DWIGHT PECK

PIONEER OF MALAD IS LAID TO REST

Impressive Services Held Tuesday For Dwight Peck

Funeral services were held Tuesday att he [at the] Malad Stake tabernacle for Dwight Peck of Pocatello. [Died- August 1936] Bishop O. H. Mabey[sic] conducted the services, which were as follows:

A vocal duet by Morgan and Lester Tovey[sic]; invocation by C. Hutteballe[sic]; remarks by T. D. Jones of Pocatello, vocal solo, Mrs. Margaret E. Jones; remarks by J. C. Tovey[sic] and Rev. D. E. Sharp; a vocal solo by Mrs. Kate E. Jones and benediction by C. Hutteballe[sic].

Burial was in the Malad cemetery. Guy Benson dedicated the grave.

Out-of-town relatives and friends who were here for the services are Mr. and Mrs. Walter Peck, and Clara Peck, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Jones, Mrs. Fred Ray, D. C. Ray, Mrs. Minnie Howard, Mrs. Alice Daniels, Mrs. Charles Peck, Jr., and daughter, Ardith[sic], of Pocatello.

Mrs. Martha Gish and son of twin Falls; Mrs. Lanie[sic] Cooper, Mrs. Della Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Peck of Lava; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hargis and family; Henry Folland[sic], Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Peck, Mrs. Raymond Cooper of Salt Lake City.

Besides his son, Mr. Peck is survived by the following brothers and sisters:

Howard Peck, Charles Peck and Mrs. Emma Wass[sic], all of Malad, Mrs. Millie Thews[sic] of Spokane, Washington, Mrs. Julia Woozley, Oroville, Washington, and Mrs. J. L. Ellis of Escondido, California.

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Mr. Peck was born in Green county, New York, in December, 1845. His father, Henry Peck, brought the family west by covered wagon in 1860. Hecame[He came] to Malad in 1860 and four years later brought his three sons and settled there. The Peck cabin was the first house in Malad. Chief Pocatello and his band of Indians were camped in the valley at the time. Henry Peck built the first sawmill in Malad, which sawed much of the building lumber for early Malad; He opened the first store and later opened the Peck Hotel.

Dwight Peck married Martha Biddlecome[sic] at Oxford, in December, 1875, and seven years later moved his wife and family to the Salmon river county. He later settled on a ranch in Big Lost river valley, near what is now known, as Peck Canyon. In his later years he conducted a hotel at Malad, but most of the last 18 years of his life were spent in Pocatello at the home of his son, W. H. Peck. His wife died in Pocatello in April 1932.