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Show OBITUARY, OF MRS. ;. SUSAN 60UDAN CARBON Mrs. Susannah Goudln Cardon, wife ot the lalo Paul Cardon, died at tho homo ot her daughter, Mrs. Sarah AjjTlirner al Logan, UtahDe-embcr UtahDe-embcr 8, '1920. Mrs. Cardon was horn July 30, 1833, In Piedmont, Italy. It-aly. She becamo a member ot tho Church ot Jesus Christ ot Latter-day Saints In 1853 and In tho fall of 186E she began her Journey to Utah, In ft sailing ressel from Liverpool, December 12, 1865, arriving In Now York March 16, having been on the water more than three months. Taking Tak-ing train from New York to St. Louis she started on her way for Utah, I pulling a handcart and arriving in I 5'111 Lake c"y on tllD 2Gln Jay ot jfljffieptembcr with .the first handcart Wcoinpany. A'ter remaining In Salt Lake City for a short time she went to Ogdcn 16 live, whoro on March 10, ( 1857 sho married Paul Cardon. In 1858 -Mrs. Cardon with many others, I moved south -when Johnston's ainiy tntere'd Utah. Within a low months she returned to Ogdcn where her husband remained oti guard during tho stay south. In 18C0 sho moved to Logan whero her husba'nd had come tho year before and built a home'' for the family. Sho has made her home In Logan ever slnco, cx- rcpt a few years wLi-c living on a farm In Benson near 1 ogan. The first few years In Cache Tal-loy Tal-loy were extremely severe and sho necesBailly underwent many hardships, hard-ships, ad especially was this the cuu the first year, as 4 the grasshoppers destroyed all- ot the crops. The) nscd roots and herbs as their prln-clplo prln-clplo food and were very fortunate In occasionally getting somo game, such as deer, rabbits, fish otc. Prior to her coming to Utah she tarned her living by working In the Mlk industries and naturally sho turned to tho same kind ot work hero when tho opportunity came. She was tho first In the territory to plant mulberry trccrand when they were I large enough sho gathered the leaves I for tho silk worms which resulted In , I Talslng a very fine grade of cocoons. I 8ho had a small loom made and was I tho first person here to produce silk. jBA little later she was called upon a jKiIsslon by President Drlgham ( 'Young, to go among the people and Instruct, them In the art ot silk making mak-ing which at that tlmo was an Important Im-portant Industry among tho pioneers. In a church capacity sho has nl-ways nl-ways been a devoted worker, filling number of Important positions. Sho was tho second person to Join tho Roller Society In Logan, an organization or-ganization In wlilch she labored hard practically all her lite no teacher and later In the presidency. She was a splendid neighbor, a loving wife and mother and took pleasure in doing good to others, nlwnyB having In her mind the happiness and wclfaro ot others. Sho Is tho mother of cloven children, chil-dren, seven ot whom survlvo her as rollows: Mary Cardon Merrill of fUehmond. Sarah Cardon Turner of .flgon. John P. and Louis S. Cardon ot Logan, Lucy Cardon Morrill of Richmond. Joseph B. Cardon of Lo-ean. Lo-ean. and Moses O. Cardon of lUBby, Idaho. Sho has sixty grand chlldrc. and forty flvo great grand children, a total of ono hundred and sixteen, row persons. It any. havo over been more loved " crcA ""l" has Susannah Cardon. Her faith in Cod and Ills Glorious work was indeed in-deed Bubllmo and sho radiated tho fplrtt of lovo(to such a wonderful degree de-gree as to Imp. ess all rcr s- wla'cd with her. Sho goes to n well earned reward, a filiation n a well .pent and beautiful llfo filled with1 service andrathfnctlon. Funeral, services wll? beheld In t1l0 tabernacle today. December 11. at noon. t |
