Show PRESTON IDAHO PROMINENT CITIZEN DEAD harrison Ayrc r Thomas Thomai Is Culled Called home Indium nail and Protected Home Homes Special Correspondence Corre Preston Oneida Onelda Co March I SHar Har risen Ayers Thomas a well stoll known and highly respected citizen of oC ache Co eo o Utah died of ot Pneumonia at this place Thursday March 3 at nt n a in iii Deceased was wan born bom In Hemper county state of oC Mississippi April 6 5 1537 1137 lie died In lila Ills year Ho lb wag as the tho son SOli of or Joseph Morehead Thomas Thomnas and Mary Ann nn Thomas III Ills parents received the one Gospel In Mississippi 1 and gathered with the tha Saints at Nauvoo In 1813 1513 lie saw Raw the tho Joseph Jo eph Smith and well remembered being pres prell present present ent when the tho Prophet Irol hot delivered his hili last address to 10 the Nauvoo Legion Lesion He lie also remembered herell viewing tho the bodies of ot tho the martyred Prophet and amid Patriarch Ho lie emigrated to Utah with sith his hili uncle Thomas In tine tho year 1851 1551 and settled nettled at Lehl Lehi Utah and anti Fob l ob 12 1838 1858 married lIml d Miss lI Annie Morehead Ho lie was one of the men inca who went to can canyon canon canyon yon on to meet Johnstons army and to prevent It from entering the valley and andin in 11 time the th spring of oC 1861 1851 moved to Smith hell Held where he lie assumed a with others other the Ihl role of ot protector from hostile In tilt ne His 1111 Iii occupation was Willi that of farming anti and anti he took great tie de I light In hI locating and building In Inthe Inthe the th rugged mountains He owned on otis one of tine h first In Cache Cacho county count antI I hints has furnished work to hundreds of men I Ills His greatest pleasure was In subduing tho the crude crudo elements of ot nature and was wasa wasIL a n pioneer In III very deed Ills His last Hints wax isas of oC short hort duration having lasted only four tour days Hd lid was the tho father of 12 children his wife ife and ulna mime of ot whom are living The funeral services were heM held In the tha Smithfield tabernacle Sunday afternoon March 6 1001 Tho speakers wore were President George C Parkinson on and Joseph Gedde of ot the tho Oneida Onelda ke presidency BIshop Henry T I Rogers of oC Preston Ida Ml Newton Woodruff Hamuel Nelson Samuel George Jorge I Farrell Parrell anti and E II n Miles of Smithfield all of oC whom testified to his hi worth and ster ater lin qualities lie He lived ami nm died a n faithful Latter day Saint Saini |