EPHRAIM BURTON ANSWERS SUMMONS

Word was received in Afton last Wednesday that Ephraim Burton an old resident of Afton had passed away that morning in Salt Lake City death being caused from primary anemia. He had been suffering from this disease for a number of years and several times his life has been in danger. On a number of occasions he has undergone blood transfusions which have helped him but nothing seemed to effect a cure, although he has been to the best specialists the country afforded.
Ephraim was born in Smithfield Utah about 1885 and was the son of Wm.W and Sarah Ann Burton. His parents moved to Star Valley while he was yet in infancy so his home has been in Afton practically all of his life. His earlier years were spent in Afton except the time he spent in school in Utah. There he specialized in the dairy business and graduated form the University about 1915, he secured a position as dairy inspector in the extension department of the State of Wyoming with headquarters at Laramie. He stayed there for about 6 years when he was promoted and was sent as dairy specialist to Washington D.C. and had charge of about 18 states. Just before leaving for Washington D.C. he was married to Henrietta C Colshorn from Minnesota, who was then working in the extension department. He stayed in Washington three of four years but on account of ill health has been in the west the last year or two. Ephraim was exceptionally well liked by those whom he worked with as well as the people of the valley, and they greatly grieve over his death.
The services will be held in Ogden Sunday.
Surely "death loved a shining mark" when it took E. Fielding Burton Government specialist in the division of Animal Husbandry, at Salt Lake City, Utah May 7.
The deceased was a graduate of the State College of Agriculture and became Dairy Extension Specialist with the University of Wyoming, a position he held until he was transferred to the Government Division of Animal Industry at Washington D.C. where he was placed in charge of the dairy work of the thirty-three western states. When on a trip for the Government he was stricken with illness that required blood transfusions to save his life, the entire force volunteered blood and twenty six times his friends tried to save his life in this manner. Two years ago he was transferred to the Western Division at Salt Lake in the hope that a climatic condition might help. At his death Br Larson, head of the Government Dairy Division said, "In his passing the Government loses one of the keenest analytical minds ever employed in the service.."
He was a deep student and had a most unusual combination of scientific information, imagination, vision and practical application, that made him an efficient worker, but the outstanding thing in his life was his fine character and his high ideals.
The funeral services were conducted in Ogden Sunday. Dressed in a white flannel sport suit and resting in a plain gray steel casket he went to his final rest in the same immaculate precision that he had lived in life. Although flowers came from almost every state in the Union on the casket was only a simple spray of sweet peas given by his wife a tender symbol of their courtship days.
The pall bearers were all members of the honorary Fraternity of his college life, while the speakers of the day were his lifelong chums.
Dr George Thomas, president of the University of Utah, Dr E.B. Peterson president of the Utah state College of Agriculture, Prof Rowman of the University of Wyoming, A.A Cooldy of the Government Service.
The deceased is survived by his widow, Henrietta Kolshorn Burton, Nutrition Specialist of the University of Utah and one daughter Little Pat

Burton, Ephraim Fielding (i 9 May 1924) Star Valley Independent