Show CAREER z OF NOTED PIONEER Pratt a n Frontiersman From Irom I I Births Birth Closes LOUR Mission Missionary lon ary ar Life Lire at nt 03 I I r In lii the death of Helaman Pratt the Jaurea stake has hns suffered aim HII irretrievable able lo loss s He died of apoplexy Nov No 26 20 HO at lit his home hom In Colonia Dublan Chihuahua Mexico Few Iw have hac done dono ono mON for tor the th spreading of the time gospel among amory tho Iho natives native 11 or of Mexico than ho he heNone None ont have hao taken a more general In I I I I II I I II u I I I terest In tho time ork both temporal and amid Kin Hin work here has been of oC oCa ofa a 0 varied nature from tho time chamber of or President Dma Diaz to tho time corn stock hut of the time peon from the council room of ot the tIme tako atako presidency to the great canal canul site His Ills faith and Integrity ty t were sere undaunted He was alway alwa looking almond ahead planning counseling lIng encouraging and amid fighting If Ir siry to lo maintain the time right light and mind secure Jus JUI Justice tire tice He Ho was the soul of oC honor a pillar of or strength In tim the tIme stake being noted for his visa wiM counsel In all nil af mU affairs fairs His disposition was cheery cheer and amid practIcal ready to make mako maJ the best of all nil tImings things that came He Ire was ma honored by b tIme the natives with whom hom he lie had hall great Influence TIme The Jefe said of 01 him Senor Pratt was a good man mann and a It good neighbor His integrity and faith were undaunted Ho iRo was the tIme son semi or of Parley P Pratt and the tho oldest child of his mother mothel Mary MaryWood Wood Pratt He was born at Mt ort Pl May Mo 31 1846 during the time Jour Journey journe ney ne across the tIme plains He lIe entered the valley e In September of oC 1847 a pioneer then thou a as always For 10 years ears he lie took part as nut a n child In the time Interesting events event of or those first years then sud suddenly suddenly suddenly denly the cares erel of oC a man moan were welo thrust upon him hIm by b the tho death of o his father 1 ther whom he lIe loved and revered For 10 years more he lie bravely assisted the time family In III their struggles The Tho they experienced know leno best who have l he bean en n left fatherless s in a n new mica country At 21 n he lie with several of or Salt Lakes Lales promising young men man was WIS called to go O south and open up a m country called I The Time Muddy Judd In southern Arizona Hero he met Victoria who shared with him his lila after life lIe mis missionary I experiences and all After moving lug InS around from seemingly one desir desirable able place to another they the found in each some somo great hindrance for fr 01 coloni colonl colonization of It this President Pre Young released them themAs themAs As they drove out over the tIme hill hili they I saw their homes and anui schoolhouse e some i of the time material immaterial for tor which had hod been n hauled a hundred miles In him kin kimu kindled dIed by b time the Indians Even Een the little littleboy littleboy boy bo born to them on tho the Muddy sick sickened sickened sickened ened on the time way 0 home and died the tho day after reaching there thereIn In 1872 he lie again went south ROuth to the Sevier evler presiding over a little settlement there While here his other companion Dora Dorn joined tho time family fatally He hod h d been In Savior Soler but three years when a call for or a n a mission to Mexico came The rho now ncr ne home was sas broken up also alO tho tIme family comfortably located In iii Salt Galt Lake So he Ito started south again little thinking that tho the thorest thorest rest of his Imis lIfe lIro would be bo spent In the unknown land towards which he I I I I I I I I I traveled From the tho the country and amid people amid ltd their great needs nee s ap appealed I pealed paled to him strongly So 80 8 much so that after aCter the company of oC young mis missionaries missionaries returned home homo discouraged ea with the seeming Beaming Impossibilities of or the time country countr h with others felt that an nn opening could bo he gained So tie they were called to return The true missionary spirit entered his soul and remained there until his lila end He could Bee aeo their tem tern temporal needs need n their great grent depravity and time the reined for It II Being released from this mission mIRlon he lie remained nt at homo home hive Ile years ears laboring on tho lImo Salt Sait Lake po police police police lice force as ag a most efficient He then returned to over oer the time mission The TIme native nativo fare fore was so un mm unwholesome wholesome and the time hardships endured en fo so great that his lila health was ruined md nd for 10 years tarl he ho was as a physical ph wreck While laboring labeling in Mexico City exile colonists from Utah en on entered 1 northern Chihuahua seeking n a ahome home He lie greatly assisted In ex cx explaining explaining away awa tho the prejudice felt against Immigrants entering from the United States S ta tes He gained the time lasting friendship fl and good will of the Grand Old Man oJan of ot Mexico Diaz When hen the time president recently visited Chihuahua ho asked ed the time delegates from the colo colonies cob miles nies about and nail sent his love to Fenor Pratt PIatt Lands had to be purchased some sometimes sometimes sometimes times with great trouble In finding the proper propel titles and amid In this work voik lie he never neel rested from first to lost last I t His HIM Ill family came to the tIme colonies In and ho lie came caine up tip to locate them there al always always ways expecting to continuo continue his mis ails missionary labors from lom which ho lie waa wa 1 never adver n ver released ed Under the direction of Erastus Elastus Snow lie he brought tIme the na nn saints from around Mexico City Cit Citto to the time colonies He assisted them to get let located and make mako themselves as comfortable as possible but they the could not stand plo mat nO l life and one morning when alien Elder Ider Pratt called at their little set settlement on the rivers bunk bank lie he found them lh nil mill gone Ione They he had hind shouldered their belongings and amid In imm n tho thin darkness of night stolen av away ay intending Int to their way a back bach to Mexico When hell the tIme Juarez stake was organ organized organized with A W IV Ivins Iv n as ns president Helaman Pratt was chosen cho cn eus as a coun COUII counselor elor and from then until tho the recent reorganization Icor they timey tho labored untiringly for the tho growth and development of tIme the colonies and surrounding people antI and country Ills home was always open and peo pen people people from flOm all mull over oel the tue stake Mako or stran strangers germ gers passing through visitors visitor from mum thio north or the time native traveler were I sure lure of or a welcome tImers there Ills His desIre was for years eus e to tl see eo the time great Ireat canal at nt finished He lIe worked for it with his energy until he lie saw time the water rater 1101 from tho time river across tho valley aile Into time the natural and on to tho time prairie below Fifteen l years ears ago his ImIs health IH alth was restored In a IL miraculous way From Froni then until he received a 1 severe fall faIl a It year ear ago he Ito was aas strong and amid well i The month prior to his hIt death was as one I of the most pleasant h lie had over ever known i Ills His son lIon Key Hey TIC I II who hns hus been for i three years ars presiding over the time mis missionary work worle In iii time lito Interior cama camo homo to regain strength after typhoid fever fevel and they greatly enjoyed being together The Tho Thanksgiving week WECk was full of or orJo Joy Jo A wedding feast east vas given for 01 his hili daughter at which ho was the time genial host Thanksgiving day was WUI greatly on ln enjoyed joyed meeting with all an his family during the time day da except the tho little branch branchIn In iii Mexico dancing with his grandchildren dren and laughing heartily at passing I Jokes joke In the evening plans were made ma e for a mu busy morrow but tIme the i morning sun found his spirit passing to Itt Its it Maker Four Jour sons emma lS J were on the time other oilier side to hIm and six Nix suns sons and six daughters with 14 11 grandsons and three granddaughters arc left len to cherish his hla memory on earth |