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Show Funeral Held Tuesday Tor Joseph Blain Fuininra! services Ifor Joseph Liain, 89, a pioneer resident of spring City ami a veteran of the Indian wars, were conducted in the iSpring City L. D. S. ward chapel Tuesday at 1 p. m. Bishop James F. Ellis presided at the services. Music -was furnished fur-nished by the ward choir under the direction ai Rose Schofield. The i.'irst song was "Beautiful Home" and the invocation was by John T. Blain. The next song was "I Know That My Redeemer Re-deemer Lives" with Mrs. Evan Christensen' singing the solo part. A solo, "Jesus Is Calling" was sung by Rose Schofield, accompanied ac-companied at the piano by An.. one Osborne. The closing song by the choir was "Resting ivow From Care and Sorrow." The speakers .were James W. illain, C. 11. Strate, Mrs. Sarah il. Hyde arid Bishop Ellis. The benediction was oiifered by Jo-. Jo-. eh F. Hansen. Pallbearers were members of the American Legion: LaMont ensen, Alma D. Carlson, Grover illain and Vero Aiken. A salute was fired over the grave in the Spring City cemetery, directed by Joseph Urseabach. Full military mil-itary honors was accorded Joseph Jo-seph Blain. For many years 'he a as sexton at the Spring City cemetery. Mr. Blain died Fridaiy at 10 p. m. at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Grace Neilsen, after a long ilmesj. Born in Carlisle, England, May .14, 1852, a son of John and Isa-bell Isa-bell Graham Blain, the came to America in 1863 with his mother and eleven bro'Jhers and sisters. They came across the plains to Utah in a wagon train iheaded :iy Captain Joihn Mundook. From bait Lake City the family came directly to Spring City. Mr. Blain took part in the colonizing of Spring City and several other communities. Like others o.1 his time, he was assigned as-signed to tne protection Of settlers, set-tlers, their cattle and crops from forays by Indian raiders. Mr. Blain was Spring City's last In-uian In-uian war veteran. A me.Tier of the L. D. S. cfhiurch he was employed in the cojv struction of the St. George tem-vie tem-vie and many of tne first .buildings .build-ings erected in Spring City. in.-. Blain married1 Newera M. Allred in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, January 3, 1876. Mrs. Blain died 'Mardh 10, 1922. Six of eight sons and daughters daugh-ters survive. They are Mrs. Grace Neilsen and Alden Blain of Spring City, J. D. Blain d. Murray, Orson and Guy Blain of Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Lucy Hansen of Brigham City. Thirty-one Thirty-one grandchildren and1 thirty-two thirty-two great-grandchildren also survive. Among the out-of-town people who came to attend services for Mr. Blain were: Mr. and Mrs. Deloss Blain, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Blain, Mrs. Shirley Blaini Margaret Mar-garet Blain, Mr. and Mrs. Orson Blain, Faun Sharp, Cliiii' Hansen, Elden Nielsen and Richard Hansen, Han-sen, all of Salt Lake City; Myrl Lini.'oi'd o: Garland; Mrs. Ewinda Madsen, Mr. and Mrs. Theo Ao-derson Ao-derson of Ephraim, Clara Johnson, John-son, Vilate Chatwin, Mr. and Mrs. Pratt Allred of Manti; Mr. and Mrs. Blain Nielsen, Mr. and Mrs. Newell Nielsen of Rupert, Idaho; Mrs. Clyde Hollenback, Mrs. Ethel Christensen and Pratt Allred of Chester and' many others. |