| Show MOAB OOm 01 oi A aItI 1 ot John ml Sr HIs PIoneer Ufo Life mil Labors Special lal Correspondence Moab Grand Co Jon Jan the citizens ot of this quiet town turned out en masse to attend the funeral per vices ices over iane the remains ot of Gerge George W Johnson Sr who departed this le life at 11 nm Jon Jan 22 1500 after nn an I ill illness ness 1 of tour four or five e days daBi the cause caule ot of nel death WIS was an attack of Brights ll disease Deceased easl was born In the town of l Co Now New York Fob eh 19 and was baptized Into the tho 1 1 Church ot of Jesul Jesus Christ pt pf Saints on the th day of Apri April 1536 l bs Elder Samuel Bent and WM confirmed by the tho Joseph Smith wih with whom he acquainted lie He in n the mobbing and Ins ings the tho pioneer work of the Church nOl from that dB day until the pies pres ent lie vasa n member ember ot of Zions camp campIn In 1519 le he helped to the thc called P Perkins settlement afterwards called And later named Mace Macedonia donIa at which tilaco he was U to Maria J 1 Johnston on April 14 14 mI 1911 While at this place Iaco he In the erection ot of the Nauvoo Temple and WO was at the tho dedication lero Here he was M ordained un an Elder under the tho hands or of Brigham Young und and one OM year ear Inter nt at wa was ordained 1 a seventy anti set apart as 1 a member Qt f the Twenty Iet quorum under the hands of Eller Elder Mos Moses In the summer or of lS 1548 h he together wih with his D DT DT T remained at Nauvoo after the tho exodus of the Church exhibiting the until It was burned Temple to strangers on the night of Nov ov 1 19 ms 1849 le He westward In stopped at Kanes ille Iowa Ion where ho bo began the tho study and I practice of medicine und and the tho great e epidemic or of cholera holer tok took un an active lart In Is its suppression On the tho day of Juno June 1511 he ba started west westward ward for tor the altY or of th the Great Salt Lake suffering many prIvations anti losses Ike on the way woy When about miles north ot of the crossing n a child vaS 88 br born to them on th thio day Of t Jul July 1951 1851 On the lt of October la 1551 ho he tn in Salt Lake City eUy where h he lil married Eveline 1 Burdick ull ck 10 lie went to creek treek now Utah county he buit built the and noted ns as postmaster until the breaking out of the Walker war whoa whon he to tn and bui built one Il of th the lut first II III that ilace ne He ner r remained here until the tal fall of 1 1513 3 when ho he was Clell called to go and Ii in up Irn Iron county and to learn the language there In I I ton tion wih with his nephew Nephi Johnson ho cOln Ue anti and published n a dictionary ot of the language In pamphlet form torm Ind and lid n a good work among the Inala indians antI explored the then unknown moun mountains or of southern Utah le lie was 01 then caled called back and settled nt at Payson where he remained one Year this WIS was the noted then grasshopper year ear le lie lih returned to Irn Iron county for tor the winter In the sprIng ot of 1550 he returned to Summit creek cek In 1861 was appointed counselor tv to Bishop Jales James S anti acted ns an clerk or of the ward and nt an postmaster which he held un tin unI I til the of 1959 1869 when ho was called I to build a Settlement at sprIng springs In Sanpete where he laId out outI I th the town ton of Fountain Green At that place he was set aPart as aB and appointed postmaster Here Herl ho he roo re until 1503 when he removed remond to SprIng Lake tila In 1566 ho he was calell called to g go on a mIssIon to help to up the south Bouth but on account of sIckness In Inthe inthe the tam family I he spent the tho winter In Foun tam Green In the spring or of 1567 ho he went to Mona MOM Juab count county where he buit built a home and during the tho summer Hummer he WI was postmaster which h ol chico co coho ho he h hold ld until January 1883 The winter of he spent pent In St fH George and afterwards helped to establish the town of Johnson In Kane county where the family md calculations to colon Inc IncOn On returnIng to Mona lit lie established n 0 trunk factory nt at that place In 1883 1583 hI he moved to Huntington Emery mery county where hoe he built n a home set out an or orchard chard chud and nursery On the Uth day of at November ISIS lie ho was married to Clarissa Some Somo time In that year hI he wrote and published a 0 series of poems called Jottings by the tho Way 11 In ISH 1594 he removed to Moab Grand count county ho he resided until his do da mIse |
