Who We Lost: Part 44

Jane Evans Bradshaw, 51, Magrath, Alberta; active Red Cross worker. Baptized 1877. Died of influenza 27 Mar 1919; buried at Magrath. Survived by husband and seven of her eight children. After her death, Jane’s piano was given to the local ward’s chapel.

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Beatrice Prior Diston, 20, Portsmouth, England. Baptized 1909. Daughter of LDS district president; bride of a soldier who arrived at her bedside hours before she died of influenza 26 Feb 1919. Her youngest brother died of influenza as her funeral started.

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George Herbert Ball Prior, 3, Portsmouth, England. Son of LDS district president. Died of influenza about 27 Feb 1919, just as the funeral began for his oldest sister, who died of influenza.

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Curney Fridtjof Carlsen, 23, Rigby, Idaho. Baptized 1904. Died at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, of influenza 26 Oct 1918, while in the military service. Buried at Murray, Utah; local Church leaders spoke at his funeral. Survived by his bride of four months.

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Daisy Marrott, 9, Provo, Utah; baptized 1919. Died of influenza at Provo. Survived by parents and eight siblings.

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Samuel Eugene Johnson, 37, Provo, Utah; native of Sweden. Born to LDS parents who married in the Endowment House in 1875. Died of influenza 13 June 1920; buried at Provo. Survived by mother and two sisters.

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Sarah Twigg Evans Summers, 83, Rigby, Idaho. Baptized 1847 in Wales; immigrated 1873; married in the Endowment House 1874. Died of influenza and general debility 15 Dec 1918, “one of the few aged persons that have succumbed to the flu.” Survived by 9 children. (Contributed by Darlene Fuller)

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Ray L. Church, 9 months, Panguitch, Utah, was born to an early LDS family. He died of influenza 8 Feb 1920 and was buried at Panguitch, survived by parents and eight siblings.

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Rebecca Rawson Adamson, 27, Carey, Idaho. Baptized 1914; married in Salt Lake Temple 1914. Rebecca died of influenza/pneumonia 3 Feb 1920. “From her early girlhood she took an active part in Church work.” Survived by husband and small daughter.

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George Alfred Hall, 23, Vernal, Utah; farmer. Baptized 1906. Died of influenza 16 Oct 1918 at Vernal, after falling ill in military training camp of Fort Logan, Colorado; buried at Dry Fork, Vernal, Utah. Survived by wife, 10 siblings. (Contributed by @spencerhall)

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Willard Eugene Bingham, 62, Ogden, Utah. First counselor in bishopric 16 years, Sunday School worker. Served Southern States mission 1880s. Died of influenza 13 Dec 1918. Survived by wife, 10 children. Funeral speakers were bishops and patriarch.

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John Sears Riggs, 19, Hatch, Utah; baptized 1909. John was in Provo, Utah attending his second year of high school when he died of influenza 9 Feb 1920; buried at Hatch. Survived by parents and eight siblings.

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