneer band, as' follows: George W.Brown, Thorn-J as i .Cloward, Franklin B. Dewey, Dew-ey, Isaac Perry Decker, Ozro F. Eastman, Aaron F. Farr, Gieen' |