Deseret Evening News | 1901-04-15 | Page 8 | Pinto

PINTO AMOS O 3 IS Was a Church Worker of lays Special Correspondence Pinto Washington Co April 12 Amos Q G Thornton died here on April t 5 He II w ivas i born December M SW in Pickering township near Toronto City Canada tanada HI Ills parents Oliver anti and Mary Marv Thornton embraced the Gospel when he was quite young and removed to Hirt land Ohio In order to join the main body of the Saints Brother Thornton grew to manhood during the and persecutions to o which the Saints were subjected anti and removed with his hi parents to Utah In In 1854 In response to a it call from the authorities he with others went to southern Utah to establish the South I ern em Indian mission arid In lit company I with Jacob Ira Iru Hatch said and others othera made several verai trips to the IndIans He lie waS wad a Of that ex cx expedition to till the in hit isco who lin A Smith Ji Jr lout bet his lift life at tit tho ho hands ot of vindictive He lie settled nt at Pluto Pinto in 1955 The rIte stumP same year he Mary of cedar edat tit who now with a fam family ily of children and n ut mourn the loss of n it noble and husband und and father Thornton led lad a busy and use tise useful ful Lul life and was known by all itil his IiI asa elates nn na it true anti and honorable man n a consistent and faithful Saint faint Ho lie was wac tt fl great comforter to the tho sick anti and those In trouble The rite funeral held at this place on the lust was attended by all his taut fam family ily except one daughter All the tho people of Pinto front from surrounding settlements who had hiatt known anti and loved the hue deceased were In attendance Con Consolatory Consolatory remarks were vre made by Us it num her nf of who iho all bore testimony to his Itis sterling North sincere faith and unswerving devotion to the cause o of truth