Show A FATHER IN 1 j ISRAEL DEAD thousands of our readers will wiil even at this late date learn for the ersi eril time of the death father pet Vet he lived 1 life ilfe lif ewas wa s respected by all who knew him um and died la iff ripe old age y a saint of j tue tae most moat high we feel that no mortal pen need seed paal daal peal hid bid praise hib his works praise him the yli following communication from the historian office deserves a place in ii the NEWS david was born july 29 1701 in weathersfield Weathers field fild windsor county vermont received his diploma frota harmony lodge no 2 Cincin Cincinnat tl aa as a master mason oct 4 1820 was baetzel I 1 by elder isaac higbee 1832 went with his ta family m 1 I t to 0 jackson county missouri in nov 1832 bou bought ht igo acres of land and settled on the big bi au bine blue ea 6 miles west of independence nov 8 1 was driven from his home which was burnt by an armed mob led by gen moses wilson and 11 agh brazel Braxel Braze lie lle a lawyer Us ilg with six bix other outer merl men who were not sick biek to gether with 84 women children and sick men went south to van buren county and took shelter in a cave from a severe snow storm they were driven from this thia retreat on the of december he lived in clay county three years and then removed to caldwell county 1 t where bere he be bought more government land and again built a house in ira the fall of 1838 he with 60 others was put in richmond jail for belled everal several weeks and on january 19 1839 was expelled from the state of missouri under th the exterminating order of lilburn W boggs beggs ile he went to nauvoo in 1839 was one of the twelve high council left nauvoo may 20 1816 arrived at council bluffs on the first of july and enlisted in the mormon battalion of the U S army array went to santa fe new Al mexico exico where abere he was appointed comal commissary sary sergeant and continued in that office to los angeloa kangelos california received an honorable I 1 discharge in july and came to great salt lake city in september 1848 was a eie Ein in the provisional state of deseret commencing dec 8 1849 was chaplain irr iff the house i of representatives during the sessions of 1857 ISM bi 58 and 1860 1 ile he presided over the high priests 2 quorum from october 8 1853 to april 7 1856 1836 ile he was ivaa bishop or of the loth ward in great salt lake city from april 1849 to the day of his death on december 31 1863 he lived and died a good man inan firm in ith the faith and was beloved by all who knew him |