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Show gaLaBSSB WMMifcW I H Stephen Mott Is Summoned. B ' Stephen Mott ane of the llrstscttslera B of Amorican For answered a llnal Bl aummnnd early last Saturday morning, after u well spent and tuelul lite, being B In alt olghty-llfth year, of which flft- H five year has bvn paused In this city. BM Tbo luneral sorvloes wurt hula In f Pcleacb hall Monday atturnoon. Tho stand and pulpit whs bvantllnlly duo- B for tho occasion. Tho Old Ft 1 is choir opened tho sor- H tIh by slDglag "Rust oa the Ulilsldu" B Washburn Chliman was the lirst gT apralce'r, he spoka u( Incidents In tho B errly llfu of ikceafed. Th- Liffler fum- B lly quattot then sang "Whun trie Aug- Bj oil Have Lifted the Veil" Tho next B two speakers being a org Cunning- H ham and WmUrant. H Miss Nan Thornton thn sang a solo B "Ouldo Me to Thee" alter which I.. I'. B Lund dwelt at length uu the life work BB of the deptrted, and hi service during BB the Dlack Hawk war. BlsUup W. H., BB Smith also spoke on the life uf tho tie- 1 deceased followed by thecloslng hymn B "Farwell All Earrtuly Honors" by taa H choir. Tbe bencdli tl jo was pronuunc B ed by president S. L. Cnlpmxn. B BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH DY H In theerly part or the 10th century B there lived lu Las County, Cunada, B a sturdy pioneer couple, ilyrum and B Elizabeth Kuupp Mott. B On ttie seventh day of May,IH!, was B born to ihem Melr first chliiTStephen, BB the subject of this skotch, and iho eld- H est ot a family of flvo nous ana two B daughters. Ills boynuod days were H spent with hU parents lu ihcreilplo B beer life of Canaoa, where thuyro- B DialueU utitil he was nineteen yearn of gggB 1 Atthattlmo 1811, ho removed with gggB hla father's lamlly to Nauvoo. Ulinoln, H kU father, mother, and one brother H having prevloui-ly joluou tho Church B of J-but Cbnst of Latter Day Batnu. B , Atuvuo they remalnod. sharing H the varied exporletices and trials of r' tho Latter Day Stints, till the general K lexoiU of the Saints from that p ucu In ' 184J, wnenihey vruwea h Mlssisstp- jl p river, and crt'leii With many otlitrs H' f. " of tueexlllul)esMcAiit,.Iowa.M'.;Y; B .Hruyw'y-njjt" TJ v ihey'i'reisrplitcii with ox teams Hl- I --ci-'- In Warreu 8ml h'a p.upatiy, arriving B in Utah &ejtojbA"Jth ot the aomo B year ani settling in American Fork, B Whore flro Stephen Mott (fatulliar'y H known as "Uuclo jiovo") lias rando B bis huiiie till the lime f his death, Siuray. Augusi4. 1UJI B A to' y- nftrr itllng in Amorl- H can Fork Bro. Melt became rn uiber of the Churoti of JepusChrlstof Lattti r B Day 3aliU and was shortly ult-rwuro B sent lu company wl hStoi hunChlpman K'- Sr. and vVllliani Henry Chlpmnnto B holp build Deer Creek, a provUlon BB sutlyu for the milligrams between B the .Mlssnurl rlvur and Salt Lake Val- m liy. From this mlml'Ui they were B called to retu u Just previous to tlie p arrival of .lohnbon's Army In Huh. B, During hlallto II o Molt bus married B three wive-: Meiln.a Smith in IW() B Alice Thornton in 185'!; and Mury B Stoddard in 1H 12, all of wiiom hii v v.j B ,llm Tho noubhdrou have b e.i uo u H to cither o( his wives, they have rah- it . B (, thre; lstrs Kaont Chlpman and T Lou'sa II .Miller and Ltro Albert Sitgur B Mott from luf ncy io man ami wjiimii I B hood, and b vo atslstca In the rear l'ig B o1 o.ht-rs nui ably Miuimg tbo m Ulshnp B Warren B. Smith. Ilcautiuly be tald ot Bro. Mott that bo was a "Fahcrtu M the ravtierless" and a frlund to tbuH K , in I V He rem lined a member of the Church B until- the time of his i!iuth, iinJ lus B ever been ready with his mans and . Kl advice to axsiat the unfortunate, as ' By well U "dv uco tliK tuteieN.k of thu Q community flnancUHy niU morally. Bfl Burild w the wives and chllilrcu ' B, named, a hi st of rt-lai vex remain to B" mourn the loss of one of the pluuetrs B of our fair city. |