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Show One of the Pioneers. Our issue of Saturdsy contained a brief statement of tlie death of the aged veteran JIaiis C. Hansen, but as the following communication coutalns a Iditional data, it Is cheerfully cheer-fully inserted: Hans C. Hansen, ono of the pioneers or 1SIT, iwsse.1 suddenly away on tho rooming of tho loth Inst., accd S3 vears, 10 uiontlisand I. days. TUo deceased de-ceased was born in tho city of topen-liajen, topen-liajen, and belonged to tho navy, baaing when niuetccn years old Joined tho seraicc. Ho scracd five a-ean, eoinp twice to tho West Indies nnd once to Iceland. On leaving tbe navv he went In a merchant ship to China. Afterwards bo left his nattae land ami mado ms uonio in '-"""' Mass., from whenco ho sailed for South America, and studied tbe science sci-ence of naaigation. ltrollicr Hansen joined iho Kreeiiusonsand for umo lima bclonpasl to tho llaptlst Church. In 1315. however, bo found tho true Church of Ctinst and imrne. I-atoly I-atoly associated himself with It. After this ho desired to carry abrotd tho Go;rl ' and left In tho ship !Viw, bound for Moltin, hoping to sai peilon to leaao tho ship when passing Copenhagen. Copen-hagen. IhU upon arriving there tlio captain refuse! to allow him to go off, whereupon he wrolo a fo'e0!""': a-o in a short loiter which tho pilot hookasi.oro for him. While in btetlin he beant from me. his brother, tho lovfut newa that I hadrecciaeatho letter ai a divino messago.and was borousbly coualnced. ItaturninB to iSwon, the .Ucsued put out for J.cw OtIeaus,and Journeyed """" toNauvoo fo? the purpose of seeing tlio l'ropbol Joscpli. . Ho avis ordaine.1 aSca enty,returnod to lloston, lupuro.1 mo and " went to Nauaoo, where ho vrorke.1 at tbo Tcmplo and also at tent-maVing. Ho rcch;l his endowments, married, iml aftcrwanl left for tho west with Ilebera Klmbair.comiany. In the gnrlne of 1817 tlio deceased went as a woneer to Salt Lake Valley, and worked with the carpenters on tho Temple blik for two and a half ycais. Sinw lhat he had lived In Sanpete nd sieY. In 1S02 ho went on a mission m'loenmark.-n.o deceased was a lover of good reading and delighted In In-leUlgent In-leUlgent cona eration, especially on ,h0shubJectof'-MooaUn.j.sMv jIasti. October 10. lcW. |
