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Show THE LATE D. B. RAWSON. The Funeral Services Over the Kemalns of a Utah I'ionear-sketch of His Career. The funeral services over the remains of , the late Daniel 11. Rawson of Ogden were held In that city yesterday. Mr. Kawson j was born Dec. 10, 1827, In Washington county, Ind. In ls:il his parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and In 1883 moved to Jackson county, Mo. In the year 1846 he married Mariah Atchison. In 1846 he went west with the general church move, aud upon the arrival of his father-in law, he settled in Council Bluffs. While here be enlisted for the Mexican war. After the discharge ol the liattaliou he worked for Captain Sutter. It was at this time the first gold fever broke out, while discing a mill race for the captain, in the spring of 1848. In the spring of that year he Commenced his return trip. After many vicissitudes and peril! be landed in Salt Lake City June I. 848, In August, in company with others of the battalion, he started east to meet his dear ones left behind. On the way they met President Brigham Young on his return trip to Utah, and he kindly furnished them with several teams. After an absence of two years and four months he arrived at Council Bluffs. To his great sorrow he found his w ife had broken her marriage vow and made his home with . , . . j ... i 1GIO his iieioveu parents, in me spring 01 i he started hack to Ctah, arriving the latter part of October, settling first in Farmington, Davis county, where he was married to Nancy Boss in I860. Kroin here his ineunder-iims ineunder-iims are various and noted. In the Iprlbgof 18&4 he settled in Harrisville and in lSOO was selected presiding elder. Soon after he agitated agi-tated the necessity of building more commodious commo-dious quarters for school and general purposes. pur-poses. There wi re only eighteen families residing In the precinct at the time. They subscribed over $1800 towards the erection of the building. It is now the old adobe laud mark which ought to be held as the sacred spot of his indefatigable labors. He continued con-tinued to preside, having love and confidence of the people till th fall of 175, when he went, by request, as an explorer to Arizona aud parts of Colorado, Through severe exposures ex-posures aud untold toil his health became broken, and he returned to his home in July, 187U. |
