Though his diary ended in 1879, records show that Zemira lived for another year, also that he died at Orderville, not at Washington. The Orderville census June 1880 lists him and Sally and their children who were still at home.
The publication, To Commemorate the Orderville United Order, by Anna P. Seaman, p. 11, includes this sentence which is so typical of Zemira: “On July 24, 1880, at the Pioneer Day celebration, Zemira was Marshall of the Day.”
His daughter Arletta supplies some interesting information. From her history we read:
“Father worked on the cotton farm near Washington, Wash. Co., Utah. The cotton which was raised was taken to the Cotton Factory nearby and the people received cloth for it, which was turned into the common store, each one receiving their portion of cloth for their own use.
“Later father was called back to Orderville to work. The climate did not agree with him as did the Dixie climate. He also had stomach trouble caused, he thought, from a hurt which happened when he was a young man in California. He was dragged quite a distance over rough country while riding a bronco horse on the range. He died at Orderville, Oct. 22, 1880, and was buried there. My mother had died there three years before.”
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