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Show OIUTCAItY. : One of Dixie's Earliest Settlers Gone to a ! Well Earned Rest. His Posterity 159. Eastox Kelsey Died at St. George ; May 10. 1SSW. Deceased was born at I New Lisbon, Oswego County, Xew ' York. March 9. 1813; was baptised into I the .Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-tiav-Saints. by Elder Joel H. Johnson, in the Willoughhy river, Kirtland, 1 Ohio, on December 11, 1830, the bap-i bap-i tism being confirmed by Elder Sidney ! Ridden, from that time he remained 1 wi.h the Saints during the trials and persecution.; in Missouri and Nauvoo, ! and endured the hardships encountered ! in the long' journey across the plains J by the early settlers of Utah. He arrived ar-rived in Salt Lake City October 7, 1851, and in 1S(1 was called Upon a mission to settle Dixie, arriving' at the place where St. George now stands on the 8th day of December of that year. Deceased Deceas-ed was a quiet, unassuming man and died as he had lived, a faithful Latter-day Latter-day Saint. He Was acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith during his lifetime. Besides two faithful wives, It) children, chil-dren, 101 grandchildren, 41 greatgrandchildren, great-grandchildren, and 1 great-greatgrandchild survives him. A number of these have settled in and helped to develop de-velop colonies in Arizona, Mexico, Nevada, Ne-vada, and various portions of Utah. Funeral services were held in the Tabernacle at 3 p. m. Thursday, at which appropriate remarks were made by President Daniel D. McArthur, President David H. Cannon, Elders James G. Bleak, Charles Smith, Rufus C. Allen, William Atkin, and Bishop Andrus. |
