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LAS VEGAS AGE
3/1/1913

MRS. BUNKER DEAD

    Panguitch, Feb. 18.  Mrs. Emily ABBOTT BUNKER died February 7 at the 
home of her daughter.  She had suffered three years from a fractured leg 
which, with the infirmities of old age, was the cause of death.  Mrs. 
BUNKER was born in Dansville, N. Y., September 19, 1827.  She joined the 
church in 1811 and moved to Nauvoo with her parents.  She was married to 
Edward BUNKER February 9, 1816, Elder John TAYLOR performing the 
ceremony.  She was a member of the first Relief society organized by the 
Prophet Joseph SMITH.  Her husband enlisted in the Mormon Battalion and 
left his wife to defend his country.  When her husband returned, two 
years later, she was the mother of a child born shortly after he had 
left with his comrades.  In 1850 they came to Utah and settled in 
"Dixie."  They moved to Santa Clara, where Mr. BUNKER was bishop for a 
number of years.  In 1877 they moved to Bunkerville and in 1901 to 
Mexico, where Mr. BUNKER died.  In 1907 Mrs. BUNKER returned to Utah, 
since which time she lived with her children until the time of her 
death.  She was the mother of eleven children, five boys and six girls.  
These, with sixty-six grandchildren, sixty-seven great grandchildren and 
two great-great-grandchildren are the number of her posterity.  Desert 
News.