Show n 11 7 obituary OF ELDER levi EV I 1 g ae eld EId eLevi evans biter riter son ini INT Ichael riter biter and elizabeth born january lat 1805 ii in Ch chester esfir esfer C coja coia 0 pa was of german germau deWen tj on OD bla hia fathers fathera side his granel granil grandfather rather father michael biter riter carne from saxony settled an fn pennsyl manla vania and aua laid laia aown urs uis for lor the cause of american ence once he lie having been taken prison er ei by british troops near phia placed on board a and died of starvation his father michael riter was killed in philadelphia accidentally in 1820 leaving a large family all boys levi riter kiter learned the millwright trade at which lle lie reworked worked in his earlier ears in december 1834 lie he inn ina Tried rebeccac Rebec caW dilworth ue he me by bishop 13 D woolley and othere in fir 1839 in 1843 1845 he went I 1 to nauvoo to visit the pr prophet joseph andu aud and city lotof him an and U then returned to hig big home in ln penn where hei bei en tm aged part of the time in store 3 or keeping until april 1840 1846 and a bout about that time he was baptized 1 by V elder I 1 ferjulian julian moses with hissam his fam 1 I fy he lo moved the same spring to nauvoo to join the main maln body of the church then fleeing to the west irom froin mob pe persecution after fitting up his hia hla tea teams nils there he continued his bis course with a company of the saints faints lal n ts across the state of towa an and d wintered with the church at winter N ri quarters now called florence nebraska here he was ordained ned a ebi Ebl bishop shop and set to preside i oye r a ward containing a large number of the families milles fa of the brethren in the mormon Bal bat battalion who were in a state of uter destitution thes these were the first scenes 0 of ml misery isery a ald aid i d destitution he had ever seen ami and he frequently wept the tho stor bior rows of these people coming CoMin glint inta the church with considerable means he spent a large amount of his substance in feeding the poor families miliea fa alluded to in the spring of 1847 he be moved with the church to these valleys his first farm was situated near where ra the hon HOD W troopers H hoopers residence now st stands anels ancis in the fali fall of 1848 he be went lo 10 california 31 to see seer after afier the goods sent there by himself and others on the ship shig ayn ryn in charge of samuel brannan he braved the dangers of t this h Is journey to california alone the country at that time being a trackless s wilderness late in 1849 he belum ed from california on his ME way home in company with one man was attacked in hi the night by in irk deans and both escaped with thel r lives only he and his companion separated in the faight and abd each thought the other killed hi hel dered about the country there several er aLdays days hiding in the d daytime day AT time and subsisting on rosebuds and aud finally fell feil fellin in with a small squad of emigrants having eight guns they were attacked again by a large number of indians an and d a stood to da their ground and fought them until their ammunition was exhausted randsome and some of their party killed and the remainder made maue their escape afew A few days dayh later a company of saints from california came along with whom he had the most mort mst of his means and he with abu emigrants came with them to salt halt lake in 1852 he went on ow a mission to europe and returned in in the spring of he was wai sent with bt others hers to found a colony colon yin carson valley and d again revisited califor nia nia nta he returned the following winter winten and went baek back again the next spring and returned again with the others who were recalled on account pf af the troubles in 1857 in ift the foregoing tra travels traveis eia ela he crossed the american continent three times before there was a it rall Tail railroad road west of the mississippi river niven his latter years have been spent in his avocation of farmer far mer having i iio llo x cessation in rain min or sunshine storm or calm be helas was always at antwork work knowing no method of gaining q n livelihood but by incessant toil toll of or late years bears he be occupied the position of counselor to bishop S A woolley his method c of f doing business was to have hla hia word as good as hla hia bonato bond to pay as he went and he ho remained to the day of his bis death onia ono of the noblest works of bod dod god an bali honest man mah he paid nature without a murmur and sank mink quietly ta to sleep in the fulL fulli raith faith of the gospel awaiting a glor gior glorious lous ious reb res ri COM coff liv lil the now new isow hork says our divorce bulletin indicates that the millennium dees does not nob t fall due this ibis year the washington Wash lington star of april 13 says it is thought atthe department of justice that the confession of bishop lee lice as is not the entire confession but hut that part of it has geen been retained by U united 13 it e d S states t ft te a attorney howard ecward the tho department officials arm are re ett eft of the b 0 belief bellef that it has not been made public because it implicates kroml blyte to defeat the ends ands of justice were it made public other peri er however believe that howard retains it for the purpose of malting making money out of it at the proper time time being an old newspaper paper mati mali we I 1 hope mr hpward will bealle beable to department of justice that ho he 1 I is 4 in aa of amali a mail malli 1 14 11 1 1 |