| Show DEATH OF SOPHIA KING XING After Spending Her lIel Lire In III Useful Work urk Comes Coates In III California Call A telegram was WI received yesterday from troon Alameda t Cut CIt announcing the thein death In III that city elty of Mrs Sophia I 1 IKins Kins n firs AIr Ir died at md the tho home ti ot of other f her daughter Mrs Ir Gulon Guton who will ac accompany accompany company the th remains r to this city for Cor burial The funeral services will IMS he beheld held at tho the chapel or of Joseph Josoph E Toy Tay Taylor Tn lor bur at ut a time to 10 bo ho announced later Mrs King huts hilI a IL host ot of friends in n 11 Salt Snit Lake City and other olMI parts paris of Utah especially among tho older ohler Inhabitants with whom nho was associated In iu the early days da s Her 1101 life lito was a n particularly Interesting one She Will was born In Springfield Mass laKs Jan 8 S When 11 U years oars old ohl she ho went through curiosity to hear tho Mormon elders preach They quoted from train the Bible niblo and proved their doctrines but she ah behoved tiny thor had hud quoted falsely and sat up all alt night rending tho the Scriptures to loam learn whether whether er they lied had done dono so 10 or not Finding tho the passages genuine sire shu went again to hear henr the elders ciders and left loft the tho meeting converted to tho the gospel pel At this time pore Mrs King was waH tho the youngest member of or the tho Baptist con congregation to which pho rho belonged and was WIlI looked upon with much favor favol by her minister and tho the older members When It Vas suit learned earned that she ho he had been heen converted to Mormonism n a most zeal zealous zealous ous oua effort was Ill outdo made to turn her away but that sho shin stood linn drat in her het now new faith her planned to tl keep her In III her home ham Sho e however wont went to 10 Brooklyn yn arid and worked d In a Il factory until she sho he hail had obtained means to o emigrate Titan Then HIO Rho took look passage on or tho he sh ship Brooklyn rooklyn and fUl folic d sailed around tho tile Horn to California an an There ii sho ho mot mo Capt J Edn and King whom she sho Inter rote r married Mrs King came acne to Utah with her children in aver n 1867 1851 and took part lurt In tho tire move Hot husband followed follow dd thc thu the e next hum year car hut but died dl soon after aCt r Left a II widow sho shin endured all the tho hardships of or tho tiro early days Her Ifer Inter later years have been spent mostly In California |
