Show funeral services fl the services over the re mains of sister elizabeth stephens were bold in the first ward schoolhouse march 1886 counselor james burch presiding tho choir under tho leadership of J T coleman sang creation speaks with awful voice prayer by elder moroni brown the choir then sang sister thou baet mild and lovely father wm critchlow was the first speaker lie had been with deceased who came to utah bome 35 years since the same year aa he tho speaker did our sister has accomplished the measure cr cation she was rons and three daughters to whom she always aavo the best advice sho left the place of her nativity because she was not permitted to live up to her religion among her sectarian friends and cast her it t among those who were despise dand cared not for the frown cf the ungodly because she had an abiding testimony that the work was of god she lived and died in full faith of the gospel counselor P garner elder georger Georg TR hill arcet 0 F mid bleton and counselor jas burch in turn addressed the congregation exhorting all to imitate her virtues and be faithful as she has been that that it might be said of them as it is now said of her she has abeen faithful to her covenants true to her brethren true to her children true to her companion and true to her god the choir sang unveil thy bosom faithful tomb take this new treasure to thy trust benediction by eld r L D rudd the remains were followed to their last resting place by a large number of friend mourners elizabeth stephens daughter of john and constance briggs was born in roan co N C may ath from tb ere in the year 1852 and settled in brown co ills and tho following year was married to john stephens who was one ot the company from N C and they to getner cleared up a farm and boado a home about the time of the expulsion of the saints from missouri an elder by the came of jacob foutz came in the neighborhood preach lne the gospel of christ sister stephens lent a willing ear and soon after her husband and herself were baptized and selling out their home they gathered to nauvoo with the saints and there passed through the trials and persecutions that the saints endured they help to rear the temple and in it received their endowments in nauvoo they made another home and at the time of the expulsion of the saints from that city they took joyfully the spoiling of their goods and left their home once more to find another among the savages in the rocky mountains all because they had been denied the right to worship god according to their own consciences in the land of the free and tho home of the brave stopping at a small town in iowa called they made another temporary home and in the year 1851 agam took up their journey westward landing in ogden city sister stephens husband died of small pox in 1870 they had previously been united for time and eternity she died march 1886 and was 73 years 10 months and 4 days old when she died she leaves 8 sons and three daughters to mourn her joss also one son dead to them eha was always a kind and loving mother ever watchful of them giving them a mothers good and wise counsel she leaves 76 grandchildren 54 living 13 great grandchildren 12 living in her sickness and death she was surrounded by her children with the exception of two who were in bear lake valley at the time and they received the news of her death too late to get here in time to even sec her consigned to her last resting place may god bless her family and help them to emulate her many virturia vir turea |