| Show our country con Gon temporaries contemporaries P I 1 bogde n Y march 1 I 1 M mr r Hancock laJ fag titio sonk son aon two and ahall years old olo has haai been fod for somo pomo time with a c cancer an in ofie ofte of his eyes which ig isi bied bled medical le a I 1 skill has hag failed to arrest the progress pro gress gresa of the terri IQ affliction and now V the little fellow will badjo ha vo to undergo an operation T for or the extraction of the eye he y is to be taken to salt bait lake where an optician will remove the cancer ous organ a as the only alternative the people of ogden were much 41 shocked today to day by the news thal that mr A J shupe an old resident of A this city had bad suddenly departed this iffe life he had been sunn suffering ering ring for W several days with a severe pain in the head and on rising a little affery 6 this morning complained of the pain he went to make a liro fire in n the stove when his wife heard a fall and a groan y M he was found prostrate on anthe the floor and after being lifted lift e d in I 1 n his lla hia y bed groaned faintly and expired mr shupe had twice previously been attacked with apoplexy his family and friends are plunged into great leat reat grief deceased was waa born in rayson county virginia november ath 1815 he was waa married to Bl elizabeth izabeth creager in ty virginia october 1837 in the spring of 1841 he was baptized I 1 futo juto the church of jesus christ of latter day saints sainta on the of september 1813 he left virginia to unite with the saints at nauvoo illinois which place he reached ia in the fall of the same year where he spent the winter in the following 81 spring ri D 9 he went to brown county illinois 1 0 and staid till the fall of 1845 when he returned to nauvoo and was ordained one ne of the seventies he shared in the expulsion of til the twe e mormons cormons Mor mons in 1846 and went with the church to council bluffs iowa lowa j where he be enlisted enlis in the Mor monJI Battalio nand leaving his family 1 at the aluffi Blu biu fifa marched with his company to mexico in 1847 being detached with sergeant thomas williams he marched from santa fe fo and wintered in pueblos traveling eastward they met the mormon pioneers on their way to the mountains he joined them and came to salt lake july i 1847 returning vilh with a company of S them to the states the same year yeara he rejoined his family at Counci council lw bluffs and staid there until june jeno loth lotu 1852 when he started with them for utah reaching salt lake in october elder shupe was ah ih old resident of 0 ogden where be he was widely known and respected ha he 4 was a member azember of the high coun cil oil for several beveral years and also a 11 mem i ber of the city council Councill ac acting tIngas aa alderman of the third ward for 1 some gome time |
