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Show DIED. SMITH -- At her residence in the fifth ward, Logan, Dec. 3, 1880, of dropsy, Margaret Gurney, wife of Bishop Thomas X. Smith. <br><br> Deceased was born in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, Sept, 29, 1830?; was first baptized Sept. [September] 30, 1848 by Elder John Mead, and emigrated to Utah in 1853. She was the mother of eleven children, nine of whom are still living. She passed through a great many trials and hardships incident to the early settlement of these valleys all of which she bore with patience and fortitude. She was a kind mother, and tried to instill the principles of truth into the minds of her children. A few minutes before she died she called her family around her and bore to them a faithful testimony of the truth of the gospel, and exhorted them to remain faithful. Although her husband was on a mission in England, she expressed her desire that he should not be sent for on her account, and when asked if he should be sent for, said she would not be satisfied? for him to come before he had filled his mission. |