| Show a A A 9 wo father of jacob N lybbert buried Bri edin in logan ti word came last week that 0 F B Lybbert i bed had passed to hia his final belard lie died in logan etapa bacs 25 1823 1923 mr lybbert we was born la in denmark november 0 1834 1934 it has been said ot of him that ho be was not 88 89 year years old but 89 years young and that he vms tho the youngest old man in the country he ITO was alway an active energetic oner getic worker and has accomplished accomplish bd many worthwhile wags during hie big lone long life when he wab a lad ind ho he attended and finished the public schools fich ot denmark after which ho he became an apprentice for leron years to learn the blacksmith trade his ilia father was VAS killed while fighting for his country T this hig left the boy aoa hia aa abor alone when the boy was young president anthon II 11 lund found the mother other ai poper hoy boy and bo he soon oon became an airest ardent member of the latter day saints fo to at about eighteen bo be was dratted into the danish army for three years although in the army array he till still continued faithful la in bla his religious duties and was eoon soon put in clerk ot at the branch As an eoon soon to a possible poe elble after his time of norvice nor vice in lu the army uras was over he and ibis Ws mother and art first wife left denmark for utah they were over six weeks crossing creasing the ocean with a balling vessel Wb Wh lleon Ileon hia his way abroe they lost a boutho wale we burled buried in the ocean they walked walk ed across the plains in 1860 1866 he lie waa was given an ox to team am to drive and assumed his full re and sod hardships in con can action with able trip croaa the lain it was on their way to utah that he met ul mias M oleen olson from norway who later tater bis his wife they were married march 10 1860 1806 and from then on wore were active in he the colonizing of utah first they moved to north ogden and nd lived there for a few years from prom there they ther were called to lavan lay an to help ba IV colonize colo there they moved to ashley valley forty yeara years ago M mr r lybbert in all these theae places and all ali ua 1148 life remained a faithful ul social and church worker he waa was wa ward rd clerk fit of the naples wara ward for over thirty years tithing clerk for uan tab tah stake for a number of oe years chool duparl aben dent of naples sun sunday day school just before he was called on bia his mission to holland inthe in the early blaeuer Bla als eUes etkes during the three years ot of that 1 holland Holla fid be to experienced anally things for emam plo TIO he one air eto had to har her parents lead her to tho the wat er because she was blind and she walked home alone seeing hie HIs son boa jacob met that lady fifteen years later as an he be was fining filling his mission la in holland and she still felt deeply be we gratitude ot of her soul for or the ble blei that had come to her that day while on ou this thir mission broth ur or lybbert waa was privileged to baptize about forty nearly all of whom have rein remained glued faith members of ot the church and thedith their now amount to a very largo number he ITO and his big second wife had bad eleven elevon children six sons and five daughter daughters they were a happy family faintly with a deep appreciation and everet pride of each other one babe was burled in laran la van and all the rest lived to maturity and families of their own before any were called from hero within the last ten yeara years three have been called to go giret mrs rachael bascom of ver nel then thou john isaac lybbert from raymond canada and a year ago alro baher L olsen disen of dia idaho the tho following in members timbers ot the ramy tamy fl are still gull living enoch Q C waldemar C and chas J all la in canada mary marr merrill of bluebell utah daniel E lybbert of salt lake city and cikins If and jacob N X of venial eleven years ago next august mr mm lybbert went to canada aad and visited idi sited with hia his sons eons there for about two years since that time he be and his wife hara hare lived in logan most of the time doing work for the dead in the templo temple he contla continued ned id in this work up until four tour months before his death when falling failing health prevented this was indeed a fitting climax to a life of usefulness he died sunday morning at 3 after sleeping fart fold twenty six houra hours funeral service services atre held hold in logan wednesday march 28 his children dan E and mwry merroll merrell anahis wife were the only relatives able to be in mrs merrell left home on saturday h ut ibid not reach li her e r father fathers a side until sunday evening he I cayes 61 grandchildren grand children and 20 great areat grand children mr mother was a native of denmark and his father of germany three of his sons have filled enla Is slone one to norway one to holland and one in the tho united states |
