Show Mrs Eliza N Nelson Mother of County Treas Laid to Rest The funeral of Eliza S Bryson Nelson was held in the South Bountiful chapel April 23 with I I Counselor Merit Egan conducting The music was furnished by the I ward choir their first num number er I be-I be- be be ing ing- being Though Deeping Beeping Trials Throng Your Way The invocation tion by bJ Goudy Hogan was w-as follow follow- followed follow follow-ed ed cd by a trio composed of Mrs Ida Hatch Miss Emma Lawrence and Mi Miss Mis s LLila Lee entitled Mother Dear Harvey H Sessions Jr a nephew of the dc deceased eased was the I first speaker He paid tribute tribute- to I her as a mother and a homemaker Miss Evelyn Bri Briggs played gs a aI I violin solo accompanied by Miss Ardell Hogan Former Bishop MissI of South Bountiful Samuel S How how how- howard Howard I ard spoke of her devotion to her religion ion and her work among the poor and needy Jerod Brown I the solo Goodbye Sweet Jay JOSeph Josepn 1 j spoke principally on the Mormon beliefs j in the immortality immo lity of the soul Th The choir san sang Abide With Me after af r which Stearns Steams Hatch offered the benediction The Tho grave was dedi- dedi dedic dedicated c ted by Patriarch Harvey Sessions Ses Ses- Sessions of Logan Log Eliza S Nelson was born ir in Glasgow Scotland June 13 1854 1853 She was the daughter of Samuel Samue and Sara Ann Conray Con ray Bryson When one year old her parents immigrated to Utah Ut They were wen eleven weeks on the ocean Her early days lays were spent in the home hom thi o of her parents She endured the th difficulties of pioneer life assisting her parents to make a home married On November ember 22 1869 she mar afar mar ned ried Jens Nelson in the Endow Endow- Endowment ment meat house She was married by b Joseph F Smith Soon after alter their marriage they left by team for fo Nevada where her husband haul haul- hauled hauled hauled ed edore ore from Pioche to the mills milla in They returned the follow mg lag summer ummer In 1 1874 they moved to Rich county edin where her husband enga engaged ed in stock raisin raising Thre years later th they y returned to Woods Cross Upon their return she he was chosen chosei first counselor in the Y L M of I A on August 31 1878 A year later latr late she he was chosen president The fol- fol following lowing year sh she resigned resi ned anda and a again ain spent three years ars il in Rich county Upon her return she a again ain took up her work in M I L A serving as counselor to Mrs Salina Sauna Atkinson Later she worked in the Relief so- so society society society first as a teacher and later latet lateras as a counselor to Mrs Mary A Page Pac She served in that capacity for many years and always enjoy enjoy- enjoyed ed helping those in need She was the mother of oC eleven children rearing ten to maturity Two sons one dau daughter and her husband preceded ed her Iler in i in de deh dc- dc Her living living- children are Jens K K h and D M Nelson of Clearfield Sylvanus and Clarence C of oC Woods Cross Harold C Nelson of f North Salt Lake J T E Nelson of Bountiful and Mrs Sarah N Stoker of Salt Lake Lake She also reared a niece whose who mother died at birth She is Mrs Irs Mary Bryson Holbrook of Woods Cross Mrs Nelson suffered a broken hip nearly nineteen months ago o a and since that time has been un- un unable unable able to leave her bed She died at atthe atthe the home of her son Clarence April 21 1933 1033 |