Show LAST OF THE THREE PIONEERS OF BOUNTIFUL PASSES AWAY CROSSED THE PLAINS SIX TIMES ft eteen YEARS DEVOTED TO missionary LABORS TRAVELING OVER MILES FATHER OF FIFTY FIVE CHILDREN peregrine sessions last of the three pioneer settlers of bountiful passed away of old ago age last saturday june 3 1893 after a an n illness of many months peregrine was the son eon of david and patty sessions the oldest of a family of eight children and born june 15 1814 in newry oxford co maine hh early lite life was spent working on a farm of acres with his father attending the district school during the winter sept 21 1834 he married julia ann kilgore of ef newry maine was baptized into the church by the first bishop ou oil the lath of sept 1835 june ath 1837 he and 11 10 1 ia S 2 4 W n I 1 W PEREGRINE SESSIONS his s family started for kirtland here they ey arrived in november of the same me year later the family moved to i farbest with the saints and after the fam ilys arrival there be made a trip to maine blaine to attend to some business feb 1839 he be was ordained a seventy by brigham young and heber C kimball and on the of june of that year he went on his first mission which was to the state of maine being absent from home until june of the following year in april 1842 he started on his second mission to maine blaine arriving home again in june 1844 ile he served as josephs and brighams Brig hams body guard for three years lost his first wife jan 5 1845 left farbest and moved to nauvoo and in feb 1846 1816 left the last named city for winter quarters finding his father and mother in council bluffs he built a log house in winter quarters and dur ing the winter made a trip back to missouri after provisions also went out on several hunting expeditions to supply the camp with meat and honey which he was very successful in getting june ath 1847 a traveling outfit was secured ec and the great journey across the plains commenced in the way of provisions three hundred pounds of flour was allowed each individual there were wagons in the entire train the first eighty seven being in his bis charge P G sessions and P I 1 P pratt traveled ahead of the company to select camping places suitable places to ford rivers etc he arrived in the valley of the great salt lake on the of sept of the same year he made the first wagon 0 track north bortl of the hot springs lo locating eating in bountiful the same fall of his arrival here the following spring 1848 be bowed sowed w e d seven acres of wheat and so planted la n ted fourteen acres of corn but later that year for about seven weeks the crickets threatened their crops but still they had a good harvest barvest wheat being as high as 10 per bushel this year he built ballf tho the first house that was ever erected in this town which was later named after him on oct 1849 started back east cast after his sister sylva return ing ng to utah on the 26 of june 1850 with a company of men who were arc on their way to california to lunt hunt gold these miners left considerable iid sid erable money with wilh him for provisions which they bought to supply them ou on their journey flour then being 50 per cwt cat in 1851 he built his large adebie house sept 1852 left on a mission to england edgland returning three years I 1 later ater the year of fifty seven was spent in nevada on a mis mission in sixty nine and seventy two he went to maine mainc doing missionary mission work and gathering genealogies much of the latter part of his life was spent in laboring in the temples for the dead and much means was used for that purpose six wives and forty one children are left to mourn his loss two w wives ives and fourteen children having pre ceedee him FUNERAL SERVICES funeral services were held in the tabernacle on tuesday june ath where an unusually large audie audience nee compo composed red of old and young assembled to show their last respects to the highly esteemed pioneer and leader david stoker E B tripp apostle john henry smith and frest pre st joseph F smith were the speakers |