DEATH OF ELDER JACOB GATES our readers will not be surprised to learn that elder jacob jatee senior member of the presiding council of the seventies breathed his last at his hia residence in provo at 1145 p m april 1892 for the following data in relation fon on to the career of the deceased we are indebted to brother john M whitaker secretary of the Seven seventies tier jacob atea gates was born on the ath of march 1811 1911 in st bt johnsbury John abury caledonia county state of vermont HU fathers name was thomas his moth ers name patty his father was a farmer and during the early period of brother gates life he worked on the farm he also worked at the carpenter and joiner trades trade and his hl education was confined to a limited period he married mellie M snow daughter of levi snow and Iju olnia streeter on the of march 1838 and on the of june 1883 he was wa baptized a member of the church 0 of f jecius christ of latter day saints by orson Prat tand was confirmed a mem ber of the church the same day by Zerub babel snow on the alth of april 1834 with his young wife he left his bis fath fathers erks bouse for missouri where he arrived on june 1834 and located seven miles west of liberty clay county which was quite a small village at that time while here brother gat gates was invited to go with caleb baldwin upon a mission on which he left on the of january 1836 on the of february 1836 at flat branch county ill II he v was as orda ordained an ejder in the church under the bands of elder Bai baldwin dwin and on the of the ame mme month left edgar nty illinois and returned home in ME ri with 82 32 souls orho chose soder kader gates as aa their captain to clay bounty in the fall of 1836 1886 elder gates moved to caldwell county a distance of labout about fifty coues P on n december 1838 elder gates was ordained a seventy under the binde ode of the prophet joseph smith bod sidney rigdon rigden t the same rail fall of 1838 he be had been com impelled pe I 1 I 1 ed to march under a large kAMIl Haill tary escort in company w with th some bofty seven other brethren a distance rf about forty mi lesto richmond ray bay dounty in the meantime joseph and ana rum smith bad been taken atom far west and removed ito jackson cou county nty it was at richmond also that the prophet and V ra patriarch met these theme brethren elder gates batese journal burnal it lt it was here that we lire were tried for all the capital crimes afave alave ilave one in missouri bel before ore judge austin A king kin and we were imi li prisoner some three weeks finally we e went each others bail and were re 1 leased when we left for quincy illi j 7 not long after this he be went to hancock county and received a com L an aa ensign in a company of militia the same month he left in COM company pally with chandler holbrook to preach the gospel gong going as far east as kirtland and clay county and in the twi fall returned home in company k with wm snow on july jtb 1841 he went vent on a mission to la porte in the north part of indiana and in the fall of 1841 went south into marshall marshal county and organized a branch of the church and a goodly number of saints were baptized among whom WM WB bishop ishop farnsworth in 1843 he again left home june for a on to the new england states and before going he be met the prophet joseph jooeph his health was feeble hut but the prophet said go and fill your Val selon and we will wrestle after you come back the prophet and elder dates would often engage in this game tor exercise when elder gates re turned tamed home from this mission may 1844 he saw the prophet for the alast last ti time e a little distance dia tance from him on bighorse his big horse going to his martyrdom Atthe at the october conference of 1844 he ww ordained and set apart senior president ident of the fourth quorum of seventies under the hands of orson oraon and parley P pratt in the autumn of 1847 he came to utah and in the fall conference oon ferenc of 1849 was appointed with several others to take a minion to england he left y skit salt lake city october west ha new orient 8 9 took the jr 18 teamer maine and arrived in tuler liverpool pool april fth 1860 1850 while on chis mission minion elder gates filled several important positions in presiding over different divisions of the church he labored about three years in which dine many were added to the ai M 10 church hurch on his return home from ahls mission he wat wa appointed l fiz to take charge of a company of saints and successfully brought them aermes roes the plains arria ti 4 t lake city Liep september a agthe the following few yea tar troi traveled voled st throughout utah assisting I 1 in n the or of the different quorums of r seventies in 1859 he was called upon all another mission to europe to fill it beleff he left utah on day of september 1859 and reached liverpool on the day of december soon after hi arrival there he received a letter from president brigham young informing him that he had bad teen selected as one of the firpi council of seventies while upon this thia mission he be traveled with apostles C f C rich and amasa lyman by man in 1861 he returned home and on his hie way stopped at the different points and assisted in the outfitting outwitting out fitting work of companies of saints about to cross the plains in the fall of 1862 he was ordained a member of the first council of seventies while living in st george washington county he was wa a a member of the county court for several years he was also elected a member of the house of representatives of the legislative assembly of the territory to represent the district composed of the counties of washington and kane he was reelected three times to the same effice na melyin the years 1864 65 66 and 67 he was also elected in 1873 a member of the council of the legislative assembly to represent the district composed of the counties of kane and washington on the day of may 1866 he was appointed brigade aid de camp first brigade of the nauvoo legion militia of utah th its iron military district with the rank of colonel of infantry 22 brother gates was a faithful latter day saint devoted to the cause of god on the earth and has gone to the spirit WIN id to join with and enjoy the society of other tried servants of the almighty who have preceded him there to continue to labor for the right and await the full reward that awaits him in et anity