Mary (LOSEE) CAFFALL

Mrs. Mary Caffall, wife of Ephraim Caffall (1845-1932) died at her home in Cannonville, Tuesday October 27, at 10 o'clock P.M. by the bursting of a blood vessel on the brain and also heart failure she was only ill five minutes. She is survived by her husband two sons and four daughters

Funeral services were held for Mrs. Caffall at the Tabernacle on Thursday October 29, at 3 o'clock P.M. Bishop Wm. J. Henderson presiding [Cannonville]. Prayer was offered by Elder Nephi Johnson. The speakers for the occasion were Bp. Wm. J. Henderson, Patriarch Seth Johnson of the Tropic Ward, and Bp. Wm. P. Willis of Henrieville, benediction by Elder Harry Quitter of Henrieville, appropriate music for the occasion was furnished by the choir under the direction of Prof. John Fletcher.

The grave was dedicated by Elder O.W. Clark Sr. Mrs. Caffall had practiced as mid-wife for twenty eight years bringing many souls into the world, there is not a home in Cannonville that she has not visited sometime in this capacity and some of four or five times besides many in Tropic, Henrieville and Pahreah. She has officiated at over three hundred and fifty cases, during the twenty seven years of practice she was a faithful latter-day-saint and died in full faith of the gospel. She was a daughter of Isaac H. and Sarah Losee, was born in Iowa May 30, 1849. Emigrated to Utah with her parents in the year 1852, and passed through all the trials of early days in Utah she was the mother of nine children three sons and six daughters, her youngest son and two daughters preceded her to the great beyond a large cortege of vehicles followed the remains to its last resting place in the Cannonville Cemetery.

(Panguitch Progress, 6 November 1914)