Show DEATH OF A 0 SMOOT HE PASSED AWAY STJIUIOTOTDED Br HIS F AY The Deceased Was One ot the Best IxnoTra Men In Utnli He Wwi the Second l Major of Salt Infce City Outline of His Busy Life Hon Abraham O Smoot the second mayor of Salt Lake city and afterwards after-wards of Provo city exmember of the Utah legislature and of the provisional government of the state of Deseret and for Tnany years president of the Utah county tae of ZIon died at his residence in Provo Utahr yesterday at 4 oclock p m President Smoot had been ailing tor sometime but was not considered to bft seriously 111 until he suddenly became worse a few days before his demise His body will He In state at the tabernacle in Provo from 1 a m until un-til 1 p m on unday next The nex funeral services will begin at the latter lat-ter hour Abraham O moot wag born on the 17th of February 1315 In Owen county Kentucky His father George W Smoot was from Prince Edward county Virginia and his mother Ann Rowlett was from the same state and county They migrated from Virginia to Kentucky in 1S12 On the fathers side he is of Scotch origin Grandfather Grand-father Smoot emigrated from Scotland and settled on the eastern shores of Maryland His wife Nancy Beal was from England They emigrated y A l A pI 5 I 1 AU O < yJ about the same time and were married mar-ried in America When Abraham was seven years of age his parents moved from his native place to the western part of Kentucky and when he was about thirteen years old to a short distance across the state line into Tennessee where he lived till he embraced the gospel and came west His father belonged to no church nor did his mother tl she became identi led with the Xiattlerday Saints His father died in 1828 before the church was founded President l Wllford Woodruff then hojdfrvg the office of a dnl with priest was laboring company wlh Elder Warren Parish as a missionary In the southern states suffering great hardships A 0 Smoot was baptized March 22 1825 by Elder Warren Soon after joining the church he was ordained R deacon and given charge of a small branch which had been built up by Apostle Uavid W Patton and Elders Wilforfl Woodruff and Warren War-ren Parrish He served in the capacity of deacon from May 1835 to February 4 13G when ho was ordained an elder by Wilford Woodruff with whom he traveled as a missionary mis-sionary for about a year in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee In the fall of 1S2G he went to tOrt Woodruff where land Ohio with Elder Woodrff the body of the1 church first gathered Here they spent the ensuing winter together attending the Klrtland high School choal Early in 1857 the Prophet Joseph advised 9 ad-vised Elder Smoot to return to Kentucky Ken-tucky as the northern climate did hut agree with his health He returned to his native state but oon afterwards he and H G Sherwropa orgnnlzed t company of Saints and led them to Far West Caldwell county Missouri at which place the body of the church had been located after having been driven from Jackson county Having I With Elder Sherwood led thp company Ito I-to the then headquarters of the church Elder Smoot continued traveling in the ministry preaching till the latter part of 1S3S when the Saints were driven from the state of Missouri He was at Far West as one of its active delrnd ers when that Mormon city fell before I the combined force of the militia and mob of the state under command of General Clark whose speech to the prisoners or war after the prophet his brother Hyrum and Parley P Pratt and others of the leaders had given themselves up stand as one of the moat barbaric speeches that ever fell from the lips ol any officer in modern times O Smoot one civil or military A was of those prisoners of war While a prisoner he marred his first wife Martha T HoMeans They frst were married on the 11th < of November Novem-ber ISIS In the February following they left Missouri in the general expulsion ex-pulsion of the Saints from that tate Their outfit was very meagre conslst Ing of n small wagon and a span of horses yet they took with them the family of John L Butler afterwards bishop of Spanish Fork consisting of his wife and five children They mtdu their way as best they could into Illinois Il-linois through the storms of winter and arrived at Quincy on the 8th of March Here they recruited A few months and then moved on to Nauvao early in the summer After settling his wife in Nauvoo Elder Smoot again left his home to travel in the ministry He traveled In the southern states and introduced the gospel in Charleston South Carolina Caro-lina His last mission after the martyrdom martyr-dom of the prophet was t > > gather up the Saints of the southern states for the Journey to the Kooky Mountains In the exodus from Illinois he lad a company to Winter Quarters and was the captain of oneof the pioneer companies In the Journey to the valley of the Great Salt Lake His tompany which was organized at the rendez vouz of the Horn river was the largest on the road that season and consisted of 120 wagons I was the second company com-pany that arrived after the pioneers in 1847 187 He was elected a member of the first high council in the organization of the Great Salt Lake stake He vrlxs also the first justice of the peace that ever acted in Utah and during the great California gold fever overland immigration immi-gration he was called upon to adjudicate adju-dicate many Important cases In the fajl of 1840 he went back to the Missouri river on business and In partnership with Jedediah M Grant brought the second train of merchandise merchan-dise that was ever brought ta Utah In the fall of 1851 Elder Smoot was called to go in a mission to England arriving there January 1 1852 In the year 52 an extra effort was made to emigrate the poor saints from Europe large funds were sent from her fot that purpose and the result was l very large emigration over Q L i which Elder Smoot had sole charge and arrived In Salt Lake city car Sep tember 3 After the death of Jedediah M ot Grant the first mayor of Great gait Lake city A O Smoot in November 1856 was elected by the city council to fill the vacancy and at he regular election In February 1857 be was unanimously un-animously elected mayor of Great Salt Lake city He remained in charge of the city during the Utah war moved with the people south at the exodus and returned to the city with the people peo-ple after the conclusion of peace and resumed his duties as its chief magistrate magis-trate He was by repeated elections continued in office till February 1SGG He was also alderman of the Fifth municipal ward for four years before being elected mayor A O Smoot was also one of the members of the provisional government govern-ment of the rotate of Deseret and after declining the mayorship in 1S66 he served twelve years In the upper house of the Utah legislature He went to Provo early in 1858 and was elected mayor in February of the same year He served Provo a mayor for fourteen years without pay as he also had served Salt Lake city without any salary I sal-ary for ten years He was the president and one of the principal originators of the Provo Woolen Mills and Manufacturing company com-pany of Z C li r I the Provo bank and other institutions and was in fact the financial backbone of the business concerns of Utah county since he first settled there Besides the ecclesiastical offices already I al-ready mentioned he filled with honor the calling of bishop of the Fifteenth ward of this city from 1849 to 1851 of South Cottonwood in 1852 and of SugarHouse House from April 1854 to 1S5G He 4 z J r 1ki 1kifrI4 t ttCN ° t 1L 5JIOOT was for many years and up till the I time of his death the president of the I Utah countystake of ZIon He was in every respect in all the varied scenes I and conditions of his long and useful career a bright and shining light and will long be missed by the entire people |