DEATH OF bl H P l MORRIS bishop ellas elias morris to is dead as aa tift result of the lamentable accident which befell him on monday night last the end came painlessly and peacefully at 36 thursday in the p presence rea en ce of the members of his family who had kept faithful vigil at his bedside for nearly sixty hours hoping hope for his recovery and restora restoration tiou to health his condition became more alarm ing as time wore on once it vols thought that he could not live midnight in fact that was the ua for hours but the vitality with which he was pos continued to manlest itself beyond tin loke expectation of the sorrowing borrowing fawad and friends who constantly burrou him and administered to his want ibbe frequently rallied throughout U ghost the ni fek and was quite lucid at inte intervals ovals hat aut gradually grew weaker as an dissolution approached and finally sank bank into that sleep which had been slowly cree over him for so many hours houm cite D family had in a measure become signed to the inevitable yet their firlit was painful to behold and told in eloquent k terms the love that reigned to their hearts for husband and father the deceased was 73 years of wa fr and in the field of industrial one of the most energetic and bt known of citizens what he be accomplished in a material way la jim exemplified X in substantial structure and enterprises that will stand as monuments to his memory he ww withe oldest of five brothers who come to utah they were ellas elias V richard V john and hugh jt CW these all are dead with the excepts of hugh who resides at malad joea richard V was the father of cat altar treasurer morris and bishop of ther nineteenth waird when he died abt teen years ago biographical A brief sketch of the bishops bw buy W life will be read with great in by his many friends he had it appears intended to write in fact ahva commenced an autobiography but lie life was a very active one and he be ne never finished it what he did write on that subject however is fit herewith rea reproduced he said my parents were born at Talha irne north wales wale they had bad born to them seven sons and five daughters my father was wasa a mason by trade and a contractor in his native country I 1 learned the trade with taw father emigrated to utah in the benr 1852 1 I identified myself with the ter day saints in the year 1849 in the th year 1851 president john taylor paid a visit to my home in north warb he had organized a company of capitalists to purchase machinery for far the manufacture of sugar from beef which he intended to establish in fealt aft lake city he engaged me to bofto utah in the interest it if this sugar obin oate pany I 1 left liverpool tn in charge orv 1 machinery in march 1882 1952 via new bof W leans and up the rivers to port um benworth en worth chibe was the nf to erose erosa the plains arrived 64 zake city in november 1862 1852 the sugar company failed to mature in manufacturing sugar for various reamis imms an there was a company engaged at iron on county to manufacture iron I 1 eve arwa engaged to go and put up their furnaces some considerable iron was ahe but not of sufficient quantity to fake a success and for want of funds jae company failed I 1 returned to salt make city and commenced contract tog lax in the year 1864 put up the eagle for mr jennings and the daug store for mr godbe rn in may 1865 took a mission to wales returned in june 1869 brought A company of saints back with me lie mr ny my return entered into a co with samuel L evans as e erhie under the name of morris ovong upon the opening of the min mill industry in utah we made the of firebrick fire brick and furnace a specialty we put up the armania Kr mania works also smelters shelters sm elters at dy bingham little cottonwood T I 1 east canyon stockton n fork the antorio mill and irIsh pump at ontario mine also alao other ther buildings including the ment lent story of the salt lake tem deseret national bank block Z C L I 1 store mayor littles residence utah university building ce after ator the death of mr evans bvans I 1 car the be business in my own name and quite art an interest in establishing AC in the interest of my edu country such as the tannery te e foundry soap Pd torr utah company state slate quarry utah in 1891 1991 in partnership houlahan griffith contracted to th cut stone atone and brick work of alfy 10 and county building also the ty sewer of salt lake city served as city cou councilor nelor for four Js n and a director in the salt lake 4 ber of commerce one term V in JL a series eries of somewhat more extended notes appears the fol earing when I 1 commenced to learn the fikac of builder and contractor under Tf father atner I 1 was 14 years of age when T arg old I 1 went to liverpool and V eted on the st george town hall her a tv few years I 1 returned to wales ry ny father had several contracts bis hands and while at work on a F scaffold on a three story i ott on the top story the scaffold 1 ws e thay and I 1 fell 35 36 feet onto the ment ent