Show circumstances att anding the decease ot MI eiden EIdee den der samuel leaver R ported by elder thomas bullock Bollo eke efe 0 eider elder leavers body was found by mr daniel hill hi eli ill soon after sunrise friday dec 3 1 la 16 nin air A lr jonathan browns garden and rid tid within I 1 hail in ia calili caimi calmi weather of bome some si six to ten cami I 1 lies it appears that mr john heard three shouts between 6 65 and 7 7 pm p m of the evening previous but supposed they proceeded proc from boys feeding stock at a elder leaver rode in the stage from camp floyd to little cottonwood where the driver apparently entirely bewildered took to ok the mules from the carriage t and started south saying 0 he was going to G S L city It appears that elder eider leaver then itar started ted 0 on it foot for shelter at br bullock bullocks an old acquaintance residing e a short distance from the roaland roa road dand and becoming benumbed b and usable unable to raise aid with hla his his hia shouts the scattered fam families ilici being cl closely biely I 1 I 1 housed from the terrible inclemency incle incie merici of tho tl e weather froze to death elder samuel leaver was born in banbury Oxford shire england april 13 1809 emigrated to the united states in 1834 was bap tined into the church of jesus christ of latter day saints april 30 1842 moved to nauvoo in november er 1845 was ordained a member of the h Quo olm nim of seventies dec 28 1845 and moved to G S L city in september 1852 in his bis quorum and among his acquaintances he be sustained a goodly reputation and bore the character of a kind husband and father A conference was held in st louis on the ad of october at which 24 branches were represented comprising lioi 1161 members including 8 high priests 3 seventies ISO elders 76 priests 37 7 teachers and 28 deacons Daa cons cohs twenty one pel pet sons had been baptized 15 received by letter ietter 38 removed to other localities 27 excommunicated and 32 had bad died the branches were generally represented to be in a flourishing and heal healthy condition ahat ahat was wag known know nas as the cincinnati conference is included in the above numeration I 1 |