| Show OLD SALT LAKERS 0 4 O 1 t f 1 l J 1 i 1 y y t Y r Pr X 1 t tl I IY l Y t tr r r I i T Tr r X TX v r A X A I a J i t tj 1 V j 1 f of V A J JV V i fi V V j k 1 1 A 5 Y s V v A AX 1 X t 1 r rI f r rV V I 1 Y Y y J y y V t t y u KI I I JOHN VAN COTTo COTT I IJohn IJohn John Van an COlt Cott one of at the who came to Utah Uth In September 1911 1547 was 88 born lorn In Canaan Columbia county BOunty Nw dew Sept lilt 1811 lie He em embraced m braced the GoI Gospel eI In 1146 under tM the nd administration ot of Parley J 1 Pratt In 1 52 be left Utah un on for tor and spent four Cour valuable year are In n Scandinavia at t the end of which time he returned home homp H lie hero here only three years earll ho however eer when hll wits wal again called to All a mission loo mode made friends wherever he went and amI was I loved loed by all 11 Ills noble wo work k will be for Cor man many years to come b by all who knew him himAt himAt At the time of oC ode 1118 he was w one of oC the Firs Seven of the Seventies he hind lIen been la III feeble health for some time prior to his hll death which occurred on February r IB 18 1883 at his hll home a short die south lOuth of this ell city The funeral service were held two days later In the hall hail the lead leading III of oC the Church being present The Deseret Dellert Newl ewe said Id of him at the site time of oC his hll death It would I he to find A more exemplary or conscientious man then than Brother Drother Van Cotto Cott lie He was WAil n good taunt man III the broad sense not negatively so 10 but lUll as a producer or of the good oad fruits of a life lie He was one of oC tho those who whose character and motives appeared so 10 far beyond reproach that We doubt It IC they have hae ever eEr been lIeen the subject ten even or of suspicion |
