Show OBITUARY NOTES MARY MABY M H EASTON EASTOM AND MARY MART J J REEBE BEESE GREENVILLE Beaver Bearer county Utah Nov 11 1 Died 94 iy 4 Died of old age ace and par par- par paralysis Mary Miller Millar Easton wife ot of the late laic Bishop Robert Easton born Sep Sep- Sep September 28 1825 in d Novem Novem- November ber ber 7 1894 Also Allo o Mary Janet daughter of John and Mary Reese born Dorn NO NOl No l 28 j 1 1892 died November 7 1895 1896 of lung fever Funeral services were held in the Greenville meeting bouse house Bishop J S Morris presided Comforting and con con- consoling consoling consoling soling remarks were made by Elders J JB R Murdock Murdoch and M L Shepherd of Beavert Beaver and O C A Miller and J J S Mor- Mor Morris Morris ris of Greenville ward Salt Lake Herald please copy BI BISHOP HOP J S MORRIS HANNAH H n HAMMOND Died suddenly at her home in Bluff City Utah Nov 10 1894 after an illness of half an hour Hannah Howard Ham Ham- Hammond Hammond Ham mond mond aged 21 years 9 months and 25 days beloved daughter of Elder F A Hammond and Alice Howard Ham Ham- Hammond Hammond Ham mond mond The d deceased ceased was an active ve and useful member of the Sabbath th school and Young Ladies Mutual Matual Improvement As- As Association As Association a true Latter day Saint and beloved by all who knew her ber Her family and friends deeply mourn he lOSS A P SORENSEN JANE SMITH FAWCETT Jane Smith Fawcett was born Novem Novem- November November November ber 4 1814 at Yorkshire England she was married to William Fawcett on the 3rd ol ot August 1836 in Bradford Yorkshire England and was baptized into the Church of J Jesus Christ Christof Christof of Latter-day Latter Saints inthe city oily of York on the of ot January 1840 three days after her husband They were the first who were baptized in York They left England on January 15 1842 in the ship shipS Swanton wanton and arrived in Nauvoo April 12 1843 She there shared with her hus bus husband husband band and the Saints in their persecutions and etc and in April 1846 left lett Nauvoo and arrived in Salt SaIl Lake City in September 1850 In Bishop David Evanss Evans's company Her husband made a farm over Jordan at the English settlement they buried three children and she ebe h has s left a husband two sons ons and two daughter also a number of grand and great-grandchildren great Her hus hus- husband husband husband band was Counselor to 10 Bishop Hicken- Hicken looper Hicken-looper looper of nine years year in Salt Lake City and in the fall of 1861 was called Balled on the Dixie mission and she and her children accompanied him They arrived in St George on the day of November 1861 have lived in St St George three three thirty years They and Bro h her r Rpbert Robert Thompsons Thompson's families we were e the he first first to arrive of that years year's mission io in ioS S St George GeorKe Jane Fawcett passed away on the of November 1894 being 80 years and 6 days old and she died as asalie asslie she alie had lived a faithful l Saint a kind and affectionate wife and mother never doubted the Gospel for the principles thereof werE were in her heart beart and her joy in all her trials trial and aDd in her children are planted th the same truths troths Funeral services were held in the Tab Tab- Tabernacle Tabernacle Tabernacle at St George on Sunday after after- afternoon afternoon afternoon noon N November ber 11 1894 After the Sac Sac- Sacrament Sacrament Sacrament services Pre President ident McArthur presiding Brother Nephi M Savage read her her biography as pr prepared pared by her hus- hus hus Fawcett showing the most striking incidents of her life Ufe The first speaker was Elder Charles Smith who had bad been acquainted with the family of Brother Fawcett since 1843 and emigrated in the same ship I Elder David H Cannon was the next speaker He said that Sister Fawcett was as a shook shock of corn fully ripe his acq acquaintance with her reached as far back as Nauvoo He had looked upon them as aa a a happy couple they had been honorable in every very walk of life etc Elder Eider A W Ivins spoke very beautifully beautifully fully of the of the dead Sister F will receive in connection with her ber husband all the blessings prom prom- promised promised and aDd what can be better belter than such a aute alife alife ute life as she has lived Her progeny will always be glad when they retrospectively look on the lives of their progenitors Bishop Thomas omas judd Judd said he realized that hat the lives ot of Brother and Sister Faw- Faw Fawcett Fawcett Faw were wre worthy of study and the Saints should be encouraged to pur- pur pursue pur pursue sue Jue the same course He knew what had been said in relation to deceased was true recommending her virtues th though doing her no good is profitable to us-to us us to many Their early experience in the Church submission to the Gospel the assurance of its truths stimulated truths stimulated to good works from the outset ministering to the Elders Eders etc and thankful for their as association Elder McAllister said the course of Brother Fawcett and family has bas been steady no murmuring attending to all their duties in every sphere Brother Fawcett has been a model man in all business entrusted to him The speaker exhorted all the Saints to be faithful and blessed ed all WM FA FAWCETT WILLIAM CASTO William