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Show A ItltlEP SKKTCII Of His Life and llsalh of lli.li,ii lid-u lid-u anl lliiulrr or (Iraitsi lllr. Wo havo Just rwelved (rather late) A.oomniunicntloii regardiug the career of vx.lllshop lMward Hunter, of Urantivllle, who died at his home at that place nn tho I Ith instant. The decra-cl was a nephew of the lain rnaldltif- lllshopIUIwardlluntir, and was Wrn at Delaware county, 1'eniiBjlvaula, on thu !9:hof Marcli, 1S.1. Hisfatherwas uu agrlcultiirlet, and Hdward remalnod on the farm until January Ulh, ISI1, at whkli time, at Uulonsville, Cluster county, In his nallvoHtite, ho cast his lot with Ihe Latter-day Hlllits nud weut with Hum to Nniivoo. tin November Sth, IS II, he was marrlid to Mary Ami Whlusldss by Ihe I'alrlanli llyruni rtiulth. Ho shared heroically thi jM'rsucudoua and hardship of the Latler-day Hulnta when they wero driven from Illinois, and when they took up their ni.ii.li across tlio unknown wilderni.a ho ac comiauh-J them aa far ua Council ItlutTs where lie enlisted in Hie i-ausii of his country July lath. lotd, by Joining the "llor-iiii.n" "llor-iiii.n" Ustta'1,11 na a vidiinliir. Hiipnrllcljted In allol tho vlclssh tudi-saud triumphs or that tx.dy uf bravu and honest men, and was honorably discharged from service on July lUth, 18, He urn n alitrwards left the 1'sclflo coast and arrived lu Halt Lake City In October HI Ihe fob lowing year, svbere he nut his wife and i hlld, who had com- lo Utah with tho first companies of Ihe I 'Iiiiieers. I'rom that lime until the "move" he lived alternately in Halt l-aacCity and Kayaville, During thu summer of mi he went to Urautsvllle an J tr.1,1-edtluru tr.1,1-edtluru until his uemlse. In 1S7T he waa i-hoseu Ilishop of that lace, aud served In that rapacity for eleven years, and suoceedel lu endearing himself to tho htarti of thu people by wis loin nod generosity. In lass he rtslgnid hla otllce as lilshop ou nc ount or III health. During the last time yeara he was a constant Invalid. He leuviiu numerous and tci-ctd inutility. inu-tility. Two wives, twenty children sixty. five grandchildren and one great grand child are lei! to m .urn his uenlh. The Hunter family has ever bieu known lor Ihelr rugged nnd luatitiy constitutions. Only ouo child and llvo grandchildren of the ileceused have prefeded lilm to ihe unseen world. Funeral services weru held in the (irantavllle meeting house, April loth, beginning at 2 p, in, A host of tela-tlvea tela-tlvea and friends shoaed their rceiect for Ine dead by tbelr presence. Consoling Consol-ing and lustnicl.vo remarks were IiiadO by President Joseph I', Koilth, Apostle ..'. M, Lyman, Trialdeut, II, H, tlotvaus, of the Tootle Slake, and l.lder William JeUVrlis. riio grave was deJic-tied by l'lesldent Biiilth. Illsiiop Hunter was a tnan of many excellent MUalltles, chief of which' was hla charity to those In ueel, His virions will llvo Inn? Illtheluiluolles of lliuko who kuew him best. |