Pioneer Woman Is Dead at Home in Temple City
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Obituary for Margaret T. Mitchell
Special to The Tribune.
LOGAN, April 7.-Margaret Thompson Mitchell, widow of Frederick A. H. F. Mitchell, died Sunday at her home in Logan, following a brief illness.
She was a daughter of Ralph Thompson and Ann Bentley Thompson, and was born January 31, 1840, at Alstanemoor, Cumberland, England. While a child she was brought to the United States by her parents. Her mother died at St. Louis, Mo., in 1848, and the family came to Utah, reaching Salt Lake in the fall of 1849. Salt Lake was made the family home, where Mrs. Mitchell lived most of her life. She became the wife of Frederick A. H. F. Mitchell on November 15, 1855. Soon afterward her husband went on his first mission to Hawaii, while she remained home, working faithfully three years as a counselor to Mrs. Rachel Grant, mother of President Heber J. Grant, then president of the Thirteenth ward Relief society. The duties of raising a large family took her out of public life for a number of years. In 1873 she accompanied her husband and family to Hawaii on his second mission, remaining more than two years. Early in the nineties the family moved to Logan, where Mrs. Mitchell resided the rest of her life. For more than thirty years she had been a worker in the Logan temple. Her husband died in July, 1923.
The funeral will be at Logan, the date to be announced later. The body will be taken to Salt Lake for burial.
Mrs. Mitchell was the mother of twelve children, ten of whom survive her, as follows: Mrs. Margaret A. Caine, Mrs. Ella M. Burton, Mrs. F. Laura McMaster, Mrs. May M. Blackhurst, all of Salt Lake; Miss Ida R. Mitchell and H. Frank Mitchell of Logan, Ralph T. Mitchell of Ogden; Alfred H. Mitchell of Salt Lake, Milton R. Mitchell and Edgar B. Mitchell of Logan. She had thirty-two grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren. Her twin sister, Mrs. Ann Godbe of Los Angeles, and another sister, Mrs. Alice Snarr of Salt Lake, also survive her.