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Show Abraham Hoagland Cannon. Another of the leading men of Israel has been called to the spirit world, and the community is clothed in mourning because of the death of one of its most active and prominent members. On Sunday morning, July 19,1896, at fifteen minutes after 5 o'clock, the spirit of Elder Abraham H. Cannon, one of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, quietly passed from his mortal tabernacle. tab-ernacle. During the severe illness which preceded Elder Cannon's deth all that faith and love and skill, as exercised by mortal beings, could do, was done; but these availed not to retain here the noble apirt of one who, in the brief span of his existence exis-tence on earth, had entwined his life as few men do in the closest confix dence and deepest affections of his people. Mowing their heads 'neatb the weight of a great sorrow, a grief stricken community acknowledge the hand of God in their bereavement, bereave-ment, and humbly say, Father, Thy will be done." Abraham Hoagland Cannon was the son of George Q. and Elizabeth Hoagland Cannon. He was born in Salt Lake City March 12, 1859. his father being absent on a mission to the eastern states at that time. |