Moroni Alma Smith Obituary

Obituary - Moroni A. Smith, 79 year old Utah, Wyoming and Colorado livestock man, died yesterday in a Salt Lake hospital.

Smith, from 1895 until his recent retirement, had operated large sheep ranches in Wasatch, Duchesne and Uintah counties in Utah, in western Colorado and south-central Wyoming.

At one time, Smith had 500,000 acres of Indian land under lease, as one of the first of the western sheepmen to use Indian range land under lease. Smith formerly was a director of the Utah Livestock Production Credit Assn., and was active in formation of national policies for livestock grazing on forest land.

Ogden Standard Examiner (UT) July 5, 1954

Obituary – Moroni A. Smith

July 5, 1954

Moroni A. Smith, 79, prominent Utah livestock man since 1895, died Sunday at 2:30 am in a Salt Lake Hospital of an internal hemorage.

A native of Lehi, Mr Smith had sheep grazing interest in Wasatch, Duchesne and Uintah counties and since 1925 had expanded to Western Colorado and South Central Wyoming.

The early day sheepman was one of the original users of the Indian lease, using about 500,000 grazing acres.

From 1935 to 1948 Mr. Smith was director and officer of the Utah Livestock Production Credit Assn. and was vice president of the National Bank of the Republic in Salt Lake City for three years beginning in 1919.

He was also active on livestock committees which were sent to Washington, D. C. to form and regulate use of the national forests for grazing.

He was a member of the delegation sent to Washington during World War II to represent livestock interests in price regulations.

Mr Smith was born June 27, 1875 in Lehi, a son of Joseph Johnson & Amy (Ann) Coleman Smith. On Jan. 2, 1903, he married Blanche Beck in Alpine. She died April 27, 1954.

He resided at 1205 East 3^rd South St. and was a member of the University Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Survivors include three sons and four daughters, Leland Ray Smith, Craig, Colo., Emory C. and Scott A. Smith, Mrs R. V. (Lela) Wixom, Mrs. R. W. (Evelyn) Olsen, Mrs. Mitchell G. (Alice) Sheya and Mrs. Richard (Phyllis) Stewart, all of Salt Lake City and 25 grandchildren.

Funeral Services Thursday Noon, 260 East South Temple St., where friends may call Wednesday from 6 to 9 pm and Thursday prior to services. Burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery