Show another veteran gone W S muir who was among tile first settlers of bountiful departed this life friday afternoon nov and was hurried on tuesday deceased had just returned from an extensive trip through idaho and southern utah where he had been visiting his big children and the people whom he had been the means of bringing into the church while on a mission when he was taken down with pneumonia ile he was sick in bed about a week the funeral services were held in the west bountiful at meeting house prest hess elders robert patrick thomas dobson of salt lake city apostle J W taylor and bishop groat were the speakers the meeting house was nicely decorated and a sheaf of wheat a wreath of flowers and other floral offerings were placed upon the casket deceased was born on july 1822 at bannockburn scotland about thirty miles from Glas glasgow in ills bis early life lie he lad had a hard st forhing from early morn until late it at night getting gelling but two hours schooling each night after bis big days work had been completed he was a by trade january 1844 he married jane stewart robb both having joined the church about a year before their marriage the same year they emigrated to in march 1846 he left for winter quarters where he enlisted in the marmon battalion and made the famous march to los angeles on foot a great deal of the way barefooted tile the fall of 1848 he be returned to council bluffs where he met his wife and to which place in the mean time she had moved in forty nine the family moved to these valleys and the following year to bountiful which has ever since been his big home the spring of 1855 he left for scotland on oil a mission returning the year of the move south ile he went to ft supply to start a colony there and was iu ill the morris ite troubles of 1862 he took a t trip rip to great britain in 1887 to gather ge neology he was the first po postmaster it at woods cross where lie he served for twelve years I 1 contributed much means and labor for the building of the tabernacle in fast east bountiful f al in june 1895 he was ordained a patriarch ile he was a faithful and zealous member of the church ever trying to do his duty duly he leaves leave three 16 families milles avin 1 of had bad five twenty one children seyen seven ty two grand and three great grand in children to mourn his loss 1033 all of the children except fin fl who were prevented from coming 0 oa I 1 account of the distance or were present at the funeral funell fu nerl 1 te |