Show GOOD WOMAN WOMA LAID TO RESTI RESTIe I e Some history in the LIfe of Mr Mrs s sIar Mary Ana Merrill Pratt ONE OF THE OLD PIONEERS She a Veteran Who AI AIso so sG italic Ja c a 11 Name for is The bc tho passin ot of Airs Irs Mary Mar Ann nn week another was to t her long n relit t do I easell all truly n come om with her husband the tho late Apo pos tie lie e Pratt Prall front Nauvoo III when whence o the mho Sa lilts from exiled In tiro tho winter ot of 1846 1810 to the tho river where here Ih eh while her husband husbands U s nabla hand IlInd or of path lnders ot of 1841 to tho Salt Lake x MARY ANN MERRILL PRATT It th ot of 1118 Pratt to toI I er em It h r J blind band upon ids his return from tin 11 Im g trip trill across tI time plums to And ml hm return to 10 the valleys of the this wits WIS lint to be beho ho hew ICI for rOl some somo time Apostle Pratt d to 10 Winter but hul It was WIH for the purpose of It inking meals to In I to In m ml 1 s r ot of the tte I II Ire hl having been een for nut mt Work k h by President faun Young lIc left I wit tf I a th 1 ot i ot nr hili h Is l Y ors th the grounds until t ht II return from Mrs Pratt Ihl ai n ted w with her hus to th the t l ot of tho Great Salt I Lake alo ar arun un h i re m el 1861 she Ih the mother ot of five children Iu Pratt Airs 1111 l 1 wife lIto ot of Joseph tI l Eldredge t r p I deceased ti II II d e or amUel 1 toll 1 III 1 h mo II v lIr d r of Joseph t II anti Ito I M 1 nil of this city wind t hom II he has hOR hUll had 33 13 did 29 ron Mrs Mitt Mar Urn M r Pratt was born June 2 iSH 1819 at Southold I I 1 N y 01 I PI rel 12 1 1903 aged ed 84 scars G infra and H a days das dashe The he try Alary ot of the life life ot of AIs Pratt Pratts s 1 be hest t told lold perhaps In III the tho following Ino h 1111 hy by her I f in r nn than with her I 1 e 01 l and sent Hont to Jell Gen Merrill d Pit Ill tune Iune 8 1885 anti hi It was wa mead nl at the tho funeral on Mon day vav My f 1 Valentino Afen III nod his we o potters I bunted I th the first sugar oa oat molds for making Olaf sugar made ot of cia clay for forI hl hi I h Ib t im t rot cot tho iho patent right nod lured thousand dollars nth 1110 tho they to 10 the tho New York 1011 kt b by II a vessel l R they carried on III at Norwall III I hl h w ns pleasantly amI hLl hat In a lith Iel mew I ot t f tit the d t I II us It ebbed hod and flowed c I In lit at high hh mink 1 tP 11 a nu e w reek t They unloaded 11 the tho IV ser nt tho Ih hl llian II lm r Ih I tho v I hn I nt at tilt the left r f th II In tho Will of 1812 II II t Whig and wan 11 al win Oil t ot ct r i n I ul to 10 1 became a menthor ot of the hurch of 0 or of In III February 1812 nt Norwalk Coup Vonn I 1 emigrated to III Iu August where J 1 married Pro Prot Pratt who v s I to onn or of mho tho Pw or of the Church The rho III latter Iter pm t ot of 1111 I 1 was Willi exiled from I hall had to leave my III homo with the rest or of time Iho people le to seep 1 n homo inno t among limn tho 1 In III the tho rm for m mand and ns nn my forefathers and mothers lIell from so dill did I that here In III I n t to t tn 1 u I g t l m e eair IIII air It d freedom freedman of thought mid action and enjoy that thal teUn feeling that through my I Inherited h by my blood who rather privations away from the land ot of their birth than with lIh the unjust But our hue tol ul our oum tn anti 1110 to 10 Us li into Inlo bondage hondal depriving us liS ot of I our political and religious tights by in III 41 r tS v i I I HARRY n D MERRILL from IL a Photograph faker llen When he Was SO 80 Years or of Ago Age cooing engross to 10 enact anti and nano ex expOSI post facto hi WI to In the constitutional con of oC our country countr Out ot of II a family ot of nine III six brothers and throe three sisters only ono ona brother survives In ht the person ot of rapt Henry n 11 Merrill ot of Green Point L I N Y picture Is dared from II a cut In the tho Dull vi leh paper In n II recent tinder tho the date line of at I 1 I L hits hils the following to tn 1111 Hay It Is doU doubtful if IC there la any one on the tho eastern end onel ot of Lon Long islaM eland who has hall led n a more mid varied