Show JOHN STAHLE STABLE CALLED an octogenarian of swiss descent who had been a resident of bountiful nearly half century john stable sr passed away very unexpectedly at all it a qu quarter ar past 11 sun day night for the year or two he hasteen has boon gi ka weak or but after tardor operation for ur t tho the eye lust last september ho h ot lan failing tiling fi faster both eyu eye with cataracts and alit thought of going 0 O totally alitia caused him great mental anglety there was nothing lie he dreaded so much its as blindness this all helped to hasten the end he had a very strong constitution notwithstanding that lie he vasa was a very hard worker till all his I 1 life and was up nights a great deal visiting and administering to the sick of tho the ward the writer remembers one instance where a foreigner who could not talk en english lish wid icho v ho had no r relatives 1 I n nor or friends except a wife who likewise lad had not learned the language lay sick in ili bed till all summer deceased sat up with him every night and worked days just the same saine as if lie ho had had bad his rest he was a man no who stretched tho the long summer days a at t both ends john stable sr was vas born in in canton thurnau Thur gau switzer switzerland and eighty years a ago go the 6 ath of last tuly july is near tho the city of constance tile the groat afe e former was burned at the take stake whon when tits his school days were over he went to canton guerich Zu erich where ho he work fed in a tannery for many years in this town he met susannah bauman who became his wife A short time after the ma marriage ari the stable family composed of joachim and catherine stable the parents and jacob and john stahle stable and wife and mrs barbara and husband emigrated to utah the pother her died just before the long journey with ox teams was started across the plains the party arrived in utah in october of 1862 after remaining in salt lake a month or two the deceased moved to bountiful where holiver till the time of his death his wife preceded him to lo t the he great beyond by nearly s six ix years Nine children were born to them two children died in childhood and a daughter mary at about twenty one those living are john stable jr publisher of this paper county attorneys tor tori leys henry W stable mrs david stoker jr mrs airs prank frank wright mrs charles T harrison hamson and M mrs rs harold hardy funeral services were hold in thelast the east bountiful tabernacle wednesday at I 1 p in eight el ders the same number as testified to the authenticity of the book of merman occupied close to tin an hour and a half pointing out tile the many beautiful traits of character that the deceased possessed and how ho be had accomplished everything lie he had bad set out to do when he ho joined the chur church oh of jesus christ of latter day saints in his native land it was stated that he had a fixed purpose and never deviated from it it was pointed out that every living creature that came in contact with him was bene fitted by his bis having lived in the world the speakers were elders samuel smedley alfred burning hum ham amos cook john H barlow tr jr president J H grant joron jaron tolman bishop string hani and D 0 willey t tile tho remains were laid to test rest in tile tho bountiful cemetery bas do tits his wife |