Show sketch of sariah corbetts L life ife according to last weeks promise we present a sketch of tile life of sister sariah corbett who was born in E england i nov 2 1832 s and nd received the gospel at her old home of a local elder when site she was about twenty years of sae ae and immigrated to st louis about one year later where she mourned the loss of a loved gloved one which rendered her dependant upon her own re 8 source burces 9 to lo come to the mountain valleys as bentshe best she aoud she accepted the first opportunity to com come e west which yas vas with a gentile train and that too without hav ing an acquaintance along the captain caplain being a very wicked swearing ug man and very overbear ing dg caused her many hardships hard ships but still he had a humane heart within him and at one time came back twenty five miles to find her when she got lost notwithstanding her trying experience peri ence she landed in salt lake in aug 1855 without acquaintance or relative as there were those around in the train with whom she dare not leave her luggage she slept four nights on the ground and received but very scanty rations when she was approached by one of her own faith who opened the way for her to get a more comfortable logging place in which place she lost all her earthly ear it bly possessions except the iotes cloths c she stood up in by an accidental fire in march 1850 2 she married joseph E corbett with whom she lived very lovingly for nine years which marriage resulted in the birth of three boys and two girls all of whom still live her husband was a locksmith and a good mechanic in other lines but lock smith work was his favorite while in salt lake a safe needed picking ig and a large reward was offered and he be succeeded in getting it after which a larger offer was made to open a sate safe in san francisco which reward lie he was successful in getting also he expected to be back to his family in three months but his wife predicted that she would never never see lim him again which proved to be too true for another offer was made ard e to open a safe in new york which he opened after this lie he was employed by the government to manufacture locks and af after ter this he manufactured locks for himself although absent a long time he did not forget lis his family but from time to time sent them money for their support the last of which was a P 0 order for 50 and lots of other nice presents pre in the way of clothing sent in 1872 aud and this was the last word his family ever heard of him sister corbett has been living with her daughter mrs morris in boun ticul for about three years from where she went this spring to visit her other daughter she was taken sick and her ebi children I 1 sent for saturday may she died at 11 a m her son joseph E knocked a wheat bin to and made a rough box in which they laid his mother and they had her in salt lake at noon sunday the funeral services vices were held in the nineteenth ward meeting house monday at 2 p m the following speakers addressed the many friends who had assembled joseph wattson bro durbridge J L holbrook col smith bishop rawly and bishop barton from whose remarks we learned that the deceased being alone alonce had had bad an exceptionally hard time in rearing her family and that she h had a d been a very hard worker both in spiritual and temporal affairs and she had bad considered nothing to good for her children her course was illustrated with a loc log c house with the chanken ch inken knocked out as a temporal kitchen abode but she has left and stepped into the parlor four white horses drew a carriage in in which rode her sons shop mates this with the hurse burse and about twenty carriages 0 comprised the procession it was an exceptionally spirited funeral f |