accidental DEATH OF ELDE ELDER it LEWIS ROBBINS BOBBINS while a number of brethren were engi engaged med ged quarrying rock for the meeting house bouse about j to be erected in st george washington county on the loth of february last las t a large stone supposed to weigh four or five I 1 der aen decle 17 gave viray way and br robbing robbins lefin ledin being 0 at the time juist epst below belov it a receiving his bis imminent danger ran down the hill bill the stone bound in the same mame direction with fearful ve fio Ilo city stubbing his foot be he fell and in a I 1 moment after he was a shockingly mutilated murii abed corpse three hours hard bard labor were re 1 quiren to extricate his broken remains malna re ile he has iet let a wife and four children to mourn bla bia i I 1 loss deceased was wag born botn september 8 1811 1812 at rockbridge berte berta county col coi nty massachusetts when ox six years old hie bie we hia h ia parents moved to bloomfield in the state of new hew york and mix ik years subsequently to norfolk in connect cut aut at enbe went to learn the trade of ot blacksmithing with an art elder brother in the state ot new yorla on the ast 1st of may 1832 1833 I 1 be heard the fullness of the gospel preached and add en cn the ath of the same barme month oas was baptized by elder simeon carter shortly afterwards moved to kirtland where be he was ordained an elder ejder by joseph the seer in went to Aliss missouri ourt in zons zona camp afterwards settled for tor a time ia in clay county performed I 1 several missions ia in the states traveling with I 1 elders 0 pratt Pr attL L D barnes john At mardock and others obbera february 1835 he waa vaa chosen ben to be one of the grau grat quorum oe of seventies and when then other seventies were chosen in nauvoo be he was ordained a president in the 2nd and dionna Qi onra onna which office he held and honored to the day dakof of hia bia death the writer of this epitome of the life of br robbins bobbins was associated with him upon his bis european mission in the years 1843 and 51 and ever found him at his post and a manof man of sterling worth and unflinching integrity in 1852 he came cama to this terri territory tory bringing bring Dg with him his bis son and daughter their mother the partner of bis his borys joys and sorrows having died in iowa while be he was preaching the gospel in great britain corm comm com corn