| Show D DEATH eath OF DAVID P KIM BALL A FEW FACTS RELATING TO ME THE DECE DECEASED abeda ASEDo the sudden news of the death of elder david P rim Kim kimball balls balis one of the presidency of the st bt joseph stake of 21 fon lon wili wiil wui be ead kad intelligence indeed to his hib many tali fall M hi re side bide in this locality A private telegram from president 0 layton to president john taylor brought the tidings of hla hib decease at halt hait past eix bix this mornin gathia at his hib home to which he recently returned in st bt david cochlan county arizona hit his Ut WM pneumonia david patten kimball was waa the fourth son and sixth child of the late president weber hober 0 and murray kimball and was born at commerce afterwards nauvoo hancock county illinois on the of august 1839 he wu was but three weeks old when his father left home on his second mission to england he came to salt lake valley in 1848 1849 the year after the arrival of the pioneers being then a small email boy accompany ing in hig his mother and the rest of her children he spent the most of his life in utah and grow grew up a strong strongs powerful man active and energetic one who made his mark on everything he undertook to perform he was brave to a fault hardy and capable a natural pioneer and colonizer though also pow pon possessed essed of a fine spiritual nature in the winter of 1856 the year of tho the handcart hand cart company disaster he with many others went out to meet and rescue the perishing immigrants it was from farra wading rivers and working his hla way through snow banks carry carrying ing lug the people in his armas arms armb and performing buch such like offices of kindness to the exposure of his hia own person that he be contracted a cold from the effects of which he never afterwards after waida entirely recovered in the year 1863 1883 he left here bere on a mission to england and labored in southampton as a traveling elder after which he presided over the birmingham disarlo district t comoria com pria pris ing the birmingham staffordshire and warwickshire Warwick shire conferences he ilo returned to utah in the early part of 1866 during darlng the construction of the union pacific railroad Ball road he took a contract in the vicinity of bear river biver east of this city raty and assisted in building that road during the summer of 1868 and the winter of 1 8 he removed to the bear lake country in the spring of 1869 or 1870 and waa was the president of the bear lake stake for several yearb years bhe sHe he returned to salt lake city in 1875 or 1876 1976 and built him a home in the eighteenth ward the present residence of dr john B R park he also engaged in business repaired the old mill belonging to the kimball estate and renovated the family property in general he afterwards removed in tho the summer of 1877 to arizona lived there in various places and finally settled at st bt david where he died his hib last visit to this city was at the late october conference in one of the meetings of which he spoke briefly and feelingly bearing testimony to the truth of gods latter day work and expressing his desires to worthily represent it for the remainder of his days he seemed to have no idea of his approaching end in fact expressed himself quite to the opposite of such a probability remarking to hla hig sister mrs helen IM M whitney while visiting at her housey houses house hoube you will go I 1 think before I 1 do I 1 am not good enough to die I 1 shall likely live for many years it is ia thought by somo of his relatives that the remains will be brought here for burial but as hla his own family are all in arizona it Is exceedingly doubtful that this will be done |