those who witnessed my fall 1 out that I 1 was killed but to their L astonishment as well as to my 4 wn as 6 soon as I 1 was raised up I 1 vwe 4 1 I could walk without pain arid and in sen minutes I 1 went up tte the ladder C told old mn the e third story and made mace a new was soon after this that I 1 was waa poel by president john taylor who SE filling ung a mission to prince prance but ateo was then on a visit to wales to dawe sadie to utah with beet sugar machin r ye we set get sail ball from liverpool where was manufactured in ach 1852 after seven weeks of sall gail r we landed at new orleans took river boat back to port fort leaven arth from m there I 1 was sent to coun to 0 get the company wagons which to be loaded down with mawe made ready for our long and lw journey over the rocky moun sea EL and ad started from thle tm point on the B of july the day we the r ridge we camped at willow aar the teat last crossing of sweet mitar we made camp bout about 9 L it van wa very verr dark and snow now tel adwa A I 1 I 1 we had hardly any ora provisions visions in without IB ithe dar vw we found a foot font of nf acton and acid yom very little in cal were oven alven tov do de ln aw living in to go sad get the cattle in we found that quite a percentage of the poorest had laid down in the brush to rest for the last time of those that were found dead we cut out their tongues and hearts which we cooked and thus satisfied our oui own hunger when we gathered in all the other cattle we could find we had just about enough left to take the fam ily wagons to green river at the same time the captain had sent a messenger to green river post and brought sixteen head of cattle on the first night from green river they took a stampede and were either lost or stolen by the indians when we left camp with the families we left six single men and supplies such as shotguns rifles and ammunition to hunt hum the lost cattle as well as game for their own support as we had no provisions to leave with them the second day they found the cattle they followed us the next day As they were all strangers to the road and our tracks were covered with snow they took the wrong road by mistake and when they struck the green river they found their mistake they sent a messenger down athey the river to our camp for provisions as they were near the point of starving As we had secured provisions at the trading post we were able to supply them in two days more our broken camp was again united for our journey while here president A 0 smoot came to our rescue with teams and provisions sent out by president young while mr smoot stood at our camp fire with our wretched condit condition iop he noticed three large white letters painted on the boilers D M C ue he asked us the meaning of the letters letter but received no answer he said I 1 if you dont know I 1 think I 1 can tell you D M C in this case means i D dam am miserable company and we agreed that he was correct we arrived in salt lake city about I 1 november 10 after a few days we started with the sugar machinery for provo which was selected for the site of the plant it took us three weeks to reach provo from salt lake when en we got to provo the camp was dissolved and the machinery turned over to the church that winter I 1 went around chopping wood for a living on the ath of april 1853 brother william nuttall and myself started on foot to attend the conference and witness the laying of the corner stone of the temple at salt lake city on the night af the ath we slept in a dugout dug dyg out at the point or of the mountain and walked to the city early in the morning in time for conference at conference 1 71 was selected to go to iron county to work on the iron works built a furnace there after the failure of the iron works I 1 moved to salt lake labored on the temple and laid the southeast corner stone where we commenced the cut stone work this stone was about I 1 feet square carved as a box in which was deposited several of the church works covered with a lid of ceni cement ent the deceased had been a high councilor for nearly twenty years having been set apart to that office april 17 1878 on sept 12 1888 1898 he was set apart as president of the high priests quorum of the salt lake stake and filled that position up to the time of his big death on the reorganization of the fifteenth ecclesiastical ward may mav 11 1890 1800 he was chosen to succeed elder joseph pollard who died a short time before that office elder words morris also filled up to the time of tela bin der demise decalve alve in 1865 1396 he wets waa elected a member of the constitutional convention which drafted the organic taw law ef coghe the state of utah in IBM 1889 on an the of the utah company compan mr r morris wan made preal deot aad 04 held the watce continuously up to the prest fie waa greatly interested in eisteddfod matters and was treasurer and director of the association and in the active discharge of his duty on monday when he met with the unfortunate accident that resulted in his death