Show SISTER HELEN MAR WHITNEY the death of one ojue of the best belt known ana most moat estimable women of the church sister helen mar whitney occurred yesterday iday nov 15 1896 1895 at ten minutes past 2 p m at ai her ber residence in abit city at ber bedside were several of her immediate family anu ano as the spirit left its earthly tabernacle she rallied raised her ber eyes with a look of surprise as though the room was lull full of people and no doubt her was waa there all that love jove and faith and skill could do has been clone in the kenderest ten derest and best beet manner for sister whitney at ai d for her there in ia no cause to mourn she has had entered into the rest reet prepared tor for uie the faithful which she ebe so BO much de d 0 aired although it was hard for her t to 0 think of parting from ber bar dearly beloved ones oner who clurid to her no fondly sister whitney was the wife ol of horace K whitney one of the pioneers Pl orleere of 1847 who departed thin life nov ov twelve yearn ago helen elan war mar was waa the eldest daughter ol of t the e late president heber haber 0 ald aid slater sister fiats kim kimball ball and was born in mindon munroe monroe county state of now new york august auguet Asi helen lilia was in copany respects very like her ber illustrious 11 father bar so BO much so BO that mat it has bus been said arb of her er by one of ble bla intimate associate a that oat she was waa hla his beet living jiving depre ap bister was wae considered by ajl who know knew her bar a remarkably strong obar 10 facter acter and certainly she ebe was a bla big figure in ID abe church her parents were among the first to rec receive elive the gospel in the state of now new york having baving been baptized in april 1882 1832 and removed to kirtland lu in the aji of 1888 this journey sister helen remembered very well and her with elizabeth Elizabe tib and valate daughters ot of Brig liam young whose mother had diec ano and mr ad kemball cimball hau baa charge of abe two little their father also alao traveling with ith reber heber C kimball to kirtland slater sister whitney also alao remembered the terrible persecutions in missouri where she aae was wag baptized when a child she also ajeo listi notly remembered the removal from that state to commerce alter after wards warda nauvoo in the state of at illinois during her ber she ebe was almost constantly associated with joseph smith the prophet Pr phet brid nd ilia his suc successor censor brigham young slid and her of two great meo men prophets prophet seers peers and revel revelator revelators atom were always interesting to those with whom she abe converted conversed it was wasa a pleasure and matle faction to her to bear test tecetl MODY of the divine mission of those two great leaders leaden I 1 helen M kimball kemball was united in marriage to horace K X son goo of bishop newel K whitney on feb 3rd ard 1846 in ID the nauvoo temple just juet previous to the remarkable exodus of the latter day saints from that beautiful city in the dead of winter in which pilgrimage they shared the trials and ana hardships incident to the journey the next spring 1847 her husband was waa called to go wita the pioneers and during his absence arid and that of her father also a little daughter was born and died horace aud and helen whitney came to the valley the following ear in ih heber haber C kimballs Kimb Kim alPs balls company which followed brigham youngs young leavin ff winter quarters Qu artera on may and arriving here early in october on the abe plains a fine son eon was born to them ario ano wed died when live five days old and was buried by the wayside this grief added to the death deach of her first born was too much tor for the young mother and she ebe was not only very III tut lut her reason was over thrown her mother was also very slob sick at the same time and it seemed that only brother Kimb alPs mighty faith kept them alive after arriving in the valley brother and sleter sister whit ney made their home om OB the baute bank of city creek just east of where the temple stands where their heir other children were born bord and where several of them passed away sister bister whitney kiss has borne eleven children four sons and seven daughters of these two and live five daughters grew to mao man and womanhood one son and four daughters remain orson P F whitney her oldest eldest son pon well and favorably known as preacher poet and ble historian Is bishop of the eighteenth ward in this city and occupies a chair of his tory lory and theology in the Brig brigham barn young college in logan volumes might be written of sister her life and experiences in ila the church she was a woman of noble character ob and attributes and possessed of the most true womanly virtues and in abundance that beautiful charity that no evil and her compassion for the weak and string partook of the sublime nature she was a true heroine in every sense af the word her bet sterling integrity to the gospel bad her zeal in the cause of 01 truth were often strikingly exhibited her writings were forcible and telling and she bail bad a natural gift for heroic composition her reminiscences ot of nauvoo and the early dayi in the church were pa published blushed in the domans womans exponent covering a number lf if years aa and were greatly appreciated by the sisters she ab also wrote occasional articles lor for the NEWS when any particular subject fired her on en for the people and the cause causi she loved she pose possessed essed great men bality and spirituality and was intensely in tenee poetical prophetic and patriotic in her nature and excelled most women in certain lines of writing she was we author of two bootee bookie upon the subject of plural marriage entitled plural flural marriage as aa taught by josephr joseph the prophet and whyde why we practice plural warris marriage ge 11 II I these books have gooe gone the world over and are often inquired for by strangers who were always delighted to see and COD converge veree with the woman wema a who wrote them sister whitney was for many years jearo prominent in ID the relief society and her ber testimonies to the truth troth will never be forgotten she abe discharged every duty and responsibility placed upon her ber whether temporal or spiritual faithfully she was wag a devoted christian mother and trained ber bar children in the abe love of the gospel her love for her ber friends was true as steel atee whether in prosperity or adversity we who remain are bereaved indeed but we know she was beloved of god and therefore we may aay thy will be done E B W |