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Show Benjamin Curtis Dead. Hcnj.unin Curtis who died at Pies-ton Pies-ton in the eaily part of the week and who was brought hoio for burial, was forsomcjcaisa lesldcntof this city. He was born in Alicganey County, New York, Jan. 12, 1S28, and giew up in the rclgon made famous by the ev cuts tiansph Ing there, in connection with the bringing forth of the Hook of Moimon and the consequent oilgen of Mormonlsm. Mr. Curtis used to say that he didn't know anything about Joseph Smith and the plates he claimed claim-ed to recehe, but the -subject was often discussed in the nelghboihood wheie he lived, dining his boyhood, and he had once visited the hill Cumorah out ofcurlosity and he had seen evidences evi-dences that there had been a holo dug in the hill at the spot wheie Joseph Smith claimed tho plates had been bulled. AVhether tho hole' had been dug theic by Smith or some one else he could not say. In later years he man led a sister of C. W. Caul and removed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where they lcslded for a number of yeais. They came to to Utah In 1884 and located hi this City where they remained for six years, then removing to Preston where he has since resided. |