Show h PROPHETS SISTER DEAD Last Survivor of Jos Smiths Family Passes Away ONE OF THE FIRST MORMONS I I I Mrs Catharine Salisbury Sister of I the Founder of Tilonnonism Dies at tho Ago of 87 Aunt ot Patriarch Pa-triarch John Smith and Mrs C S Nichols of this City Came to Illinois Illi-nois with the Mormons but Had Never been to UtahWas a Strong Woman Mentally and Physically Mrs Catharine Salisbury sister of tho prophet Joseph Smith nnd the last survivor of that family died at her home h In Fountain Green Iii on February 1st at the age of eighty I seven Mrs Salisbury was one of the I first six members of the Mormon church and lived through many trying I and exciting incidents She was always I al-ways known as a woman of remark I ably strong character and retained her physical and mental faculties almost al-most unimpaired until the time of her I death Although an octogenarian she was able to read and sew without the aid of glasses and took a lively Interest I Inter-est In all topics of tho day The direct cause of her death was cancer of tho stomach Mrs Salisbury was born at Lebanon N 11 in isii In 1831 she was married to Wllklns J Salisbury and survived him almost fifty years She camu with the Mormons as far n Illinois but when the emigration across the plains took place she remained in Illinois and had been never In Utah Of n goodsized family three sons survive her Don Carlos Solomon and Frederick Fred-erick Salisbury John Smith the patriarch of the church Is a nephew of Mrs Salisbury and Mrs C S Nichols und her two children C A Nichols of The Tribune and Mrs Mose ChrIstensen of Ogden Orden are also relatives Mrs Nichols being a niece of Mrs Salisbury |