Show LIFES WORK ENDED I f Sketch of the Career of Joseph Stacy Murdock I IN UTAH WITH THE FIRST t WAS EVER FOREMOST I ITS UPBUUDThrG UBUUTG I I Through Times of Stress This Brave Pioneer Wasa Pillar of Strength Honors Came With Years and H Loss I Deeply Mourned By Many Fend and Acquaintances I Special Correspondence Heber Feb 17One by one the founders of our commonwealth are commonwealh passing away The last of the pioneers to join the majority on the other side I vas Joseph Stacy Murdock who as stated in yesterdays Herald died in Ileber City at 4 oclock Wednesday I afternoon The cause of death was la grippe which developed into rmeu momo The deceased had a most interesting and active career He was born June 2G 1822 at Hamilton Madison county I N Y His fathers family rmbraced i Mormonism in their native town in 1S2SSome Some time after this the family started start-ed for the body of the church which at this time was located at auvoo lilt By this time young Murdock was about UO years of age Before starting out with his father and the other members mem-bers of the family he concluded he vould marry Miss Eunice Sweet W asa as-a noble young lady who also believed in the new religion and he proposed u her and they were married just prior to starting on their journey for Nauvoo where they arrived in 1842 and met the prophet Joseph Smith Old Father Murdock turned all his property over to the church and in return received re-ceived his inheritance in Zion under the direction of the prophet Young Murdock became well ac quaintKl with Joseph and Hyrum often titling under their teachings On March 21 1S43 he received his patnarchial blessing under the hands of H j rum Smith Among other things he was promised that he should have a numerous posterity a very peculiar promise since the young man had been married a number of years and his I da ehi wife had as yet bore no children In Is4 the young man was ordained a sev nty under the direction of the prophet opph I I At the expulsion of the Saints from NAUVOO he with his wife mother sis ur and two brothers started for the Hooky Mountains the father having died l > previous to the eximlslon from the city While the body of the church w as on the banks of the Missouri river void came for 500 ablebodied men togo to-go and light the nations battles with Mexico Like a true patriot Mr Mur IUK k turned his charge over to the care of line of his younger brothers a mere JaU and volunteered his services to his countiy Being an excellent hand with Cattle I however he was excused from military life and placed in charge of the cattle of those who joined the Mor iiuni Battalion He continued the journey jour-ney across the plains and arrived in bait Lake alley Sept 22 1847 when the new home of the Saints was less than two months old lu 1S43 he a called by President di ham Young to go back to Green rer and aeset the Saints who were cuming to Zion The year 1S62 came and still the subject of this sketch was childless But in the fail of 1852 the young man took a second wife His wife Eunice gave her husband the hand of Miss Eliza Clark by whom he had two children He married again this lime taking two wives Jane Sharp and Elizabeth Hunter and in 1S5S be married Pernetta Murdock an Indian grl In 1856 President Young called him to take his family and assist in settling I lfl valley When word reached t President Youmr in 1S57 that John t I 01 S arrry was on its way to Utah the Carson valley settlers were called I back to Salt Lake City In the fall of that year he took his family and located f lo-cated in American Fork On Nov 15 1SCO he was ordained a bishop under the hands of Brighom Your and sent to preside over the t people who were locating Wasatch county and therefore was first bishoD of Heber While acting in that capacity capac-ity he served one term a representative f representa-tive of the county In the territorial legislature leg-islature In 1857 he with others was I called to settle St Joe on the Muddy t Nevada He remained there three years when he was released by President Presi-dent Young to return home to Provo valley While on his way home he set se-t cred a contract from the government i for carrying the mal from Provo to r Echo via Provo canyon and continued in this business for a number of years c He was a pioneer in every sense of the f word always engaged in building up r new country and malting peace with the Indians He had a magnetic influence j over the red men who would always f I listen to him In 1889 lIe was arraigned before Judge ii Blackburn at Provo for Infringement f 1 of the EdmundsTucker law His first wife had died years before and he was advised to marry one of his nlural wives and repudiate the others He r was a firm believer In the principle of plural marrlase and obeyed the principle feeling from the depths of his jr > c l > no nqn could I I 4 persuade him to repudiate any of his wives They ha been true to him and he could not go back on the sabred Bromides he made with them in the days of their outh He was sentenced to a term of one month in the territorial terri-torial penitentiary for unlawful cohab itation The aged gentleman by this timeTiad fully convinced the judge of his honesty Committal papers were handed him and he was allowred to gO from the court room unattended by guard Uf went back home to visit his family then went down to Salt Lake and presented his own committal papers at the penitentiary was laHen in and served out his sentence of one month In the days of the Black Hawk troubles Mr Murdock took a leading hand In settling the Indian uorisings of those days When Wasatch stake was organized he wasmade president of the high council which position he held at the time o his death He always al-ways manifested implicit confidence in JMormonism even ao the hour of s death He was the husband of five wives the father of thirtytwo chil dren and had 137 grandchildren ana six greatgranachildren a total posterity of 175 so he lived to see the words ot Patriarch Hyrum Smith fulfilled to the very letter Three of his wives and seven of his children had preceded him to the great beyond church He was known throughout the entire j + + + 1 ± + + 1 w + + ir4 + I lp4raIh + w 1 + 1 A j 1 + 4 1I I 1 I 11 + c + + + la + + 4 + JOSEPH STACY MUKEOCK 4 + + + + + iJ1 + 44 + + + + + i Ap + + + + + ± + + 4414i4 + + + + + + |