Show DEVTH OF ELDER JOHN L0 VJfaitliful Teheran 1assci to m Hti I is rare that Death lays luau and upon one who without specia olliclll position in the Church wn I so widely known I crwually or by reputation as talher John Lou who departed Uiis life soon after a m yeitenlaj Thanksgiving I > iy Xovembcr2Sth at his residence In the Twentieth Ward of huts eity John Lyon was bom In f lnsgow Scotland on thc 4th oOfarch Is s tai his age at death was SO year I and nearly nine months lie was thc son of Thomas and Janet Me Arthur Lyon of a somewhat ell turcel jet hardy stack nitH R gen emily belongs to tbu race ayont the Twcl The early history of his pro gcillore is oomenlinc Involved in obscurity notw itlistandiug lie Scottish mctliiti bf continuous con-tinuous nCitrsUun In lie toils aftd Struggle of early semi or complete I orphinace he exiiibi ted that drift towards iutelleclu nl purul which wrs evilunll hereditarjiiHhougli i found none of those opportunities which come from nhools and disposition alone in the midst of grinding poverty enabled tho little felo Jnr acquire from such resources a he could reach hue thirst for learning and advancement The routine of elfcducalion enabled the unllring worker to achieve quite a Jerry reputation In early le the local lrse publishing man of his original efforts until finally an engagement upon Icl Iiper give him that settled lllerary taSte which continued contin-ued almost up t the close of n long and well marked life Like most of ins country men young Lon was early imbued will Presbj mIn m-in fad it was uultu the blood but lie discipline and training of newspaper not tuulruquently life i then bud to ns Indifler now euee If not to actual eeepticism in regard to many things deemed religious gious ThIs final Iue was presented pre-sented in lila case 1 hJ the reaching of a then famous ind zealous Elder of the Mormon nmrehWm GiU son John loon had at that time been married t Janet Thon1 u several sev-eral Jeirs inJ a little family was the result when his acceptance of the Gospel transpired His lai turn look plate on the rIttof March 1611 at Kilmarnock Ajr hirc I arid in April following lie was ordained or-dained an Eider auJnpiiointed to I reside over lteih ntJII branch i tubsetiuciiUi he was called out as n i traveling Elder I After laboring in I that cajacitj for some lime he was apjolutenl President of the Worcestershire Kng land Conference This mission I was a trying one for himself and family for no rvgtilar salary fell to hem as a preventive against pov erti audalUictiou This i laborcon n inued for thiee year during hicli dhll ll timne I absence three of his children died amI consequent release was was followed bj ippoiutnient to preside over the Glasgow conference In 1852 her he continued one year anti then was released to gather gath-er t Utah As an interesting fact of the trip CartDavid Ilrawnauduearly llthe crew of the ship Jntcrnalvtnut were baptized Brother 1yon and his I airHi left Glasgow February bill lSo3 nut nsieiieil Salt Lake City September Glh of the same 3 crOne cr-One Of his list acts prior to leaving his native land was lie donation of his C Poems to b pulililicd for the bcnefitof Ien > etualEmlcn lon Fund The hook was published In Liverpool In 15 and thousands of copies are to lie found scat ered through the homea of Utah Several hymns in that collection are In continuous us in the congregi ton of the Sint1 being partof the general hymn book of the Church Three years after his arrival In the villey hue married Caroline Ilelland Elder Ion was the father of 12 children by his first wife Five of thc survive him alt b3 his second wife he had seven children mind these are all living t lanient the death of their progenitor who death is the frt one in the family for near thirty yeses His grandchildren grand-children number 19 and chidrn aUI his great ruidchii < lren lixingaud dead arc 31 S that Father Lyon was a nctical itriarch and lrclcalltrbreh an was Indeed on lined t that posillon and olllce on the 7th of May 152 rrr > ideiit Eion oodrua being voice on lint oec lonMother Mother Lon t whom the deceased de-ceased was mnrrieii 1 ixty four years ago still survives although very tble and pnrliall3 blind Slur is he special charge of her daughter Mr Ijillnn Statues whore deO ton t her filher and mother is a fitting If not the bat l > ossibli 1 lluMrniion of that fidelity and cart parents that Ko fuii3 enjoined In thatsicred rehlionsliip a inctil hlJ ciled in the Gosiiel of Jesus Christ Iatlur loon was i lr to mann man-n all re liects honest brave Intel igenl and full of testimoii3 to the ruth if opportunities outside or or early poverty and struggle in lie Church could have I f him he light hive stumbled but hewn he-wn steadfast and everywhere reliable For over thirty years he had charge of the Endowment Endow-ment House enjoyed his religion and attended his meetings near t the di3 of his death Strength de ciston and devotion were his char cteri ° tic and hits honor and lion estv wereofilmotphenomenaltype et werohlmot phenoment His departure full of years invokes more ali faclioa than regret for he f ought the good light Crt the alth he has finQicd his course amI he is entitled t his crown In the leaving of his aged partners the 8 suggestion in i one of his fugitive erR unpublished heretofore rae hip h mpvg oe thc > UTe U-Te u ater sects the ttrand While I am far removed from titer rthennieen rint lart f We 11 met together yet Where the an hall never tt With a iroJeome or roar band I nd a lore without rexrct The funeral tlc will b con dued nUt a on Sunday in the te TwentIeth War Meeting Hous Millennial Star please eo copy |