Show ARCHIBALD HILL DIES I 7 Well Known wn Utah Pioneer Passes Away I t LEFT c A LARGE FAMILY o WAS 84 YEARS OLD LD AT HIS DB DE DEMISE MISE I Came Out Here Eer In 1847 With the tie First Company That Left Lt Winter Win Winter ter Quarters Quarter Arrived In 1847 and peat the th Balance Balano of o His Life In Salt Lake Lk 4 t One more m mo of those hardy hard pioneers who made their tj way vay through all aU the bard hard hardships ships hips of t f crossing the continent to build Lot for themselves th s a city among the mountains 11 passed d to the great beyond Archi tad laid N Hill is 1 the last IaaC ta of ot them to go co Weakened Vai ed i and debilitated by the th te tiel of or age eg ag he be at his home short bort shortly I ly lr before U yesterday y morning Mr lull Hill was wa M 4 years Year of age a e at the time dine of ot his and h he spit spent the he last fifty finy two y yrs ars of or his life in the he ne helped to found and then thea to build buthi to its Iti T f I p Archibald mn present pent i ent strength and beauty AH AU the trials triEs of pioneer pin C life Tife were we known to him td nd as the tb years grew on and he saw w trie tn I fl fruits of his hia hl labors blossom end flourish he spent the last la t years of or lila his life wIth i a consciousness of at having done his 1119 part in the work of the west went Born In Scotland lie He was wag wa l born orn In Scotland lend An A Aig Ii g 20 t lidI When h toe he was wa but 3 yean dd in HIS nis his parents moved to Canada where ha ho passed into early manhood In 1842 he be left Jn Canada going to Nauvoo via Chi Chiago ago iio Wb n he be passed through Chicago it was wan but a b t trading post peeL and the thu two twe t buildings that gave it the dignity of ot that were a cabin and a saw milL At Nauvoo he became affiliated with the th Mormon church and be ho worked w faithfully with ith those thione who clung to the same ne tenets df cf faith to further too toe teachings of Joseph mith lm I t h When Whom the companies were formed ti 1 cross tho thu plains lainS for a place to plant Xion Zi in n he was then them ready reddy to do hi his share hiThe The company in which he had located Wt Winter Quarters the latter part of June Tune 1847 and the journey journe was a mer one O lasting fhi days lila His Isabella Hood Hill having h died dIf March 20 of yf that year he be loft toft his three children with relatives in Winter Quart Quarters ers 5 When hen he ho arrived in Salt Laio Lai Ici Sept JT 7 he set to tl work in company with I avid Wilkie to whip w logs for build buildIng I Ing 11 purposes and erected a house for tor one of cf 1 K Whitneys families famille Took Up Agriculture culture Mr rr Hill took up agriculture as a pur put pursuit suit FUjI plowing his first three acres of wheat wh t tor or on th the plat pint where the ibe Seventeenth ward n if house now stands The following July J h ht harvested the crop which was waa an I abundant one ne using a cradle that he had ha l made himself him f lf and threshing it with halls on at ar old wagon w on cover It WAS wu in lit the wind ond and taken to the theold old 1 1 mill nt et the mouth of City Cit Creek canyon The bread that was made ma from front that t b crop of J wheat was often fh spoken of or I by Mr Hill as s the sweetest sweet w he ever ate In 1 n August itIS IMS he accompanied about thirty teams from m Salt Bait Lake back to Kouth Pass to tf meet President Brigham Young Y who woo was bringing to Utah a large I company y of settlers Mr Hill took with i him i im on that t occasion n a i large ripe r Utah I grown watermelon Which he gave to President 1 Young Y It w the first that I the tho th pre had seen from Utah and he hett herte tie rte tt it with ith evident eviden enjoyment nt In Charge of Tithing Office I For fourteen n years Mr Kr Hill had charge charger r if f the tha general tithing office effie in Salt Lake end managed the affairs with high bus bud business ness W tact arid and ability After that he went we Into merchandising at which he was quite l I The deceased leaves leaven eighteen children fir t grandchildren and thirty JH His Hb second wife is Ia I living liing The funeral will be held in i Yu ward meeting house i Thursday day at ht 11 in the too morning The Th rIh remains can be viewed at his bs late Kate ron res resilience 73 3 North Fifth West teSt street on or Thursday from 9 to 1030 10 a m in d I cue are invited to attend |