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Show Death of Another Veteran. Allen pwt write to in fronirioow-ilakounJef fronirioow-ilakounJef date of May JWth.M f illowi: Aii'.ther of tho veterans of our Ch'irch Xamd away nt this place on the I Ith tilt., namely, William Decatur Kartell-usr. Kartell-usr. Decvawl was tlio sou of John C. KniUhrer,oud Prudence Wilcox, km born at Hattford, Muntgnmiry Co., Penu., My 111, ISM, and Up liud May ith, Hit), having lm-rd lite Uosil tliu previous day for lis first thin. Ho was nurrlI lo Margant Juuu Caalesl lu M.ifb, IS J I, pU'itO through all the mobbing! and periccu. Hone at Nauvoo.itaudlng guard gnn'er pait of the lime iliuliu a six weeks' rain, and was stricken down with rheumatism. Hecould notmoveliand nor fo.t at tho time vt thu martyrdom, llnwaacallnd to go with Iho riimous "Umliiielts'Cgiuiun'," and through thu oinratlona of those lu charge, wns reduoed, with many uthira, to disin Being Be-ing clrrumslanns. It was only by a desperate eUort Hint ho aud his mi wero enablol lo get asy from the comany, nd woik their way back m Bt. Louis. Hero lirolhcr Karlchner was well treated by bis brother John, although not In sympathy In religious matters. In thu siring of 1840 Brother William and wlfeJolm-J a coin any of Balntawho wero rerlng logo totha Itocky Mountalus, (inferring the hard-ships hard-ships an. I dangers ot such a trip lo remaining re-maining utuong a i-eople who ha I abused him nud his fellow KAluta. This company was In okargo of Captain Will am Crosby, and arrived lu Bait Lake Valley July Ulh, 1817-oue 1817-oue year and Ihreu months from Ihu lime of leaving tho Stale. Hrother Kartchner, who waa hlackemlthby Inde, faithfully a-slsted as a pioneer In Hie sttlleinent ot new plicealn Ulahnnd ArKona. He had lieon quite foeblo In body and mind for Iho last ten years, Laving almost entirely en-tirely lost his sight. He always boro a strong and faithful testimony to thu truth of the gloat latter-day wollt, and wasutruo and cottiUleut Lattir-day BalnU His first wife died ten years ago. Ho leaves seventeen chtldrin and foity-threu grandchildren to mourn his loss, tho detuned was highly respected by nil w ho know him. |