| Show oI HI H H IH i r fl L i iI t I 1 1 F 3 r i Kt tk ki t 1 t 1 p t i 3 w 4 ft 1 r V t 1 tt d 1 I II I II I II I I t of HH HI J H I H JIH I HH H l JOEL PARRISH Another Pioneer Answers the Roll Call In ma the tha Great Grut Encampment Tho The roll call of ot the tho Pioneers of ot Utah In the great encampment cn beyond the tho sunset Is rapidly becoming complete It will not be bo long now before all present and accounted for Cor can be recorded In to Inthe Inthe the morning report of ot their commander Saturday another another of or them joined the filling ranks of his brothers when the remains of or Joel Jool Parrish wore ware d at nt Centerville He lIe had died dl il tho time previous pr lolli Monday In his bill year oar having lived Invert In Utah since September life like that flint of ot so eo many others of ot the tho first generation of Paints won was dedicated to hardship and to 10 the time overcoming of ot obstacles such as I surround the beginning of lr every new now movement In the worlds progress Ills first nr t occupation In Utah was ns as M a n trap trAI of oC coyotes and amid ho hl operated o his traps fer rail where tho time Main street sheet pavement of Salt Snit Lake now runs run rune As a n pioneer plon or of Davis county settlements he will bo he chiefly remembered for Cor he was one of ot the first men to 10 move northward from Silt Lake and ever over since begun began Its existence has taken a n 1 prom pram prominent part In Its lt It affairs Ire For or 16 years year and has ho he h was a n county count commissioner meld held ninny many IMIl other political positions At Atthe Atthe the time of his death he was a 1 Patri Patriarch Patriarch arch In the Church with which hu he h af ref affiliated I Punted as all a R boy boyHe He lie was WR born In ht Leeds county Can Canada Canada ada Nov C G 1817 At tit 10 years of oC age ag he h chore with his hili father Cather to emulate affiliate with the Church then claiming to 10 bear beRr beara beRra a message of ot the tho second coming of Christ and to b be preparing the tho world for or that event Joseph Smith WAS Its lender leader and to acknowledge Its 1111 name way wail to 10 hostility slander and de des desIn defamation In unction With his father Cather ho he moved to Illinois In time to participate In the driving of the tho followers of Joseph Smith from rota that section of tho country At Nauvoo while time the new religious religions faith was R rest resting restIng resting ing there from Cram Its persecutions ho la ha bored on tho the Nauvoo Temple with his hll father Ho He met the tho Prophet Joseph Jo Smith there thero and learned to tu know kno hint him well wellIn wellIn wellIn In Hie he Joined the time westward movement move movement ment which was then being forced Corcell by bythe bythe bythe the pressure of or persecution and bitter opposition to lo the tho life lite of ot the new re to religion ligion Ono winter ha hI stopped al nt Council and In 1847 1811 took up liP the westward we trail In the company headed Malted by P I 1 0 O Sessions It arrived In tho the Great Gront Salt Snit lake hake a volley valley Sept Sopt 22 2 nearly two months month after tho the first largo larga body hind had worked Its Is way through the tho Wa Wasatch Wasatch satch catch mountains In the tho early years he was active In Inthe Inthe Inthe the wild lId pioneer life He JIe formed ono one of the thc detachment that wont u ont out to meet Johnsons army when It was sent here through the wild rumors about n out settlers spread by the fathers of ot the present generation of oC When the tho handcart company was stranded anti and out of ot food beyond the mountains he was waB gent crt with a 1 taw few Co 1 others ethers In charge of oC the relief expedition tion lIn laden with food and horse driven vehicles for Cor tho the wick sick and weary wean At the funeral of the venerable pio plo pioneer pioneer neer hop presided and the hell hall was thronged with his friends of ot the Ih early days daya when Utah Ulah was In the making |
