| Show FATHER HAWK A SKETCH OF THE efe eee AND lia ija OF A A WOR WORTHY hun MAN A friend of the late elder william hawk of the binet nineteenth e e nth word ward familiarly mill mili arly ariy known to the t h e early settlers of utah as a 9 father hawk hands bands in a synopsis of his useful and exemplary career from it we learn leam that the faithful veteran was born in the state of penn penu pennsylvania a y I 1 v a n I 1 R a on n the third day of november 1799 was baptized into the church of jeana resna christ of latter dby day saints sainte byeller by eider rider moses mosea harris in the year 1834 and was waa ordained to the office of an elder at the dame same time ho he removed to kirtland ohio soon after his baptism and took an active part in the labors of the building up of that stake and the first temple erected in this generation unto the name of the kord mord when the saints were compelled to abandon kirtland he removed into missouri and from thence suffered mobbing driving persecution tion and affliction with the people of god until he be moved with his family to montrose iowa tows opposite iteN nauvoo antoo whence also with the faints ho he was forced to remove and went on to congell binari in the spring of 1846 on the dy of july 1846 he be and his pon ron nathau nathan enlisted en wed RS na member members sor of the dg mormon batal lin ion lon irn and shard all nir mtr trials of that loing long and dreary march through the wilds of kansas and new mexico to the pacilio coast he was one of the first americans to plant the national figg flag ulion upon the golden placers of california then finen a portion of mex loo ico accompanied by his son nathan he was employed by government authority top onvey the U B mau mab over overland lent to the and thur thus became the first carrier of the mail from california to the western frontiers returning from the missouri after faithfully delivering the U 13 mail at independence mo he settled in balt bait valley in lup mug rug mei WEI wo eted tg te ts the tim vegar mission in the spring of 1858 with the tho company of 99 ilver diver alver greys he marched into echo canyon in the fall of 1857 returned to salt lake city the same fall and in the following spring went to P pay a Y son bon thia this being the season renson of the moves move e of the saints to the south he returned to salt lake city in the flammer of 1859 1858 where he re aided until the day of his death 30 1883 he has eft laft surviving him in utah four daughters and has two son bon bome some somewhere were in the states of whom nothing definite Is ig now known he has 22 grandchildren living and 11 great he was ordained a member of the alth quorum of rev rag bentlet entler on the tha ath dayot july 1869 and was afterwards ordained a prebi preal dent of the fame pame quorum and remained so BO until the day of his decease father hawk was a devoted lat ter day saint steady zealous and unflinching his religion with him was upper uppermost moRt first irot last and at all times and he be has gone to j join the throng of the redeemed who have come up through great t tribulation lation and washed their robes and made t them h a M W whits hits jn in the blood of the lamb |
