Show HOWARD CO CORAY RAY ANSWERS CALL Old Resident of Utah Dies at Ripe Age of 91 Years S SECRETARY TO PROPHET WAS WA CLOSE FRIEND OF JOSEPH SMITH Howard Coray Corny for many years ears sec see secretary secretary to Joseph Smith and his close friend till rhe time Ime of his death died yesterday esterday at the ripe age of ni years The circumstances of liLt his death were most unusual and despite lila his Is ex extreme extreme extreme age his death may be said to be bean bean bean an untimely one Only last Saturday while rising from his bed he ho felt fell in such a manner as to break his thighbone thigh thighbone jone bone and the result of this was really the cause of his death He died at the home borne of a daughter Mrs EpplEr Eppie Lewis Lewison on cn Ninth East street Howard Coray was born in 1817 In Dansville N Y When hen a young man he went ent to th Pennsylvania with his fath lath father lathI I er Silas Coray where the family made madeI I their home in Scranton Later the theelder theelder theelder elder Coray moved to the west and here Howard became acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith and was later employed as a his ills secretary secret ry doing the tile work of an amanuensis for several years in the offices of the Mormon church He had left Bloomington col cot college college lege In Illinois and the teachings of Lyman Beecher then the tile head of that institution to follow his religious con convictions convictions convictions and so great was the absorption absorption absorption tion of both father and son in religious matters that the title to valuable val able lands indeed of the township of Scranton which was In the name of Silas Coray Corny was allowed to lapse by statute of limitations and was as a consequence forfeited It was wa in Nauvoo while acting as sec eec secretary OC for Joseph Smith that he was married to Martha Jane Knowlton To Together Together Together gether they crossed the plains in 1850 coming to Utah The house in which they lived in Nauvoo is still standing although the windows and doors in It Ithe Ithe ithe he sold for 10 when he lie was leaving there Shortly after coming to 10 Utah Mr Cray Coray became one of the writers in the church historical offices and ho me e built builta a house adjoining the Salt Lake thea theatre theatre theatre tre The property on which it stood one hundred feet frontage on East Firs First South street he lie later sold for f r or thereabouts He has held clerical poet positions in the tile church all his ills life tile and andias Jias been a teacher for many years inthe In the church schools Mr Coray Corsy was the father f ther of twelve tw lve children nine of whom are living Fifty Fifty If ty grandchildren and great grandchildren are arc also living He was the father of Howard K Sidney K William H George Q Frank D L L Land Land Land and Don Doll R B Coray the youngest who died In 1899 1859 Arrangements for the funeral have ha hanot not yet been made but it will proba probably probably bly be held Sunday in Provo where his wife and his bis three children are buried burled |