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Show Father Birney's Funeral. The funeral service over the remains re-mains of the- Lite Itoy.l! Barney was held iu ths Eighth Ward mect-iiig-houeyc4erday afternoon. The oiK'iihig piayer was offered by Bishop Wm. Thorn, of the .Seventh Ward. The sjakcrs wero Eldtrs Hamilton . Park. Charles Bassett. Solon Foster ami Wm. Cahoon, and Bishop Wm. Thorn and E. F. Shuts. They spoke of thu sterling integrity if the deceased, the many trials hu hat passed through, ani his unwavering failii during tin fifty nine years of his member-hip in the Church. The clo-Ing paytr ws offtred by Elder Jdi-ili McMurrlu. Father Barney was a native ol E'lisb-m Ji'llirsnn County, New Vork, having he?n lorn there Dsc. 1,, lsi's-. ills antrstnrs ranie from England In VV.. The warofthe iievoliitlon, and alsu that of 1M2, iiiiniberisIa.ojig the soldiers In the Amerieanariny thereof his m-gen Itnn who were a In to lieararm, and Brother Barney was huiii-h a ciptnin in the Ohio milit.a at the ai?' of 21 years. He In Id hlc-ii:ii.'lisl -ii for live j curs, al tile expiration of which time he received an honurable discharge from Uie g-ivernor. He -a-wln! liieil into the Chuttli M-y f. 11, awl was a nu-T.'or ' Z'onV ("amp. Hr move.! tn Klrtland i-i -T't, to Nau-roo Nau-roo In IS II. In Winter c,-'tera iu l-'s7,and to Utah in It.Vi. Fietiuit he whs driven firm his home by niolai, and narro-'- c-caietl asKLsai-uatlon. asKLsai-uatlon. When the first quorum ot Seventies was organized he uas or-diiiicd or-diiiicd a Seventy by the Prophet Jo-eph cmlth. He w as afterwards matin oic-of the Presidents id the tenth quonim, and was its Senior President at the time cf Jus cealu. He leavis 12 ehi! tre-i, II grandchildren, grand-children, mill a numlier of great-grand-ch.lilrtn. |