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James Isaac Atkinson Sr.

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James Isaac Atkinson Sr.

Birth
Sackville, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada
Death
18 Dec 1933 (aged 92)
Bountiful, Davis County, Utah, USA
Burial
Bountiful, Davis County, Utah, USA
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B-4-30-1
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Death Claims Utah Pioneer
James Isaac Atkinson Sr., 92, Utah pioneer of 1853 died at his home here early Monday.
Mr. Atkinson was born in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, November 28, 1841, a son of William and Phoebe Campbell Atkinson, who were among the earlier settlers of this section.
As a young man, Mr. Atkinson was a member of the Lot Smith company who guarded the emigrant trails from Indians during the civil war, and also was a member of the Andrew Bigler company during the Black Hawk Indian war, seeing service in Sanpete county. He was a past commander of J. Quincy Knowlton post of the G.A.R. and was said to be the last surviving member.
He married Hannah Pauline Brown in the Salt Lake L.D.S. endowment house March 7, 1870. She died June 12, 1899.
Surviving are seven sons and daughters: James I. Jr. and Lawrence Guy Atkinson and Mrs. Winnie E. Whitecar, Woods Cross; Maud Atkinson, Long Beach, Cal.; Mrs. Stephen L. Moyle, Salt Lake; Mrs. Myrtle Jane Rudy, Thistle; Mrs. Alice East, Bountiful; five sisters: Mrs. Phoebe Saunders and Mrs. Olive Muir, Idaho; Mrs. Rhoda Knight, Salt Lake; Mrs. Mary Ann Dieppe, Lewiston, and Mrs. Clara Argyle, Woods Cross; 34 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be conducted Thursday at 1 p.m. in the South Bountiful L.D.S. ward chapel, with internment in the Bountiful City Cemetery. Friends may call at the family home after 1 p.m. Tuesday until the time of the service.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on December 19, 1933
Death Claims Utah Pioneer
James Isaac Atkinson Sr., 92, Utah pioneer of 1853 died at his home here early Monday.
Mr. Atkinson was born in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, November 28, 1841, a son of William and Phoebe Campbell Atkinson, who were among the earlier settlers of this section.
As a young man, Mr. Atkinson was a member of the Lot Smith company who guarded the emigrant trails from Indians during the civil war, and also was a member of the Andrew Bigler company during the Black Hawk Indian war, seeing service in Sanpete county. He was a past commander of J. Quincy Knowlton post of the G.A.R. and was said to be the last surviving member.
He married Hannah Pauline Brown in the Salt Lake L.D.S. endowment house March 7, 1870. She died June 12, 1899.
Surviving are seven sons and daughters: James I. Jr. and Lawrence Guy Atkinson and Mrs. Winnie E. Whitecar, Woods Cross; Maud Atkinson, Long Beach, Cal.; Mrs. Stephen L. Moyle, Salt Lake; Mrs. Myrtle Jane Rudy, Thistle; Mrs. Alice East, Bountiful; five sisters: Mrs. Phoebe Saunders and Mrs. Olive Muir, Idaho; Mrs. Rhoda Knight, Salt Lake; Mrs. Mary Ann Dieppe, Lewiston, and Mrs. Clara Argyle, Woods Cross; 34 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be conducted Thursday at 1 p.m. in the South Bountiful L.D.S. ward chapel, with internment in the Bountiful City Cemetery. Friends may call at the family home after 1 p.m. Tuesday until the time of the service.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on December 19, 1933

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