OLD SOLDIER DEAD Passing of One More Member of Famous Hive Hundred Who Marched Prom From the tile Missouri River to the he Pacific toast Pr t t i 1 I 7 J f s r I I tk I iw h hI I yell 1 j I 18 t w tt 11 i I II 4 ju I JEDUTHAN AVERETT With over ocr increasing It bs bo collies tho sad duty Ihl of ot tho Ilni News Nets to 10 chronicle the panning of at one onue nt or those tho e stalwart tons soils of or toll who participated lit hi tto founding of ot title this state or helped to add adil lustre to 10 Its glory gon The hut hoary honry headed hend d hero to 10 tall fall ouch and leave heave II gun gap In III the rapidly thinning of ot pioneer soldiers was I Averett Averell whoso whale picture above I II As I a II number member of or the Iho Mormon i Ion ho tm endured elmol the tho tortures of ot hun huner r I and peril such uch as a the tongue or ten lIen of nt man rould could never nover depict yet el ho lie attained to 10 the tho ago of at S 8 years He Ite lund had stood In III tho tim community BO so lung and had Hood fo no firmly defying tug tha withering blight of ot time that ho 1 ed n it part of ot herself and Je to ilvo us tie long hong as liS site she Hut But ho toll roll at nt last like lite an nil ancient patriarch full of ot years jonm and of ot honor and surrounded by b four IouI generations generation vf ot his hl offspring Ho flu died at nl his hll homo home In lii 1111 7 1902 hbO after u it brief away own an nl gently M nil the slumber lumber I of ot a ft Ih II 11 lie He was WM born botn In heater huter I fluid field county North Carolina on June I 12 1810 How Interestingly his life Ire links i ithe the tim past to the tho and so en vim Ion an have hafI been tim changes change shi sIne e tho tue day tie hll h horn born It II would stein that thiAt his hulti i wa iaK 1118 In onto one age aile his hl lit in another ills His lII advent was before he tore mo most Inot t of ot the lie mon man who have Contributed much to American history hl lot wore were born Thu Th sage of ot hud had Just retired from tho the White 0 Napoleon had up tip his forced on St Helena and Abraham Lincoln was little moro more than an Infant In tho the back woods of Indiana In nfl In iii II lil youth Mr embraced the faith of ot the he Saints unit und moved to Throughout lie tho dark clack and nuI murderous days surrounding tho lie of ot the tho t Joseph J Smith and his hll devoted brother Hyrum tho the expulsion pul lon train from the tho city at nt the hands of ot the Iho cruel mob time the deceased stood staunch and true and when the tho call tar for MO too OO volunteer volunteers for tor the Mexican war came he responded 1 Join John JoinIng Ing the tho Mormon HilWa on ho hI left loft his friends and started out nUl upon that Im iou Immortal mortal Journey of at 2000 mlle miles the continent The Tho biting and kill killIng hug Ing hi thirst made mude them thom insensible to 10 the tue other oilier perils that surrounded thum and the tho endured on that weary trail troll are only known by those who passed through them When Whon the battalion was disbanded Mr Aver Avor Averett ott ett who was in company D returned to Utah In ho ISM he settled In ami Ill remained thero there ever over after fler 1 Ho Ito as modest n t as he was and he ho settled down to a quiet lined hard working on II the tho farm He hie eight grand children and great TIm Tho funeral was wan held hol l tram tho tuo meeting house on Tur doy last The Tho house was titled filled by time the friend of ot the th I venerable deceased decea ell nod appropriate music was 1 furnished by hy the tue Hawk war of ot Spring Ihle i The pieces rendered varo v ro When hion tho the nn e culls tho the roll the Ihl Memorial Odo Tenting on the New Now Camp Ground and Hark listen to the trumpeters trumpeter The Tho speakers were Bishop Hl hop Joseph Jo eh and Riders J S 5 Thomas Child and anti James K R Hill 1311 At the tue grave the veterans fired a n salute annA and tans wore were Iro pounded and aid ht he spot was dedi dedicated by IJ Lloyd I I