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Show VJ I 'j 1 V zjz,JtT O sr Centennial Peach Days Edition Of The N o t joj-rroyi- '&& i ;uu3ua J gyjpsgi ;7 &? puB -- - ,4ej4oui o4 Jglri asocfjnd aH jCuttoiat ? o M m M 2j-n- BOX ELDER u UGiV5 -- s' f-O Volume 52, Number The fifth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- ter Day Saints passed away at his home in the Beehive house, Salt Lake City, Utah, Thursday, October 10, 1901. The cause of his sudden deatli was a cold contracted some weeks before which developed into bronchitis. He gave his last address to a vast congregation assembled for conference in l the the great tabernacle. He was not able to attend more than one meeting. The burden of his last message to the church was God Bless You. Born in Mantua, Portage Co., Ohio, April 3, 1814, son of Oliver and Rosetta Lenora Petti-bon- e Snow. After Lorenzo Snow semi-annua- r a,-te- d Kirt-land- V 3 Elizabeth Snowball Burt Of Brigham City Was L. D. S. Church's Pioneer Missionary Mother table and sewing machine against the door leading to the house and then fearfully waited Few women have passed until early dawn when the inthrough the varied experiences truders departed without moof Elizabeth S. Burt and still lesting her. live with such a keen mind, acIn 1893, she and her husband tive body and cheerful spirit as and a number of their children as to to warrant being referred departed for the Hawaiian Is94 years young. lands as church missionaries Born in and they' remained there three 1846 Thomas to 7. England, June Soon after their arrival Snowball and Elizabeth Garr. years. house was built for a Credited with the She started for Utah with her the use of the missionaries. fathers family in 1854. She Elizabeth acted as paste applier walked the entire distance and helped to paper every room founding of Ilrigham across the plains and it was a in that house. She acted as City, Lorenzo F. Snow, most unhappy journey because midwife to both native and eldest and her father, mother white' sisters during childbirth, fifth president of the sister died enroute, leaving four and also nursed many women children fthe oldest 15 and theland mpn on the j.,lamis through Church of Jesus Christ youngest, which was she, only serious inness. She never of Latter Day Saints, eight years of aget, without jearned tfie foreign language money and with very little food. but sald she cou)d understand was born in Mantua. Arriving in Salt Lake t u almost anything spoken to her in they were taken to thea home th(, foreign tongue. She attri-oPortage county, Ohio friend uuted this to a God given gift, Elder William Allen, of the family. Here they were! (Mantua in IIo Elder death sne cared for until they could find j After her husbands a vocation. work. At a very early age, Eliz- took up nursing as county, Utah, was namShe was the mother of 13 chilabeth began earning her to twins ed for his birthplace) doing housework Craving dren. She gave b.rth and the barecreation and aifectaon, but twice in succession and died as president of bies lived to adulthood. She getting poverty, hunger and cared for her childitn through hard work instead. Theses early the church in Keehive their sicknesses without Ihe aid responsibilities developed in her of a doctor and many times she a most submissive and tolerant house. Salt Lake City, character. She was grateful for did not get the achance sto have and sleep dress night she in and in 1901. Converted possessed blessings has a most optimistic nature. She for seven and eight days. She Prithe Kirtland. Ohio, he sernever had the opportunity of at found Time for work inRelief soand association to learned mary but school tending 94 years ved a mission in Euread, write and sew and God ciety and at the age ofconversaendowed her with wisdom in the was an entertaining tionalist. Was an example of rope, campaigned vigcare of the sick. to came Brigham neatness and order living alone In 1862 she orously for to do her own work. City as the plural wife of John and able D. Burt, and for seven years Smith for president of Under Study lived with the first wife. She Iron Springs iron Iron The mining the United States, openSprings says they never quarreled and district in Iron county will be During truly loved each other. were trou- visited September 12. 13 and 14 ed the Italian mission, that period Indians more than one by 75 mining engineers, geolootr blesome and Geotranslating the occasion Elizabeth's courage and gists, members of the Utah and special saved Society logical thinking of Mormon into Italian, quick rational their annual her loved ones from harm. One guests during is area Iron tour. The Springs and served further misnight she heard a noise in her one of the largest potential iron cellar and upon investigating the western states sions in Europe and found it was occupied by In-a- ore areas in iron for major wes- and supplies of number Palestine. industries. tern her j dians. Hurriedly she placed Co. Alice Harding Historian Box Elder , a ijMjr'i-m- H f71t Ct Tabloid Section 52 Pages heavy swell struck the boat and capsized it. I must have fainted I was found under the boat and taken to the shore where artifi ci a