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Show JULY 21, 1987 L, John Taylor died here 100 years ago By DONETA GATHERUM KAYSVILLE July 25, 1887, 7:55 p.m. at the Thomas Roueche home, 1002 South Roueche Lane, John Taylor, President of the LDS Church died. President Taylor was last seen in public on Jan. 3, 1885. He had just completed a secret tour of the LDS Church that took him to Arizona Territory, New Mexico, Mexico and California, a distance of nearly 5,000 miles. After preaching his last public sermon on Sunday, Feb. 1, 1885, President Taylor decided it was in the best interests of the Church for him to go into retirement, conducting the affairs of the Church from secret underground locations. The last eight months and four days of his life were spent in the Kaysville home of Thomas Roueche. It went by the code initials DO. The story of President Taylors death can be found in many documents including contemporary newspapers, Little Gold Pieces by Juliaetta Bateman Jensen, and Life of John Taylor by B.H. Roberts. President Taylor presided over the LDS Church during the period when the Edmunds and Edmunds-TuckLaws were being most strictly enforced. Many leaders of the Church had fled into Arizona or Mexico while othere were serving prison sentences in both Utah and elsewhere. President Taylor felt his best recourse in this situation was to get out of their way as much as you can. This strategy brought him to the Roueche home. While at DO he met frequently with his counselors, George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith. He lived quietly, seldom going out of doors for fear of being recognized. He was surrounded by several guards including H.C. Birrell, James Malin and Samuel Bateman. After the death of his wife, Sophia on Feb. 27, 1887, President Taylor developed an illness that eventually caused his death. On July 7 his wives, Mary and Margaret visited him accompanied by his sons, George and Edward. At the time of his death, several family members and leaders of the church were gathered at his bedside. President Taylors body was quickly packed in ice and packed into a refrigerator box for transpor- er tation secretly into Lake. The guards who were staying at DO with President Taylor worked all night to remove all evidence that the President had ever been in the home. This effort worked. "The Salt Lake Tribune, a strongly newspaper, reported on July 28, 1887 "It was bruited (sic) about yesterday that the death place was Kaysville but probably it will be Grantsville or by Morgan City. The old gent spent a few days in Cottonwood three weeks ago with a sister, and then left for another place of retirement where there were no marshals to trouble or make afraid. It was said yesterday that he died at Brigham Youngs farm down by Calder's farm, also that he died in the Fourteenth Ward. However, the truth is sure to come out, for some of the brethem are very leaky. The body stayed in the Gardo House in Salt Lake City until the PRES. JOHN TAYLOR funeral on July 29. morning and the dilapidated feaAn official statement, prepared cession will go to one of the Snows tures will be brought up to someHe the to Cannon latter. or and Smith, probably Joseph by George Q. thing like life, so Mr. Taylor will be is as rank a fanatic as John Taylor F. Smith was printed in the "Dereadily recognized today in the has and the not nearly seret News and other was, steady A local undertaker Tabernacle. had. He old man of columns the that The judgment papers. of the says no knife is allowed to touch a these papers were edged in is known as the Saint so Taylor was embalmed The Salt Lake Tribune black. church, and in his rattled brain he has a lingering idea that he is to be by injections through the natural did not use the official stateorifices only. ment. They printed an editorial, a the Mohammed who, with fire and ...Not more than half the numrebuttal to the official statement sword, if necessary, is to convert ber that attended Brigham Youngs world. on the and lengthy articles possible funeral are expected to attend John successors to President Taylor. s While the Deseret News Taylors. While the entire newspaper There is an interesting connecwere too lengthy to resimply listed the funeral program tion between John Taylor and the in the and the seating arrangement produce, short excerpts are worth Roueche defamily. While President Tribune the Tabernacle, mentioning. scribed vividly the deathly appear- Taylor was serving a mission to the The Deseret News called ance of President Taylor. The British Isles, he baptized William President Taylor, A faithful, dedead President of the Mormon Cornish on the Isle of Man. Wivoted, and fearless servant of lliams daughter was Margaret Church will be buried this afterGod, and said The title of noon from the Tabernacle. ..The Cornish Roueche, the wife of ThoChampion of Liberty which he received