Show Elder Edgar D Simmons Among the bit letters written by Ihe Uc Elder Edgar D SImon rerc two To hU brother Joseph F Simmon one dated December 1559 and the other January lot 1593 He was acting in the capacity of President of the Aiutab DUtnct Turkey and engaged in preaching the Gospel wherever he could get opportunity In his letters he refers t the crcmtnc which are a sedated with missionary labors in that land and the severe hardships necessary to endure but evinced spirit of determination and ppirt detrmlnaUon courage In reply to an inquiry by President HiuUc regarding his feelings he stated that he considered I a matter of gt importance to remain faith imloioe fully at his The ful hi post weather at the time of writing was quite cold and hcfelttbeeffects but ulUiulKh was not then impaired He ex J cted soon t 0 transferred to Slvas Xo Informatiun has been r teived of his sickness further than thithedied of smallpox Joliowr log IsatmeTtrelei of Brother Sim moni lifu LJsar Dilworth Simmons son of Jo ejJi Marcellus Simmons and his wife Rachel Emma Woolley eldest diajhterof the latcIiishO > Edwin D Woolley was born April 2 t 1SJ3 it Salt Lake City Utftii Territory Terri-tory lie started a cash boy In Walker Dr0 store In the fell of 153 being then ten years of ae and worked his way up from that t the ion of teller in the Union Xational Hank and he was occupy lug tliis place when called t go on hIs mission In his Mxtccntli hi miol hi Hxtenth year he was employed by the above r He never missed a day on account of HckrH > s in fact he was never seriously seri-ously ill ia his life having sro strictly temperate in all tin from his youth up During the whole of the sixteen yeare and up t the time of his departure for Turkey Edgar helped to support his widowed help his father having died Feb 14th 1672 The deceased was ordained Deacon and set apart as President of the Deacons cons quorum iu the Twentieth Ward February IStli 1SS7 and held this office until he was alan al-an Elder on January2Sth 1SS9 his faithfulness in the lesser Priesthood havingiwcn r marked that Bishop Katnnry without solicitation IonmfY wihout any solcltUon ruin Edgar recommended him to the later office He was also one of the directors of the Twentieth Ward Institute He was ordained a Seventy just before his 8enty bCor departure depar-ture on 1 mission April 20th 16S9 His mother says that n one knows his worth a well a the does and that she told him on the eve of his departure for deprre liii comfort and consolation that In all his life he had leer caused her one moments uneasiness + |