Show MORMON PIONEER IS SUMMONED BY DEATH Funeral services service for tor J John hn KImball Whitney o of Mendon Menden Cache county who vho died yesterday will wUl be held at t 11 o'clock tomorrow morning at the tho Eighteenth ward chapel The casket will be open there from irom 1030 to 11 o'clock and following the services the the body will be r removed moved to Mendon dendon Men den I Idon don where services also will be beheld held before burial Mr Whitney was 83 years ears old He was born September 13 1832 in Kirtland 0 O. and came to Utah in 1848 and had resided in Utah since that date He was the son of ot Newel K Whitney who was presiding bishop of the Mormon church in Utah and an intimate friend of ot Joseph Jo Jo- seph Smith During During the expulsion from Na Nauvoo yoo in 1 1846 46 the Whitney family came out of that cit city two of the bishops bishop's sons Horace and andOrson andOrson andOrson Orson being sent with the original band of or pioneers to the Salt Lake valley in 1847 The bishop remained re reo re- re with his family at Winter Quarters following the two sons the next fall j Tho rho block where the Hotel Utah r now st stands was wh where re his father and his brothers located originally lly and where they reared their families Just north of the hotel is the spot where his father died in 1850 Mr Whitney served as captain under th the late William H. H KImball during the Mr Whitney volunteered vol yolo the day President Young called for volunteers to go to the assistance as as- of at the handcart company under Edward Martin MarUn Jedediah M. M Grant offered a carriage and a fine lne I span apan of horses on condition that young oung Whitney y drive them On the return of the rescuers Salt L Lake ke they l learned arn d of the d death ath of ot Mr Grant the city's first mayor Mr Whitney Is survived by his widow and by his sister Mrs Mar Mary J. J Groo who Is the only survivor of eleven children of or Bishop Whitney and Mrs Elizabeth Ann Whitney |