in Nauvoo, was always felt body remains in the ice box until 6 mas F. Roueche who eventually a.m. when it will be removed by settled in Kaysville. to be the most appropriate for him The Roueche home was probably Sexton Taylor, laid out and dressed to bear. selected as a refuge for President in the orthodox robe over his enThe Tribune characterized dowment underwear, without Taylor because of its isolated locathis same man as a .. is which no Mormon is buried and tion that was remote yet near to Salt foreign-bom.there man.. .being Lake and because of the close assoabundant evidences of the hate placed carefully in the coffin for rebetween the Cornish family ciation doc.The . Tabernacle. it the to moval which he steadily felt for (the tors who took it on themselves to and President Taylor. U.S. government). The best enerDuring President Taylors stay at perform the undertakers duties ingies of his life were devoted to the stead of allowing him to do them, the Roueche home, the major porestablishment of a hostile kingdom have not made a success of their tion of the home was turned over to in the midst of a free Republic... He trouand work. The eyes of the dead are him. The Roueche family lived in a harassed left his people sunken and the features are wan log cabin behind the large home. bled. The cabin and the home are both and pinched. Why the professional Between John Taylors death embalmer and undertaker was not standing today. An attractive marand his funeral, the Tribune allowed to attend is not explained. .. ker, prepared by Kaysville Boy printed several stories which speHowever, a man who knows his Scouts, marks this historic spot. culated on the successor for Presibusiness has access to the body this dent Taylor. One stated, The suc- - Once a year, around July 24th, to look back. Have you ever considered how important salt is' to our diet? Have you wondered how vital this mineral was to the early settlers, not just as a seasoning but also as a preservative? How necessary are flour, rice and sugar to your diet? Have you ever had to ration these staples or go without for even one day? Lets look back to 1857. The Utah War, a conflict between Mormons and the U.S. government over many things including control of the territorial governmental offices is taking place. The government has sent an army, led by Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston to escort newly appointed federal officials to Utah. One of these officials is Alfred Cumming who has the appointment to the territorial governorship, a position held by. its good Brigham Young. ' to-nig-ht pro-Morm- fire-bran- d arti-cle- well-bre- er great-grandmoth- I R. BLODGETT Davis Countys 15 incorporated cities will be holding an election and filing deadlines for this fall candidates are not far away. There will be three different filing deadlines for candidates from Davis County because of nonpartisan primary and elections and a primary partisan election in one community, explained Vernon Carr, Utah election official from Centerville. This means that not only will the filing deadlines be different but the filing procedures candidates must follow will also vary with each municipality, he said. The only thing that remains the same for all 15 incorporated communities is the final election date which is Tuesday, Nov. 3. Most of the communities will have no primary municipal elections meaning that these cities will accept all candidates foi election and their names will be placed ballot in on a single, November. These cities are North Salt Lake, West Bountiful, Woods Cross, Clinton, South Weber, Sunset, Syracuse and West Point. Six other cities Bountiful, Centerville, Farmington, Clearwill field, Layton and Kaysville elections but will hold hold a primary election to reduce the number of candidates to six equivalent to two candidates for each of three three council posts up for election. final-electio- n non-partis- Fruit Heights will hold a noprimary, partisan election in which candidates will be selected by a committee from each of two parties to have their names placed on a , final election ballot in November. This is the only community not to have a filing procedure to follow ; except that the candidates must be chosen and made public by Sept. . 