| Show t p LOA CLOSE OF BRILLIANT CAREER Patriarch Elias Ellas 11 II Blackburn la s Lifes Labora nt at HI SI 1 Special Correspondence Loa u no Co April 1111 10 Pati larch Ellas Hicks Blackburn one of ut Gods noblemen passed front from earth April C G Though In feeble health for some semite sometime sometime time his death was vas W lS sudden and unexpected unexpected unexpected The subject of ot this sketch whose pie pic picture ture tUN anies it was the son of o Thomas Blackburn and Elizabeth Boone Blackburn and was born Sept Sopt 17 1827 at III Now Paris Bedford county Pa being tho the youngest of nine nIno chil children dren droll Ills father died when ho lie was 1 year ear old mild and ancl five years later latr he moved with his widowed mother to A t tS S IrIs KLIAS II n m Ohio Glib Later I lr the time funnIly family moved moored to 1111 where In III the tho year 1111 ho lie hearth and believed the timid and tas Us hun bap baptised huntI tI tl In iii 1845 From 1845 to 10 1846 He lie worked on Oil the tho Nauvoo temple and 1101 as engaged making to tomoo mote moo In iii December 1817 he was vu a 1 by hy Joseph Young nu 11 It who Whit uLu as by hy the iiO billet phot Smith mid from that duy until U 0 t Il tho ho tiny day Ila of ot his hits death hu lie was Willi a I of Ho Tie shared In lii all nil the thu early trials of th II saints mints md l roHl ed tho the plains In 1849 March 2 ISM ho hiti 11 1 VI ordained a it bishop by President Young and was ns set net apart lu tOJ us aS tIme thu firM of lit Provo Ho HI 1 through nil alt the tho hardships In III to tn tho ho of the first of or and wu 1111 not mInt tIlt the th leant hut sUt forer ferer r during the till stormy of if this th troubles roubles from trout 1851 18 1 to Is Ho Howan I to wan tas at IH tho the laying la of lit limo thu cot of ut th ii Silt uiKo laki temple April 6 Ii In ISM 1854 hu lut wont IH mis H ram flu as nl 01 C m and it nil tIme emigrants ts the tho thi III hi From 1859 tu to 1862 ho hu filled a mission lo I It limit In Ut 2 hu tie moved to Miners r lIk 1110 heaver county at tit this he hI fur tor t r 11 years acted as IS of nf Sunday schools In Iii May lilLY 1879 ha he hi moved from rota to tn Fremont 1 valley Wayn II II county at itt that haiL time known a jut JUI valley allo PI Il ute utu county hull took up III at lit atIlia bite Ilia place later latel named l a Ho Will was HH set t to tn lr hlo n Alt tho bishop bl of ot Lea Leaward ward warel thou then nil all tin time territory from Fremont to II Thurber by Ai J Snow Rno In III February UW IStO Ho lie Howan wits wan ordained a II patriarch Slay Mity MI 21 23 1859 by II M t 1 Lynian anti and loin that hint Iny until tilt the tinie of hit hi death hu bitt eli all hiM line and a iii I lit suil amid mm to tn tile tiui th sIck nick mummy many of nt whom from front Canada In III that tho north to Mexico In III tho the south to his liU cot IURO tUI In III I Lout 1011 An AS a II Pioneer und and mission itry ry ho lic ha bait been excelled by h few tw his hili whole life lite has han l 1051 e n ono of ot o to 10 God nail and loyalty loyally lo to hubs hla HIM Journal an account of nearly cases n of o fevers r tumon and cancers that God hn ha hall healed through hU hll Ho lie lm lies 0 n 13 lain af nl blo Honesty humility loyalty to tho the Lord Lend and timId HU WI j Is tho the record meorl ho ht ban hM made In life and andin h lie in leaves behind for tho tIm emulation or mit II hubs hIli kindred and amid many III friends a 1 pious ilous career calter Time The funeral wan held hitik h ld in the tho Loa Lott April 10 Tho rho principal wore were 1 ld Mocks Meeks S Joseph Ecke rill oy John It Stewart William II if Worrell Morrell William R n t and mommy many others A wife 23 children n mi 73 78 and n it multitude of ot friends are II left to cherish the tho memory of ot a U I noble life Ute and character |
