| Show FRANKLIN IDAHO PASSING OF A PIONEER It n Xa XII li h lo I lIall nt 81 Franklin l Ida Isaac Bart Bartlett lett who ho died at ot his hi home in tn Franklin Aug 3 was born In III Kid Kidwelly welly South Wales Juno June H 1824 Ho wan tho son of or David Dald DavidI I Davies and lalY but was adopted by b his maternal grand fond grandparents parents was wall taught by b his grandfather the blacksmith trade nt III which ho h was I an expert At the tho ago age of at SI 1 he received tho gospel go ns preached by th Iatt rdo Saint elders elder and being b blessed with the gilt gift of or cons ong ho waR os osof of ot much assistance to the ciders In their meetings Ho cantO camo to America with Copt Capt Dun Dan Jones Jonell and crossed cro Pd th plains In A Smiths company In Salt Lake City In hi the fall of or He Ho mAd his homo In the Fifteenth t ward and followed his of or He joined the first tab tob tabernacle choir was mado assistant to tl Its 1111 first 1 leader John Johl Parry Parr Ho JIo married H Elvira Pool and In tho fol tol following lowing March they ther left Snit Salt Lake to go goto goto to California to meet his moth mother er and family who came camo there thero on the ship There Thero ho worked for In the mines nt ot Sonora hut but when floods destroyed tJ their claim they the moved mOed to tl Union City where he resumed worle nt at Ills his trade and built n U homo and shop In ho returned to Utah with family fa I h Tho next net year cor ho began work In tho Church blacksmith shop In the Seventh ward warel In lS 7 ho he was Willi with the company in Dig Big Cotton Colton L wood when the news came of or tho In Invasion of or Johnstons army arm Ho HG com composed compos posed pos d tho song DuDa which ho aft afterwards nanc anI in tho tabernacle Ho HI marched in MaJ company to Echo canyon on then removed with his family to Provo and there thoro until tho recall of ot tho people to Salt I ako City In he with his hla wife went to St Louis taking the 13 children survivors of ot tho Mountain Meadow massacre They Thc wore relieved of or them nt Fort and wont went on to St SI Louis Louill ho built n tt homo adopted four little children or whom only on one lived Ho lIo was still In St Louis when the tho Civil war broko out and was three times Im Imprisoned Imprisoned for his denunciations of oC the secessionists but was released upon the tho Intercession of oC tho British consul upon signing lIgnin tho oath of neutrality In 1861 the family returned to Salt Lake but Immediately moved to Franklin Ida he has hn ever eer since resided He was appointed choir leader and Sun Sunday day school superintendent which positions pOl I ho h held for Cor many years ears doing doln much to Instill n a love loe of mu lIlu lc and poetry In tho young traveling from Cache valloy vall to valley teach teaching teachIng ing music and holding jubilees Ho composed many songs and ami poems In 1869 ho he married Martha Howland who has borne him 12 children eIght of or whom survive him Ho was appointed to W L Webster stake slake of ot Sunday Sunda schools which position ho he II d until falling health required his hili release when whon he hewa wai wa ordained a IL Patriarch Mr 11 Nash was of or a 0 genial kindly dis disposition position loving and charitable for his kindness to children and desire jo labor for Cor their good He lIe was humble and unassuming with unswerving In Integrity to tho truths of ot tho gospel and ami loved loed by all who ho know knew him His 1111 funeral was largely attended from nil all over Oel the tho by y the patriarchy high priests prIest and Sunday school and children Addresses cro made by President Charlos II n Hart Stake Slake Presidents W r C and George C Par Parkinson kinson and many of or his Franklin friends Tho songs of oC his own on compo composition composition were sune by the choir |
