| Show I AGED PIONEER f CALLED TO REST RESTI I f t I I i Oliver Olver G Workman Passed Away AWa Last Night ight FOUND GOLD NEAR PROVO ALWAYS AWAY REFUSED TO DISCLOSED DISCLOSE DICOS HIS HS is SECRET SECT SECRETO t LIVER R G WORKMAN an aged OLIVER OLIV O pioneer plon er who sacrificed wealth that I f others of f his faith might have ha e homes to live lve in passed away awa at his home Ironic on West street last lat night He lt claimed to have hace ha ce the secret to the location locton of or sold gold g 14 in Provo but kept his secret kept iU it it to prevent the early settlers setters from being ing robbed of ot their homes home and passed away ayay without di dl divulging divulging It I save ave to his wile wife wie She still tilI sti holds the secret ecret untold Mr Workman came C e here with the earliest earlest settlers setters and spent his life Ute as assisting a slating his people to build a city in the mountains mou As 8 a n member of oth the Mor Mormon IQ mon battalion he fought the Indians and carried the flag into Mexico He H was in California when the gold find was vas made tirade but left the wealth there ther to bring his family to Zion In times tres of peace he worked on the temple ana traveled over oer the world preaching the doctrines of his faith Ca tho He H e passed d away way a last night in his year yer as the re result suit sult of oC an attack of dropsy develop developing ing In from Brights disease e was n Tenn Jan 7 ISIT When but 10 years of age he be was baptized into the Mormon ormon church but later removed to Nauvoo where he was teas by b the tIre Prophet Joseph Smith He lived in Nauvoo o until the Mormons were driven out of or there ther then with wih his father crossed the river on the ice and went to Mt r Pisga Fisga later Lter he and his brother Andrew fitt d out wagons and started d across the plains with the Mormons tow towards ards Salt Lake While hie on the way to Council Counci Bluffs Blurs Mr Workman was called tallon caled talo to enlist in the Mormon bat battalion battalo Fought in i Mexican War He served in the second section and ad arrived in Salt Lake in April 1848 He fought the Indians and was wa with the j battalion during the Mexican war He Hea was tas a one of the first men seen who ho raised the I flag in Mexico exico He was wa honorably dis discharged charged from the battalion and after remaining here a year returned east cast to bring his father brother and sister I to Salt Lake LakeIn Lake I In the year 1449 he be was a at mill mi when gold was discovered in Call Cali California Cal I fornia but he returned to the east I again agin to bring others of his family out I After Ater this he was called upon by b Pres Fres President ident Brigham Young to drive the mail mi I wagon across acoss act oar the plains ca to Council Bluffs and made the trip undergoing alt all al the hardships attendant upon such sucha a Journey in those days During his first year cr in the valley vale he was often ten in such straits stis that he had to eat roots Tot to tomake tomke make mke out a meal It I was wa while he was working in Provo that Mr Workman claimed to have dis discovered discovered covered quantities of gold in the city ly but at that time about thirty years ears ago the place was Just being settled ettle and a d hardly any an of the residents resident had bad titles to their ther land Mr Mn Workman ac according according according cording to the statements statement of his wife realized that th t if iC he made it i known that gold had been discovered there the people would be driven from their homes home by b the and those who had settled would be forced d to move nuove elsewhere To avoid avold this he kept the secret and for some reason reason never revealed rev aled it save to his wife who will wil wilnot not tell tel any more than tha this about it even een now Mr lIr Workman was the father of four Tour fourteen fourteen teen children six boys bo s and eight girls Of Ot these six six are living now non and there are grandchildren several grandchildren and great geat |
