Show mark cook passes basses away last saturday september 1805 1895 about six in the evening mark cook one of Bount itula oldest and boat best known citizens passed q quietly and peacefully away at liis ilia home while surrounded by sill all of bit hi family and quite a number of his hia friends after nil an illness of about two months of brights brigati ti disease being in his seventy sixth year he was the son of george and ar tulus collier cook arid and was born on november 1819 at glutton clutton t Sumet shire englund england ilia his boyhood days were spent at school slid and working in the coal mines at the age of twenty three lie he married ann evans and eleven years later he be ard and his family came to utah having previously joined the church of jesus christ of latter day Sal saints lits crossed the atlantic in ili a sailing vessel and the plains with ox teams arriving in salt lake late in tile the fall of 1853 remained in salt lake until may 1851 working part of the time in the butte stone quarry getting out rock for the foundation of the temple moved to bountiful in 1854 where lie he has ever since resided he was the father of eighteen children ten sons and eight daughters ten surviving him six boys and four girls he has fifty grandchildren grand children seven even great grand children he passed through a great many hards hardships bips and trials such as were incident to early pioneer life went out to meet johnsons army at echo canyon in 1857 and a south at the time of the move ile he was one of the men who helped to build the now almost crumbled down city wall also it made quite a number of the e adobes acobes that our taberna tabernacle cW is bim b ba IM i n ln in of ilia his first wife died july 1882 she was the mother of fourteen call dren six boys and eight girls on october 1883 he married esther lowder who has born him four sons the funeral services which were held in the I 1 tabernacle monday september were well attended the speakers were elders henry rampton E r clark farmington jud son tolman thomas briggs C ll 11 jones ani and david stoke St ocer all spoke very highly of the character ot brother cook stated that he bo was at al ways willing nil an realy ready to help to 0 o advance the work of the lord in the eartle the casket was nicely decorated with boquete made of flowers now in ili season twenty five vehicles followed tile the remains to their final resting place in the bountiful caime aeme tery |