Show SIDNEY RIGDON SALT LAKE CITY may 27 1896 referring to the query in tuesday evenings evening fe regarding sidney rigdon bigdon permit we me to any aay that while laboring in the eastern states during the past year all aa a missionary in connection with elder samuel W arua aras I 1 had the pleasure of meeting a granason gran daon of sidney rigdon a gentle man high in Juji judicial cial circles in the state of now new york in conversation with him we found that be lived a number of years with his hia grandfather that after leaving nauvoo i sidney rigdon bigdon lived for a short time lime in cuba penn locating on a farm it if my memory serves me right not be jog successful there he moved to the town of friendship N Y where lie he remained up to the time of his hie death which occurred in 1876 go bo far as he knew grandfather Rig bigdonas donas he be called him took no DO active interest in any religious body certainly be never heard board him speak of the mormon religion either for or against he was consid ored ered a visionary man and thought la in his bis younger days that he must have been a powerful speaker at times he would write short speeches spee chee for some of the politicians he contented himself around the little town he called home as 89 never but once after locating to lu friendship was waa he known to go further farther than five or six miles away and that was to philadelphia concerning some book which was expected to come out returning at the end and of a week be made no reference to his hie trip during the be lost last six or seven years of his life he wrote a great deals deal estly using from seven to nine pages of at foolscap ool fool soap paper but asto as to the subject matter no one know knew anything as at bis death all the manuscripts were burned the family not considering them of any real worth today they regret their haste baste in thus destroying them his sons son identify veis with no particular parti oulAr body of worshipers but usually investigate ADY new dew doctrine or system that comes before them the grandson remarked toua to us that it was fortunate that the leader ship of the church tell fell upon the late brigham young aud and not oo on bigdon bigdonas Rig donas tie lie would have been unequal to the occasion ocoa sion of founding the state of utah and building up the church financially as did brigham young toung possibly some items in the shove may be of interest to those who were associated more than half a century ago with the then counselor to toha the prophet joseph smith and it if not to them then at least to younger people that they may know the end of one who devoted so many years of his life it in establishing the great latter jatter day wa work rk and then fell back ARTHU 8 F |