lite Il Ian t i B 13 Merrill A f c of at this place Capt Merrill suns nR born at Nor Feb Foh 16 1824 anti com cout hla hili career nt at the early II or of 13 years on the sloop Lady hailed from Hag hilt but up 1111 at I Altar three years earll In time tho sor vice then thon being 16 years or of all age ho he shipped on his first onlo as n II but from which lie he afterward worked orkell his hili Ill up to second t VALENTINE MERRILL Killed h by a oad Car In Con III male During his voyages he paused around the world three times landed on the tho const coast or of Alaska on the tho eastern ot of Russia stopped six times nt at the tho H crossed crossell the tho equator 16 different tunes rounded apo horn n tour four times saw seven bur hur nt at sea and helped to H apt 1111 Merrill UM also n to the tho gold holds DS as second finale It III the good ahl ship h Huron uron from Sag Harbor which made his hili fourth trip trill around Cape Horn flora Copt Capt Merrill had nil au In the cargo whIch consisted l ot of lumber nail brick boards which had cost IG n a thousands home hOnl were sold for tor 3 i n a thousand rho bricks which had cost them 1 n a thousand lit at home sold for j T n a After Arlor III never Ien anti months o hs In I r t thO l hn gold olds f 1 I vs I time each em made c nn average wage ot of 85 a dl day Capt apt Merrill came homo once more In Ihl coasting trade being master ot of different Vessels for tor 46 years ears during which time ho he lost onlY one onn vessel Copt Merrill has hils 1 a record or of 60 59 years earll ot of continual se sea ser service vice not n year ar passing In that time but what he lit nl sea lien The Tho latter part vart of oC Cupl Capt IC sen faring Ile I I ass e I t ot two different yachts the Sea Ha Witch and the tho Viking apt hits n a good mein ory 1111 1 tin when hO a first w I to York thol wax not not II a house home within halt n Il mile south ot of Nut Not Olio ot of apt who went with him to U the gold Rohl holds s Is now alive ho ro re rem m gins to tell the tho wonderful stories ot of till the experience ot of th apt Merrill is III now 1101 SO yearn or of a age hut but hI he leaks so no hale and hearty that role olle would not think him over 5 Ile Is III a 11 member ot of the tho Methodist 1 church r of oC this which rich he joined In the tho fail o of IRIS 1818 1111 In ht n a beautiful little house mat I First street which urns built In III 1811 and which was III ht reality the Iho muse Oil on that street Although n It nil mill his lire life Capt Merrill hils hit ny y never neel used either liquors or tobacco The Iho services over OH the tho re me ot of Ann Merrill Pratt held on Monday lit itt the residence ot n f her hol sou SOli Pratt south fouth street this city olty commencing lit at 1 P 1 tn The were conducted b by tim or of the ward In Iii nil dilion to 10 these lime tho following wore were hires eaL President Angus M Cannon 1 tiller I John 11 Taylor lor Jo I A 11 1 Musser Ils or nod others Including N oJ p Sheets who um 11 with the tho deceased ed limo Iho firs t five foregoing made K and eulogistic ot n f till the beautiful ot of no noble lo Ehler 15 I l tho of i en lug player and Tilde J D II tr ter the tha closinG Time The sweet lit 1 t were beautifully rendered h by th tho following voices Mr ld e C Gra am ilea Miss liss silly Crin mind and piano ment 11 by Prof Merrill rho fol lowing songs being pang 0 fly 1 Pout em CI cl Otc r Mr S lm G ma soloist t e liver ger ht end I 1188 C I Need Thee Thoe I Every dour 1111 and 1 Neut Neul or er My Clod 10 I At the tho conclusion o of the tho funeral ser ROI tees 1111 her son Ron Pratt receive 1 the tho fallow h telegram from Crom five ot her ha r grandchildren n New York Dee 14 1903 our deep cst ost sympathy amid love we ho there George II 11 GIllett Viola 1011 Leone Iono Ruth Huth Many Ian 01 old 1 friends Who ho leno knew Mrs Pratt n ranging over rO 5 0 years attended the services an and 1 ac the remains to the nit elt or n f the dead wire whre tho they note rest the or of her husband the tho late e a Orson Eider Eldor Lorus J Pratt offered the tho denier tort nt at th time grave which wn S Rutty l with em cm 1 h by relit lell friends |