Show OBITUARY NOTES JAMES JOHN on the 3rd ard day of june 1896 elder james J walker of syracuse davis davia 0 only Utah ULah passed away after a linger lauger ug n and painful illness that lasted nearly nearly a 11 year brights brighta disease and a cancerous 9 growth crowth on the bowels caused his hia death the deceased was a son ot of thomas and mary ann walker and was born at sheerness kent england july 26 1830 in 1849 he be united himself with the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and four years later came to utah reaching salt lake on october 11 1853 he was a member of the party who went upon the famous salmon river expedition in 1856 1850 prior to thie on nov he was maxy mary ann cox who survives survive him thise sons and four daughters blessed their union A second wife bore him seven boys and one girl he leaves fourteen children and thirty grandchild grand chil dren brother walker was an honest man and d a faithful member of the church until hir hia j death he ele reared bin bia family in the fear and admonition of the lord and it was his bin aim in life to be a useful citizen he held many positions of honor and trust in the church and under the government and was held in high esteem universally among those who knew him JOHN P F CHIDESTER ST january 1887 I 1 take the present opportunity of announcing noun cing the death ot of john P chidester esq Es Y which occurred on the t tenh day 01 of this month at washington city washington county utah the cause of his hia death was organic h LIAO hut ma at disease from which he sufferer aw freight weeks untold pain and diatra he was the father of a large farabi family V aa and M had them all with him at the time milne of ofhie bk 1 death among them was waa job john n B P ab OMA eater of panguitch ex senator or of A ake state legislature the deceased ism born december 1831 at field township I 1 monroe county mih his life has haa been one of useful and public service to his fellow mn B was always on hand to assist the nos his first public work was berf pe rf when a little boyon boy on the nauvoo tema berniss and in the spring of 1846 he andas I 1 father ran a ferry boat and ferried ats the saints across the mississippi rie t nauvoo soon after this he be haimi a mechanic and assisted to finold a horsepower horse power grist mill at WIIL ter quarters in 1847 in the as year 1850 he emigrated to salt lake leacea wa ley and in the fall of 1851 was married tw susan foy soon after he moved dafft AM to palmyra near where spanish ISM city now Is IB he took an active part defending the settlers bottlers in the indian ww W was waa one of the first to move into won fork and build up that place tn itla baft he be moved with his family to park and remained there nl the year 1859 when he moved to hoiass now lake city and went to rak spinning wheels which were u zae extensively in those days in I 1 71 was waa called by president young to m 4 to dixie he dand reached grapevine ra springs brings on christmas r atmas daiss washington ashin ton washington as ington count county jan 1st ast 1863 where here he has live lived t that at ti time e until his is death deat he eha haa delss number of public positions and I 1 in all has given the beat satisfaction aja was the head mechanic under A A biot harmon in building the washa cashins factory lac tory superintended super intended the scaffolding the st george temple f from I 1 rom the 0 men cement of that building until it iti finished he was also one of the fa foreia workmen on the new canal and IM rime dam in the rio Virg enthat furnish furni aho water for the washington and st on fields it was in the tunnels of abi that he brought on the heart t terms r which ended in his death he has low lak zealously to obtain a record of his fa fw and has 1500 names in his record of whom he has done the work for record he turned over to his oldest john F with the admonition to the work as soon as possible DAVID rana PI 7 |