Show OBITUARY 00 Charles Franklin Stevens of whose fe the following brief account account ac count is but a synopsis was born in Little Cottonwood south of Salt Lake City on Dec 1853 and died at his home north of Cedar City Utah Feb 1923 Almost 1 most his wh whole le life has been devoted devoted devoted de de- de- de voted to pioneering work of the southern part of Utah He lIe spent the greater part of his youth at a place called in the extreme extreme extreme ex ex- ex- ex East Eastern rn part of Washington County where he met and married Olive DeMilla DeMille by whom be he had at this place the following children Franklin Carlos Minnie innie Nephi Oliver Olive Ida and Myrtle After this the family mo moved ed to Orderville where the tIle foll following wing children were born Oscar l Majorie rl Benjamin Rosswell and Isabelle Isabella The two last died in infancy as also had one in their former home home- homemaking making three whom he had lost during their earliest earl earl- iest lest infancy In n 1909 th the two sons Carlos Caries and Nephi cases over from Orderville and began the preparations for a e home me in do this valley previous to the rr moving ving of the family which the they didin did Jid didin in te to summer if of c 1911 Bro Stevens vent u ugh h many manyI I trials after he came hoe hire in the loss of so sq many of his family His 1 good I wife was an invalid from the time of I ithe the birth of the son Carlos and sufI suffered suf suf- I bodily pain and misery through I the many years of raising her family ly but through it all aU and the fact of that indomitable blood of the he true hardy pioneer and the further fact that he the unshakable t conic conic- tion tier of right it was always his first j 1 duty to is wife and family to see that all he ha co could ld was done and done willI will will- I for their welfare Towards the hetteY jl Her p part rt of h her er r life it the the g good good d wife wifel l I suffered many bodily ills and finally succumbed succumbed on March 10 1913 The daughter Marjorie volunteered to take a mission some time latter and I while in the work of the Lord gave up her life to the grim reaper while le in the field with headquarters a at at t Denver Colorado Nov 1918 On April 1919 the son eon came into the yard yam after doing some som e work out in the field and dropped dead without any say struggle and before re he could b Be bets carried into the house On July 1922 while at S St. St t I George where her husband and s she were at work in the Temple at that tha t place and had been living for several sever al years the oldest daughter Minnie Minni e Stevens Lane Lan eave ave un tin h hI her lifo life 1 lean u 0 ing a husband and four children Bro Stevens during all this and many other troubles of minor nature nature na na- na ture has never been heard to utter ont word of and his testimonies testis monies of which he had a great many were always of the strongest in regard to the Gospel and in which he was always an earnest worker and he has never in all aU his life shirked shirk ed any duty that he was called to perform by thos l in authority Frank as he was always fan familiarly called by all aU his was a pioneer inthe in inthe inthe the truest sense of the word and was always a producer and not asocial a asocial social parasite He earned every dollar he ever had and if that saying is true that An honest man is the noblest work of God then this earth is the better by far from his is having lived in it for it can be truly i said of him that he never wilfully injured in in- in injured Jared any II living ing man He was at die St. St George Temple when he took his last sickness which turned to pneumonia a of the most type which terminated in his death as I I stated above He leaves behind him seven children and over forty grand grandchildren grandchildren children and two great-grand great child ren ran Many men have testified that 3 in n more than forty years of their acquaintance with Frank Stevens Steve they have never heard him speak ill 1 of his fellow man I II l I Funeral services were held at the e Enoch Tabernacle February h i hs 1923 The speakers were Elders s I Lorenzo and Owen Matheson Bp C CE C. C E E. E Jones of the Enoch ward and L L. W W. Jones of Cedar Interment was made in the Cedar |