Parents: Elias Gardner and Amy Pritchard (1799-1846)
Spouse: Lewis Nebeker

DEATH AFTER LONG ILLNESS
MRS. NANCY M. NEBEKER SUFFERS NO MORE
An invalid for eight years, following prostration at tabernacle fire-was RICHFIELD'S FIRST SCHOOL TEACHER-PIONEER SETTLER

After eight years of illness, the wornout body of Mrs. Nancy M. Nebeker surrendered its spirit last Saturday morning to enter the portal where there is no disease, no death. For weeks Mrs. Nebeker had been gradually sinking and the wonder is that she held out as long as she did. For more than a week preceding death she had taken no nourishment whatever and during the last three or four days she was scarcely conscious of what went on around her. She was surrounded by her entire family of four sons and two daughters when the end peacefully arrived. The funeral was held Monday and many friends paid the last tribute of respect to the mortal remains of the deceased.

Mrs. Nebeker was born in Ohio on May 15, 1837, and came with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gardner, to Utah in pioneer days, when she was but a little girl. They settled first at Payson. She was married when 19 years of age to Louis Nebeker, who died here about 13 years ago. They were among the pioneer settlers of Richfield and had to flee, with the other early settlers, from the hostile Indians. They returned when the trouble was over and lived here since.

To Mrs. Nebeker belongs the distinction of having been the FIRST SCHOOL TEACHER in Richfield and a number of gray-haired men and women recall her as their teacher. She had seen the Prophet Joseph Smith.

The excitement attending the burning of the tabernacle a little more than eight years ago was such a shock to Mrs. Nebeker that she suffered an attack of nervous prostration, which was the beginning of the illness that had made her an invalid ever since.

Richfield Reaper
3 January 1907