| Show DEATH OF UIMIOP POLLIRD f I I TESTEKDVY wo announced the V I V Tifiai EjiKop lollar3Sr the r t I Fifteenth V ard tills city iras serf l I oub jril He had iten Uireringfor t i eereral days from an attack ofF of-F 4 inflaenra Pneumonia snpervened V and tIe good old man f aed peacefully V peace-fully to110 fPJrit world at Jive V oclock Ibis morning Feb loth S In order to find a more honest man V than Joseph Pollard it would be 1 necessary to scrape the world over J th lou bly with a mammoth dragnet I drag-net and the jabor of porting over beforereachlngthcoljectof pursuit 1 0 V c would be s task of such magultuile V i tnattbeundertaking weuld be alan > 1 t donedasahopelessenterpn < < e Aser I t I lingcbaracter was lie a trifle blunt V 1 f I being phenomenally outspoke V b with a heart as tender as that cia f V a child The people of his bisbopK V V loved him because they believed in I him Although he was ready with I t sharp reproof for the evildoer and V laggard ho was equally prompt InV dispensing swett words of consolation V consola-tion and comfort to the unfortunate 1 I anJ erring Silo sincerity was V sublime bis devotion to what he I V V conceived to be his duty inspiring i and we believe that we do not overstate t over-state the facts when we say tliat V > l probably no other Bishop in the I 1 Church was more familiar with his t I Bode caliecticl and Individually J than the deceased It greatly to V i his credit that the poor among his f people were the special oljects of his t r solicitude t He wus not an educated man so V I faras scholastic attainments concerned V I con-cerned but he had that specica oft of-t r 1J power which exists through a combi nalisn of native good sense ripened experience and a conscientious regard t re-gard for trufli These qualities gavel gave-l V him a strong influence in his ward V V V and caused his wuhcs to be instinot V Ively respected V i Joseph Pollard was born at Corfe V Castle Dorsetshire England Sot V V Sm 1SI9 and was consequent inV 1 in-V J thoTlSt year of his nie He emI V em-I I Cr braced the Gospel as revealed anew J 1 through Joseph Smith the Prophet j in an early day lie left his native country for this land and V arrived In Salt Lake City In the fall V of Iss He was set apart as second counselor to Bishop Andrew Cun j V ningham of the Fifteenth Ward in 1561 In ISO Bishop Cunningham 1 resigned and was succeeded bj Ko i bert T Burton to whom Brother V V Pollard acted in the capacity of First Counselor On June 7lh 1S77 the ward was leorganized Jot Jo-t 1 eph Pollard being ordained Bishop i I with William L13inLlerlind V V and X V s Jones his Jq9aas counselors This wss t the Bishopric at the time of Brother V i Pollarda death this morning i The respected dead leaves behind behilnOV V him to mourn thcjlcparture of their V lieaJ a wife seven children all daughters ant twenty seven grandchildren V grand-children The deceased was by trade a carpenter S car-penter and fur several jean was in the employ of President Brigham L n iyoun for whose memory he cher V f V lObes a fond regard For the last eighteen years hcwas In the employ V J V V of the Utah Central Itulvray and In i his dally vocation as in every other o sphere in utuch he operated vasa careful and conscientious laborer V V Death carneto him as a sweet harbinger VV har-binger of rest nhich had no terrors I V Jor him Several times of late in I V tbe hearing of thewnter bespoke V of the near approach of the end when in his usual health saying he V was ready at any time the Inn wanted him on the oilier V r V side He had been bum Tcmpo f and performed what workwas within I V hill power or his dead kindred and I he felt he could meet them in the V brighter land without having any compjnctinus as he had lone his V duty with respect to UIOo who had preceded him to the extent of his ability V V V We together with a host of others I V sympathize with the bereaved V family while at tlio ame time convinced V con-vinced that Bishop Pollard was t fully prepared to take his departure having made his calling and election V elec-tion sure The funeral service will be con V J 4 V fdBctedattbuFiiUenth Ward meeting V meet-ing house at 1231 ocl jck on Thursday V Thurs-day February 7th V |