lespiration finally restored me to life. I was carried to the home of a Portuguese where 1 was fully restored. I asked it all the others were safe. When told that they were I rapidly recovered and was able to walk to our new lodgings His families greeted him with glad welcome upon his return home as did the people of Box Elder county over whom he was islands and that Elder Joseph F. Smith, Alma Smith and William W. fluff should accompany them. Lorenzo Snows journal takes up the narrative: We took stage at Salt Lake . finished his studies at , Oberlin college he went to in Salt Lake Valley in 1848. Ohio to visit his sister. Eliza R. Snow. About one week The following year, Feb. 12, had n u.i City March 2, 1804 for San Francisco. At one time we stopped to exchange horses just as night 1849 he opened the Italian miswas coming on. The new driver sion and translated the Book of to sing in a sweet patheMormon into the Italian lan began tic voice. I was chaimed and 1852 in alter guage. Returning He had a wonderful three years absent- - he was delighted. Then with a talent. musical elector a member of Ihe Utah sudden lurch of the coach, causterritorial legislature end serv- ed by an awkward inovemenl ed three terms in he House of of the hoises, was wrought a presiding. Representatives marvelous change in our enOn the 6th of April, 1889, Lo With fifty families he found- tertainer. Instantly his person- itnzo Snow became president ed Brigham City in 1855 where ality changed He gave vent to of the twelve apostles which he made his home. He estab- a volley of oaths and most hor- sition he held until he became lished the United Order here rid blasphemies His profanity president of the church Septemand presided over Box Elder was heart sickening. We were ber 13. 1898, eleven days after stake for twenty-twyears un- commencing the descent of a the death of President Wtiford til August, 1877. He served on a narrow mountainous road i n Woodruff. When he became mission to the Sandwich Islands the darkness. The coach swayed president the church was in in 1864. In 1872 he filled a mis- fearfully with a double span debt, due to the confiscation sion with George A. Smith in of horses on a keen run. We ol its property so he set about Europe and later he was sent were tossed up and down, our to relieve the financial strain to Palestine to fill a mission heads striking the top of the He anthorized two bond issues coach. Brother Benson protested aggregating a million dollars. there. but this only increased his an- thus paying the most pressing In 1857 with the coming of ger. He continued to lash the ogltgattons of the church and Johnston's army to quell the horses. We tore down along the materially reducing the interUtah rebellion, missionaries mountain road every moment est rate. were called home and the Sand- expecting to be dashed to Then folowed the movement wich Islands mission was left in pieces. At last we reached the which revived the observance of and weie happily re- the law of tithing. This movecharge of a native elder. Dur- station our return we learn- ment has maked his adminisOn lieved. M. Gibson time Walter this ing ed driver was dis- tration as one of the most notthis that to the gosaccept professed charged was to went able in the history of the pel, baptised and We arrived i n Honolulu chuoh. It began at St. George the Sandwich Islands now Hawaii), where he organized the March 27, is,4. then sailed for then rolled like a wave over church according to his own Laina, then got into a small the entile church. The eoplo scheme. He ordained apostles boat to go ashore. Joseph F. responded heartily and the infor a stipulated price and other Smith had misgivings about go- debtedness was paid President Snow was eighty officers for lesser amounts. ing on the boat so remained When President Brigham Young on the ship. There were a few ' five years old when he became learned of this he decided that others on the boat besides the president of the church and years old Apostle Ezra T. Benson and missionaries. The sea was rough nearly eighty-eigh- t Lorenzo Snow should visit the on account of the breakers. A wiien he died. later he attended the patriarchal blessing meeting conducted in the temple by Father Joseph Smith. There were about twelve of fifteen persons present. Two weeks later, June 20, 1830, he was baptised and became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The following vear he began his ministerial career. Three years later he went with Parley P. Pratt to Europe on his first mission. While in Europe he published a religious pamphlet, The Only Way to be Saved. He returned to America in 1813 at the head of 'wo hun dred and fifty converts, lie conducted a igorous campaign in Ohio for Joseph Smitn for president of the United Stats. He taught the grammar school in much Xauvoo and finally sickness and tribulation rniv-e- As Told By Leroi S. Snow 1 T,. Brigham City, Box Elder Co., Utah, Sept. 3, 1947 71 Brigham City's Founder Served L.D.S. Church As Its President V 9 1 Co. DUP New-cas- t Brigham City's Founder j f . - livli-hoo- j d un-he- i tf I Tf 7 tf 1 v- .717 L " Ur '7 - ". s. : llj H 9 j llook y rswjpni 2-- r Joseph 1 7 5 r 7 af |