Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-28 | Page 5 | Jordan Pioneer's Funeral is Head

L 1 I t tI I JORDAN PIONEERS PIONEER'S S I i FUNERAL IS IS' HELD I t S S i 1 4 J nI Lt MANY ATTEND FUNERAL l lira in n yoom t LEVI NAYl NAYLORS NAYLOR'S RS R'S BODY I He Came Canle to Utah in 1 1860 Ex 1860 Ex Experienced Unusual Hardships Hardships Hardships Hard Hard- ships in ill Ear Eaf Early D Days ysl Funeral ral T L re IX l lor who died of old ag ago age at his home In hi Grant ward Murray Sunda Sunday were held yesterday yesterday yes yes- e tera al afi r oon in III the cl chapel apel of or West Wes c t tI I Jordan lordan ward war where Mr Naylor a lol had bar hadI I Ih lived d for near nearly tort forty years yearn t arH In spite of severe se weather er and bad jad roa roads s the time funeral lun was sas lar largely attended Bishop Andrew J. J of ot Grant ward officiated d The Time speakers wore were President lI rum Goff Got of oC Jordan stake Jo Joseph eph S. S Wells of or Salt Lake Joseph Hibbard of or West est Jordan Mayor Joseph B. B Wright right o of ale Ud J. J J. J Procter of ot Grant and Bishop Bissop Music lusic was as tu furnished b by a a. quartet from Grant Burial was In the West e t Jordan t tory tery r Nells Neils ell Lint Lind 1 offering the de dedicatory dedicatory dedica dedica- tory prayer Mr lIr Naylor was born bore at Nottinghamshire lre En land England October 29 the thc son on of or William and Diana Na a lor Wilt Ih his lila parents ho hi moved mo to lo Nottingham where hI liew worked ho-worked rk d as a lace Jac maker mako until tIme the spring of oC 1560 when h n having having- joined the tho Mormon lormon church he emigrated to Utah He lie pulled a a. handcart handcart handcart hand hand- cart from Irons tho the Missouri river to Salt alt La Lake k e. e Settling at West est J Jordan r an he ho entered the employ of oC the lat late Bishop Archibald Archibald Archibald Archi Archi- bald Gardner October 5 he married mar mar- nod ried Emma Goff who survives him as do also nine children and two sisters sis ads Mrs Emma of oC Star Vale Va- Va le lay ley Wyo and md Mrs Irs Ellen Jenkins Jenkins' of ot His Ills jo posterity Includes also sixty grandchildren and four tOUr great great- grail gran grandchildren I I d re ren ma Mr r. Naylors Naylor's alors pioneer life Ure was as no not without unusual hardships In December Decem- Decem ber her he lie had hada a narrow escape from death In tho snow when he be and a cousin Isaac Gaff Goff encountered a blizzard blizzard blizzard bliz bliz- zard while walking from rain to West rest Jordan Exhausted the they stumbled stumbled stumbled bled into a 0 home at Dr Dry Creek Creel and antl asked to be bc cared for through the time night At l this tills homo news reached them that Mr 11 Naylors Naylor's lors brother William had been frozen to death at nt West st JorI Jordan Jordan Jor Jor- I dan in the time same samo storm that ha had bad nearly cost them their thelt lives l During all his residence in Utah Mr 11 Naylor Xa was active In church and civic aff affairs Ho lie was prominently ro identified fled fied with time the I. I LD D. D S. S Sunday school 1 Y M r. r M. M i. i 1 I 1 A A- choir and other organ orgasm For man many years car h b ho was as president pres pres- l ident blent ent of at the tIme thirty third quorum of or Scent Seventy A As a a. member of or the old West Most Jordan Dramatic association he lie I I pate in more than a a. score scon of or pla plays a an and gained considerable reputation as asan asan an actor In he drove an ox Ot team to tho tIm t terminus t of oC the Union Pacific railroad to m meet t e-t a a. party part of emigrants coming coming- to Salt Lake valley alley In 1881 ho he filled a a. mission to England