Show PIONEER WOMAN GONE there were laid to rest reet yesterday august 7 in the quiet little cemetery at pleasant grove utah county the remains of a most moet estimable and bo be loved woman whose lite life has baa covered a remarkable period of the worlds world a history and whose loui vidual experiences have been la in many instances instance of a most character obar acter further especial interest on the part of the peo pie of utah centers iu in her career from the fact that she has been associated with them from the beginning of settlement here bore and for many years previously with the people that furnished the pioneers fur for about sixty three years her bar cothas lot has been cast with the mormon people she has baa been an active participant in the trials and hardships they were cow corn belled to endure in the darket darkest periods of their history she phe was herself a pioneer of 1847 in utah and in all the he scenes she bas cassou through this humble bumble unassuming do de woman hae ba cloo declared lared her bar knowledge of the divine power in what is called ulam that it is the goepel of christ too toe venerable mother in israel whose body was followed to to the grove grave yesterday was sister bister margaret M foutz aged nicety anve years sister bister louiza career la Is briefly ek sketched etched iu in an obituary in another part of the he NEWS she bhe wed was born in 1801 and her life covers the events of the most progressive century the world has noted although left iett an orphan when a mere babe deprived of both parents he who to is 11 a father to the fatherless and to whose voice she gave beed led her through a long lite life in uprightness to an honored old age to jay her body down in peace with the brightest hopes for the future life from 1834 she having joined the church her lot was cast with the saints balms often to in the most perilous placer she was with them in missouri in illinois and came with the companies immediately following ol lowing the pioneers reaching we the salt lake valley in 1847 and remain tug lug I 1 iu a utah since then lost last year she was a prominent fleure figure at the old folks gathering gat nering in pleasant grove for a number of years year previous to her death she has been at the head of five living generation and at the time of her demise had bad direct descendants one of the most thrilling experiences of her li ii e although she passed through many of an extremely trying er was that at haune mill missouri in october 1838 tots tola was waa one ot 0 ane be waso serea oi 01 latter day saints by and the he ozo 01 e where her ous bus t tand and was severely wounded and ill tre reatea rea ateo tec where a revolutionary soldier mcbride was backed to with a corno utter where two of the victims were boys 9 and 10 years year of axe age and where other and nameless atrocities were committed by the mob here is ie what slater sister foutz says of that occurrence f this we did without taking anything to keep us warm and had bad we been fleeing from the scalping knife of the indian we would not have made greater haste and as we ran irom from house to house gathering as we went we finally numbered about forty or fifty women and children we ran about three miles into the woods and there huddled together spreading what few blankets or we chanced to have on the ground for the children and there we remained until 2 the next morning before we heard anything of the result of the firing at the mill who cat can imagine our leel feel inge during this dreadful suspense and when the news did come oh what terrible newel news I 1 fathers brothers and sons inhumanly butchered we now took up the line of march for forborne home alas alaa what a homel home who would we find there and now with our minds rail full of the most fearful forebodings bo dings we retraced those three long dreary miles As we were returning I 1 saw a brother myers who had been shot through his bis body in that dreadful he crawled on his hands bands and knees about two miles to his home after I 1 arrived at my house with my children I 1 hastily made a fire to warm them and then started for the will mill about one mile distant my children would not remain at home saying if father and mother are going to be killed we want to be with hem it was about 7 in the morning when we arrived at the mill in the first house bouse I 1 came to there were three dead men one a brother mc bride Brid ewas was a terrible sight eight to behold having been cut and chopped and horribly mangled with a corn cutter I 1 hurried ov on looking for my husband and found him in an old house covered with some rubbish my husband bad been shot in the thigh I 1 rendered him all the assistance I 1 could but it was evening be fore I 1 could get him home I 1 saw thirteen more dead bodies at the shop and witnessed the beginning of the burial which consisted in throwing the bodies into an old dry well ob what a change one short day had brought brough tl here were my friends dead and dying one in particular nicular asked me to give him relief by aking a hammer and knocking his braina out so go great was his agony and we know knew not what moment our enemies would be upon us again and all this not because we had broken any law on the contrary it was a part of our religion to keep the laws of the land in the evening brother evans got a team and conveyed my husband to his house carried him in and placed him on a bed I 1 then had to attend him alone without doctor or any one to tell me what to do six daya days afterwards 1 I with my husbands assistance extracted the bullet it being buried deep in the thick part of the thigh and flattened like a knife during the first ten en days daya bobbera mob bera bere with blackened faces came every day cursing and swearing like demons from the pit and declaring that they would kill that dd old mormon preacher br eicher 11 those who were associated with the deep trials aad bercio bercic faithfulness at the establishment of the church and ot at the settlement ol of these mo mountain valer are dropping from the ranks of the people weary in bod body y troma the long and gallant struggle but the sublime eu blime unwavering herklum they displayed in the cause they had es ee plumed and to in which they triumphed remains la in his history hi etory toTy 1 R shining exam example pie toabe to the youth of zion the courage and devotion of woman no lead than tuat lost of mn man stands forth io in in the ichord of the saints to load lead succeed ilag generations to like fidelity in a glorious cause the tahe true rue and tried veterans are passing to the other side to receive the reward of their faithfulness even to death may the generations generation that succeed them bud aud now are active to in lifes life s battle have a record as bright and unsullied us sullied at the close cloae of their mortal day as do their fathers and mothers mother |