22. Otherwise, communities with primary elections have a filing deadline of Aug. 25, elec- and cities with tions but not holding a primary election have until Sept. 22 to file, Mr. Carr explained. Three city council seats will be up for grabs in each of the 15 municipalities, unless there has been a recent resignation of;' another candidate whose term ' does not expire this year. Each council post will be for a term, and except for Fruit . Heights, the top three will be seated on the council early ' next January without regard to the total votes garnered. In two years, the mayor and the two council members not up for this year will have their terms expire. Each candidate must declare candidacy by filing with the City Recorder of the city in which they : reside, pay the city filing fee, and present a petition with at least 25 signatures of qualified voters living within the city limits. Primary elections will be held Tuesday, Oct. 6, at which time the field of candidates will be nar: rowed to six. non-partisa- non-partis- vote-gette- sin-stain- salt, but many have had none for a long time. The stores of provisions here consist of bacon and a few hams (3 lbs. of bacon is ration for 7 days); beef, we are killing the poor lean animals and drying the meat, only eating the fore quarters at present (2 lbs. of beef is ration for seven days); flour, a very limited quantity, issued in half rations onl-rice, we have our own; dessic-cate- d vegetables a very small quantity, eight four inch squares, half an inch thick are called 50 rations. So they can be procured only in quany; tities sufficient to thicken soup; vinegar and pickles; candles, officers ration 3 candles per month; molasses, one gallon is called 100 rations and issued accordingly; General Johnston would not allow his soldiers to eat of salt would not accept it through fear that it might be poisoned. The Mormon boys dumped their loads out on the plain outside the camp. Some of the soldiers who were suffering from scurvy for want of salt stole past the guard and went to the pile of salt and ate from it and filled their pockets with it and carried it back into the camp and gave it to the others. The secret was soon out and the results was that every pound of that salt was carried into the camp and used as food seasoning. Even the dirt underneath the piles was swept up and the salt particles dissolved surre-ptious- ar for. The beef is so lean that, without exaggeration, one could get as much fat from a potato as from the beef, but it is not badly tasted, only one can only make soup and bouillon of it. The editors of The Genteel Gentile included this interesting footnote in the book, When Brigham Young learned of the suffering of the army for want of salt he sent out some wagon loads of our own pure salt to them (from the salt flats west of Salt Lake City). A soldier who deserted the army after they got to Utah and joined the church gave this story: Another story in the same book is also worth quoting. During these trying circumstances in the army. President Young sent some salt which they needed very much. One of the sacks of salt was lost and later picked up by a traveler who sold it to merchants for twenty dollars. They in turn sold it to the soldiers for two hundred dollars. Ben Simons, a Cherokee, took to the army 900 pounds of salt, which he sold for two dollars and a half pound or a total of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. He sold them service berries for one dollar a pound. Once a year, around July 24th, a good idea to look back. It helps us appreciate our standard of living especially the little things like salt. its ea.ffla.ai Bmmm j Neu 30" Etengei Gao or Electric (Your Choice) Homo $ 1 brands (0 0 & I ly from it. dried peaches, 10 pounds equal 100 rations. These are all the articles of food here, at this season these is no game here but now and then a rabbit which the killer thereof asks a dol-l- - Accompanying Governor Cumming to Utah is his wife, Elizabeth d Wells Randall Cumming, a New Englander who is the of Samual Adams, patriot and member of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention. The book The Genteel Gentile edited with introduction and notes by Ray R. Canning and Beverly Beeton is a compilation of letters written by Mrs. Cumming to relatives and friends. It gives us good insights into the life style of a person traveling to Utah in 1857 under stressful conditions. The Mormons, using guerrilla .warfare tactics, have burned three supply trains consisting of 72 wagons. Animals have been driven off and the grass has been burned leaving little food for the remaining stock. The Utah Expedition has been forced to camp at Fort Scott, near Fort Bridger for the winter. Elizabeth writes, Our provisions are a subject of so much and such general interest to us, that I could not describe our situation and prospects at all without telling all about them They are limited in both quantity and variety. A most rigid economy in their distribution is necessarily observed, to give us some assurance of being fed till Spring but the food is wholesome enough, and that is the grand point. We have no milk, eggs, butter, lard, nor the thousand and one articles in daily use in a household. We have no salt, this is a deprivation to many. We (ourselves) have about a quart left of our journey By GARY anti-Morm- Pioneer cookings recalled By DONETA GATHERUM Want to run for political office? file intentions Bountira J 2951822 l (2703JvQQESgP 3 (120 (sSDE&0223 iGHM033ri rs |