| Show I k I j I jll li OBITUARY I I 11 I IA IrI AILVN WILCOX il I Samuel Allen Wilcox Rn died of r Paralysis at Car Furt Utah count 11010 April 7 1898 Deceased was born Mac 22 1819 In I York state Ht Lawrence county making him event J nine Years and fifteen day old He bcd the Gospel ot Jesus ChristI ffl yUl I Christ-I 6ia 011IN990101 A IalcrdaY Slut the 1th or Sop embor IS9n Moved 10 1In met ifterorArdn calld Nauvoo October 9 1frword 10 and his faithful wife Martha ilrnanyo Ih tll an I purse u Ions which 1100 Saints passed trough at Nallvou mllloh I a erronall r ocqualntd wllh the I rht lolly Joseph nnd lln mlh ld unn bore testimony or thor dlln Iy W ouch lie line IM final I Ions of xut still honor In the Chlh At tem te-m nr his dealt vas II Ills h Irlt had belonged to the tWIIIonnth iuorutri of Seventy nnd was counselor o Bishop lll Dennett llnither V4 llcnx I leaves I posterity ot tn mono ten daughters I elxty grandsons grand-sons twentyseven grjnddaughu rs md twentyeight greatgrnmlchllaren making a grand total of one hundred ird thirtyfive Ills two wives ale oirvive bin tmdy Apri Dth I Pd Ccdar Fort netting hOIo I WR crowdd it 10 rela Ives and friends who hldmet to PRY heir last rexpccla to Father Wllcox Illdera Hacking and Peterson and Bl h lit I Bennttl each bore testimony to the iitpgrityr honesty and faithfulness ot Brother Wilcox saving he has been a friend to the friendless and a father to the fatherless The word rather was therefore aplloprloly 10crlb1 wo upon lh silver pint placed upon his oln lie died as M had lived n faith fill LoUrdRY Saint THOMAS ALFnCD JrrFnIY DId at Lou Wayne county Utah April 10110 of general a WILY Thonlas Alfred Jeffrey born NoV 8 HZ at I llxby nrhamptonhl England Eider Jeffrey Ivan haptld Into the Church ot Jesus Christ of IRUrdy Saints March 26 1818 at II Iortnn In the Itugby branch of the Wnlck luhY Jhln conference by Thma DRY and in ember of the same year was ordained or-dained nn Eldcrnnil appointed to preside pre-side over the Watford branch where he remained for two ear nnd then went to clullsborough where he pre Ided for a short lime In 1853 he was appointed to take churge temporarily of the Leicestershire conference where he met Mlas Mary Ann lllbblt who became lite wife In December of the I I same year In 1837 he was appointed to lake the ojerslght of what was known as Ills WjmondhRm district the Parody being halt ot the Norwich conference In IKS he presided over the Iledford conference and from there wan sent 10 Dundee and presided or tht conrETne In t8GD lie emigrated to America In I860 remaining In New York for one year and then came to Utah and mul 11 is first Inlannt home In m George Washington county coun-ty In 18C2 and passed through the hardships of the early settlers In the Dixie country Ills health was poor most of the time He moved to Pine Valley In 1882 and the next year was ordained a High Priest b Apostle Erastui Snow assisted by 1 Apostles Wllford Woodruff Francis M Lyman and George Teasdale Ills first wife never bore him any children and din In ISO at St George In 1862 he married mar-ried Elizabeth Cowper by whom he had seven children three daughters and tour sons one ot whom I now III the Southern States preaching the I U ape a-pe Brother Jeffrey moved to Loa In 1839 since which time his history lam been closely connected with the history of the county n he Iris beep county treasurer from the organization of the county In I 1832 up to the day of his death unit woo also postmaster In Lon for four years until fortunes political wh1 turned him under for II man who voted another ticket He died as he hid lived full of faith In the I Gopel leaving I behind him the history of an exemplary life and many friends who while they miss his society feel that he had passed the milestone ole o-le Brit lurlc three score and ten fifty year of whh lie hag tailored asa as-a minister of thoCloar pel and was worthy wor-thy tn page to the t beyond to m cr front che the r elvard of his labors In the kingdom of our Tnther WILLIS H HOB1SON |
