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Show Ooituary. ItosxNKY Died, aftor a short illness, in SL George, Washington counly, Utah, Miles liomnuy. llu was born at Dalton-in-Fumoss. Lancashire, England, July 15, lbud, heard the preaching ot Ihe first .Latter-day .Latter-day Saint eldrs who landed in England, Eng-land, in the old Cockpit, Preston; embraced em-braced the gospel ia September, 1837, and was ordained an elder; emigrated with his family to Nauvoo, April 1, 1841; labored on the temple there fron. us commencement to iU completion On the exedus of the saints from tia place, without, means to go with Ihem westward, he moved with his family t Burlington, Iowa, and the follow in: year to St. Louij, Mo. By persistent loi, he accumulated an outlit and left thai place on the ISth of March, JdOU, travel ling v land, with ox ieams, from Alton, lemons, to Salt Lake city, whure he arrived ar-rived October 12 of tho same year. d camped for Ihe winter in tent-and tent-and wagons on the Temple Block talt Lake city. His youngest child, who afterwards died,, and his olde.-t grandctiild were born there. Ho whi ona of ihe oresidenta of th 29th quorum f seventies. He was foreman fore-man of the public carpenter shops fron, 1661 to lboli, aL Ihe spring conference o: which year he was called on a nmsio to England, where h labored in Manchester Man-chester district until his rclurn home iii 1858. lie was called to go to "Dixie" in 18G2, first settling at Grafton, on lh-iiio lh-iiio Virgen; atterwards whs called to St. George, ilo was Bupurintendentof public pub-lic works, and laboroi zealously in the erection of the tabernacle and temple of that place. Be was a kind father and a steadfast friend, liberal in his views and charitable to all, without fanalicism, yet firm in hi? faith, lie died as he had lived, in full faith and fellowship, lie leaves a wif-(herself wif-(herself ili), seven children, flily-sovcn ; grand-children, five grat grand-children, and a numerous circle of friends t mourn his departure. Ho was ono of the noblest works of tiod, "an honest man." Com. |