Casto senior president of the first Sixty first quorum of Seventies and a aI resident of the Big Cottonwood ward I Salt Lake county was born at Orleans Orange county Indiana February 10 1816 and died at his residence on the of November 1894 I 1 He was raised as farmer a and gardener in what might be called our Indian country and removed with his father on what was known as 88 the Halfbreed Half breed tract of Iowa territory afterwards organized into Lee county Owing to the Black Black- Blackhawk Blackhawk hawk Black hawk war the family subsequently re- re removed removed re removed moved to Fort Edwards now Warsaw i Ill and In 1839 when the Saints first fir t settled at Commerce William Casto resided resided with his parents parens at a point two and a half miles below He was bap bap- baptized baptized at Commerce June JUDe 22 1839 by Joseph rose and confirmed by Sidney Rigdon He was the first one of the family who joined the Church and Is supposed to be the first person baptized at Nauvoo In the fall of that year he married and sub subsequently located at Nauvoo There he be worked on the temple served as a special policeman and took an active part parL in the defense of the city at the time of ot the When the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum were incarcerated rated in Carthage jail Elder Eider Casto was one of twenty-five twenty men who volunteered ered to risk their lives in them ing-them from prison In the winter of 1844 he was ordained into the quorum of Seventies At the time tome of the exodus in 1846 he sold a house and lot worth for 25 and tor for outside prop prop- property property property erty east of Nauvoo containing 10 acre at attha that tha time very valuable he be never re- re received received re received a cent He had to flee from in the night to escape an unjust warrant issue for his arrest and barely succeeded in getting away with his life lite Arriving at the camp on the Missouri rivet river just as the tie the call caU for the Mormon B Battalion came from the govern govern- government government government ment ment he be enlisted and served as a prIvate in company D on the journey to Santa SantaFe SantaFe Fe from which place he was sent with the Six h detachment under Capt Jame James Brown to Pueblo where they wintered In the spring of 1847 he started for tor Great Salt Lake valley and was one of the twelve men who overtook the Pio Pio- Pioneers Pioneers neen at Green river He arrive arrived in the valley in Orson Oraon Pratts Pratt's advance company and a few days ater rater assisted in getting the firs load of poles out Emigration canyon for the construction of a bowery He also listened to Elder Eider Orson Pratts Pratt's first sermon in the mountains the text city sought out Elder Caso Casio returned to the states stales hat that fall lall from the valley to Fort Laramie he traveled with four or five Ave other men but from Laramie ts ts- Grand Island he and Phineas H Young traveled alone This was quite quit an eventful leaving journey journey Salt Lake with only eleven pounds ot of flour He lie also fell into the hands of the Indians Indian and was taken a prisoner by them He Be Succeeded c however In mak mak- making making making ing the journ journey y and found his family near family near Council Bluffs all well The fol- fol following following fol following lowing year he went to the valley with the mail coach on which occasion he was one of the four men who started from the Missouri river November 16 and arrived in the valley before Christmas after atter traveling four loar hundred miles on foot through snow and ice He returned to the states in 1849 and remained there until the spring of ot 1851 when he started a third time for the valley this time accompanied by his family He settled near the Big Bill Cottonwood creek in which ward he be has resided ever since with the exception of a few years spent on a mission to the Muddy After the settlements on that stream were bro bro- broken broken broken ken up he spent two years at Panguitch after which he returned to his home on the Cottonwood When the nation was misguided by false reports and sent an army to exterminate our people he v I as ason ason a aon on hand band with his flint look lock musket to scare the crows from the head bead ot of Echo canyon He had an unusual degree of personal courage both moral and physical physical cal and integrity from which up to the time of his death he never faltered He leaves a wife four tour sons one daugh- daugh te and a number of grandchildren and many friends who have learned to esteem and respect him on account of the sterling qualities he possessed The funeral services were held in theft Cottonwood meeting house on Monday November 12 1894 Bishop D B Brinton Branton presiding music and singing were furnished for tor the occasion by the ward choir Prayer was offered by Bishop John Neff and the metting melting was addressed by the following Elders Wm Taylor Wm Woo Casper Charles A Harper Woo Wm Hill Amos Neff Jos E Taylor Bishop James C Hamilton Milo An- An Andrews Andrews An Andrews drews Angus Angui M Cannon and Bishop D DB B Brinton The speak speakers erR nearly all all of whom were acquainted with the de- de deceased deceased de deceased ceased in early days bore testimony to the good qualities that it was his ledge ledge to be endowed with FM D |