| Show NEWTON N P I Funeral Services Close Chose Clo o or n a Brilliant Career Special Correspondence Newton Cache Cacho Co March 19 Tho mineral funeral services over oer the remains of ot time tho ho late hate Wm Win F Rugby of or the tho Fremont remont I Stake whose who o death watt nn sin d In tIme the News Nells lout last week took tok place In Newton trice meeting ting house on OIl Sat Bat March Match The Tho services s verO attended attended by n a largo large number of ot friends and relatives front various parts ports of ot Utah and Idaho Appropriate remarks were made mado by President Pres Thomas E K Hicks of the Fremont Stake Idaho to o whom Brother has hll acted OB ns first counsellor since the thO colonization of southern Idaho by h time the Mormon peo peoples pIe ples Brother Robert nobert L of Brigham City Bishop John JoIns Jardine of pt President Samuel Ue Pit Amos m Clarke and Wm II 11 of Newton All AH of ot the speakers bore bora testimony to tIme the excellent charac character ter borne by the tho deceased and to t hla his Indefatigable labors In the Church ard ardno no as a it pioneer Ho Ito Syria IUS a wise counselor a 11 true friend u it loving husband and father tat her William of ot Smithfield sang Rang Ranga sanga lIan a 11 beautiful solo olo followed tho the remains to the cemetery ro they were vere laid to rest among the remains of tho the lar large c number or of Ma mi family who have preceded him to tho the theother other side Brother Brather leaves a II largo large lar e family who keenly feel time the ab nb settee sonco of their loving father and hUll hue band The family has haa the tho heartfelt sympathy of t the th of Newton where Brother ww We Bishop for ft a number of ot years earll mind In that capacity gullied gained their love and esteem William Frederick HIgby Sr was born bornat at nt worth Yorkshire England on January 1033 In July he lie became Identified with the Church of Jesus Christ of Saints In Tim 1852 1812 he married M H Mary Iary Clarke and nn In April 1893 Brother rUgby and wife bid goodby to their native land and with a company of Saints took passage gO In tho Camillas and antI started on era th theIr lr Journey journe to Zion Many Inny were the trials trl ls and hardships they had to en duro dure before they reached their destina destination tion Brother was van one ot of otten otten often ten volunteers who Were vere sent to Salt Halt Lake City ahead of the company with letters to President Young requesting aid for tor the tho emigrants whose teams were exhausted as was also nice their supplies These volunteers ar arrived tired rived at ot President Youngs on I October 1833 18 3 having haYing walked miles In n five days He fl remained In Salt Lake City the following eighteen months In Iii tho the spring of Jf 1655 1835 lit hI re fe removed reo moved to where he ho resided 1 for several severa I years Mrs In the spring of ot 1551 11 IS I he ho went to Cacho Valley and there thero made hili permanent home halne anti consequently was one of the pioneer plon er farmers of ot that t county In Nov 1566 President was wal set ret apart ap at trio ono nf cit the presidents of or tho the Quorum of Seventy Wan as called an nil Bishop of Clarkston In 1567 1167 remained In only three ens when In Nov 1870 1810 ho Pie was chosen n as of Newton which position he occupied c until un III the tha m of ot 1884 1811 when Mn he was railed nn nIl first coun oun counselor to President Thomas E Iv of ot them the Stake Idaho Idah now no Fro Frou u mont Stake Blake which position he ho occupied d dIt at It tIme the time of ot his death which occurred at est 10 on Wednesday MIlich 1311 1901 after olur a tout hang Illness duming which ho he suffered Buffered greatly Elder filled fill u IL mission to England a 11 tow few years ago Also Abo served ono one term as a a 11 member of tho Idaho Legislature Ho no Wits was Indeed one of time the foremost among amonS tho Mormon peo Ileo people meo pie lIt awl was particularly in up UI tIme the Idaho Colonies o II President wan wao a tt linn firma and proe believer In n all III tIme the doctrines of or the as n taught by the by his isle cheerful anti and ij genial dis disposition position ho gained gill nell friends oil all classes of people and his memory will willbo willbe willbe be bo fondly fondi cherished by nil all who knew him |
