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Show Mrs. JBathsheha W. Smith Dies at Residence of Daughter Tuesday. PROMINENT MORMON WOMAN PASSES TO LAST REST Was Active Worker and President Presi-dent of the Church Relief Re-lief Society. Mrs. Batlishoba Wilson Smith. SS years old, prcsidont, of. tho Itelicl" society so-ciety of tho Mormon church and a prominent (ijrure at tho semiannual conferences of the church, died at tho rcsidonco of her daughter, Mrs. Clarence Clar-ence Merrill. 1275 Brov.-ninK avenue, at 10:15 Tuesday morning. For nearly two daj's prior to her death Mrs. Smith was in a stnlo of coma. About three months, ago site was stricken with paralysis par-alysis ami since that thntj wns practically prac-tically coulincd to her bed. Mrs. Smith's daughter and her grandchildren grandchil-dren surrounded hor bedside as she peacefully passod away. Bathshclm Wilson Smith was born May .'5, 182:2, at Shinnstcu, Harrison county, XV. Ya, She was the daughter of Mark Biglor and Susannah Ogden, hor father having come from Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, her mother from Maryland. Move to Nauvoo. In 1840 the Biglcrs moved to Nauvoo. July 25, 18-11. Bathshcba w.th married to George A. Smith, then the youngest of the council of tho twelve anoslles. He was first cousin to Iho Prophet Joseph. Jo-seph. About this time, it is said, that Mrs. Smith heard Prophet Smith chargo the apostles regarding the ordinances of endowments en-dowments and sealing for tho living and the dead. She was often in prnyr with the prophet and her husband. At .Vauvoo Mrs. Smith gave birth to a son and a daughter. In 1S(50 the sou was sent on a mission to the Mormi Indians and was killed by tho IS7ava,io Indians. Mrs. Smith reached Salt Lake with a party October, 1841). She and her family fled to tho south before tho Johnston nnr.y. Three months afterwards after-wards the family returned to Zion. Busy in Reliof Work. Mrs. Smith belonged to the first Eo-liof Eo-liof society organized at Nauvoo, March 17. 1842. where the Prophet Joseph Jo-seph Smith presided. She officiated in the Nauvoo iomplo; actod as first counselor coun-selor to Prcsidont Rachel Grant in tho Ifoliof society of the Thirteenth ward of this city; was a counselor to M'ar' I. Home in tlio General Retrenchment association as-sociation in the Fourteenth ward, and acted as treasurer of the Relief society of the Salt Lake stake. She also for years worked in tho endowment house, and was one of the board of diroctors of the DeseroJ. hospital. For years sho was treasurer of tho Seventeenth ward l?elief society, of which she was subsequently subse-quently president. On October :n, J001. Mrs. Smith wns selected by the presidency of tho church to preside over the Eelie'f society iu all tint world, and this action was unanimously unani-mously ratified by a conference of the 'Mormons on Novembor 10, 1001, attended attend-ed by 10,000. Sho held tliis position up to the timo of her death. |