Show death at al uary vale editor E enquirer er utah aug 31 1696 1 I write to rm tha relatives and friends of the death of martha C ferris my wife at this place on august 24 at y pm p m her illness was nervous debility caused by uteri abiel took her away in some ten days sic sickness 1 she leaves her husband and five children io mourn the great loss loaa of wife and mottier la in her last hours she ehe nave cave the strongest t testimony ot of ler faith in the church of jesus christ of cf latter day sainte saint aad arousing at times would say eay aoh oh what white robes there are in heaven that I 1 am going to wo war ar I 1 am gong going to my dear little lottie and gr grandma andina and my own real mother they are here seel see seel and many other expressions that showed that she was crossing the river to that land of eternal day slate ferris ferns was the daughter of david fredack Fredr ck of the mormon batal lion and was born at the in california her mother died leaving her in the care of jane W hanks the wife of ebernezer Ebe cezer hanks when she was only thirteen months old the name by which she wits WAS known was martha hanks JOHS S |