Sudden and unexpected were the death summons of Mrs. Susan Gauchat, at Annabella, Wednesday morning. The preceding afternoon The Tribune representative talked with her and shew as then in her usual good health and spirits. Tuesday evening, after closing her store, she began to feel ill, and asked one of her neighbor’s girls to stay with [her] that night. About 2 o’clock in the morning Mrs. Gauchat became quite ill and the girl went out for assistance. When neighbors arrived she was nearly unconscious. She passed away at 11 o’clock in the forenoon. The body will be buried in Richfield today. Mrs. Gauchat was born at Nauvoo, Ill., in 1846, and was brought to Utah with the first pioneers in 1847. Her parents resided first at Salt Lake, then helped to found Payson. She then moved with her husband to Provo; then to St. Thomas, on the Muddy river, in Nevada; then to Rose Valley, then to Sevier, settling at what has been known as Prattville, in this county, in 1872. She was married while a resident of Payson to Stanley Davis of that place, who died in Richfield in 1880. She was again married in 1896 to Philip Gauchat of Annabella, who died two years later. Mrs. Gauchat has six living children, with one exception all well-known residents of Utah. These are Mr. W. W. Clark of Monroe, Mrs. Ed Clark of Richfield, Mrs. Orson Keeler of Kimberly, Mrs. Albert Burke of Park City, Stanley Davis of Bingham and Frank Davis of North Dakota. She conducted a store at Annabella for several years past, and had been one of the school trustees of that place.
Sudden and unexpected were the death summons of Mrs. Susan Gauchat, at Annabella, Wednesday morning. The preceding afternoon The Tribune representative talked with her and shew as then in her usual good health and spirits. Tuesday evening, after closing her store, she began to feel ill, and asked one of her neighbor’s girls to stay with [her] that night. About 2 o’clock in the morning Mrs. Gauchat became quite ill and the girl went out for assistance. When neighbors arrived she was nearly unconscious. She passed away at 11 o’clock in the forenoon. The body will be buried in Richfield today. Mrs. Gauchat was born at Nauvoo, Ill., in 1846, and was brought to Utah with the first pioneers in 1847. Her parents resided first at Salt Lake, then helped to found Payson. She then moved with her husband to Provo; then to St. Thomas, on the Muddy river, in Nevada; then to Rose Valley, then to Sevier, settling at what has been known as Prattville, in this county, in 1872. She was married while a resident of Payson to Stanley Davis of that place, who died in Richfield in 1880. She was again married in 1896 to Philip Gauchat of Annabella, who died two years later. Mrs. Gauchat has six living children, with one exception all well-known residents of Utah. These are Mr. W. W. Clark of Monroe, Mrs. Ed Clark of Richfield, Mrs. Orson Keeler of Kimberly, Mrs. Albert Burke of Park City, Stanley Davis of Bingham and Frank Davis of North Dakota. She conducted a store at Annabella for several years past, and had been one of the school trustees of that place.
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