Show APOSTLE CHARLES 0 RICH SYNOPSIS OF A NOBLE AND welli VELL mell SPENT LIFE shortly before going to press on saturday evening the news carne came over the wires of the death at his home in Paris Bear lake like co idane of apostle charles 0 rich who expired at half past two that afternoon coming at such a late hour bour it was impossible to give more than a brief announcement of the event and even now it Is to be regretted the necessary data is not no at hand nor the buace space at our disposal dispo Eal more ade adequate qute for a synopsis in greater detail of one whose ilfe lire and character were so pure and stainless and so eo worthy of extended chronicle charles coulson rich was the eon of joseph and nancy rich and was born on the of august 1809 in campbell county kentucky his grandparents grand parents were thomas and ann rich and his hib great grand parents joseph and sarah rich he was baptized into the church of jesus christ of lat ter day saints april iet let 1832 in tazewell county illinois by bygel geo goo M hinkle hinkie and on the of at may of the same bame year was ordained an elder eider under athe the hands of Z bedee abedee Coltri coltrin ns in fountain county state of new york he was a member of ziona zions ca camp mpg ipg holding the position of captain of ten in the immortal who in the month of june 1834 went up to missouri to redeem zion on the of april 1836 at Kir kortland thud ohio he was ordained a high priest by order of the high council hyrum byrum and john smith officiating z in the ceremony in th the evear year 1837 he removed to Caldwe caldwell lr county missouri and in the following august at far west wag waa made president of the high quorum being ordained by WW phelps and john ohn whitmer during the persecutions of the saints in ca 41 well and davies counties chevas he was elected captain of nifty nitty and in the battle of crooked river which followed was next in oarn earn command to david W V patten who was theresI there slain blain aln ain upon the death of the latter captain rich took command and a few daya days afterward returned to far west on the urmi arrival val vai there of the state forces ordered out by governor boggs he lie was wag sent out to meet them with a flag of truee truce and was fired on by captain bogard a methodist priest when about twenty feet distant on the first of noam november iber 1838 1638 by counsel of presidents hyrum smith and brigham young he fled into the wilderness north in company with about twenty five others whose lives with his own had been threatened they bent their course towards the upper settlements on the Des deb desmoines moines river bivers low iowa lowland nand and during the eleven and a haitas baltas intervening between then and their safe arrival at quincy suffered ered ored privation from hunger and cold he was chosa chota chosen tt at the general conference held in nauvoo october eth 1839 a member a of the high council and on the soth of march 1811 was cholew chosei and ordained a 8 counselor to the thi of the stake william marks officiating in march of the preceding year he had been elected captain of a 11 militia company and one year later captain of a company of the nauvoo legion the same month according toa ton to a record in his own handwriting be became brevet brevell colonel of the first regiment regiments second cohort of the legion and in inthe the following may Colon colonel elof of said regiment in sep 1841 he succeeded to the office of brigadier general of the second cohort made vacant by the death of don carlos smith in june of the following year he was elected brevet major general generals and in august 1844 major general in the legion lie he had previously been appointed in the may of that year the month before the tha martyrdom of the prophet and patriarch by president joheph joseph smith to preside over an electioneering electioneer ing campaign in the state of michigan when the prophet joseph became a candidate for the presidency of the united states in company with david fullmer fu llmer ilmer and others he held a convention in jackson michigan fo formed i rm an election ticket for general smith and sent delegates to the united states convention on hearing bearing of the murder of joseph and hyrum he returned to nauvoo he had been a member of the city council since march 1841 and in february 1845 he was elected am alderman of that city as brg 18 ka Q af B nal oal a 9 events intervening the one last named and hla hig entrance into salt L ike lake ake valley cannot now be given he lle was ordained an apostle on the of february 1849 being one of four chosen chofen to fill as many bacan cies cles in the quorum of the twelve the other three were lorenzo Ii orenzo snow snowy erastus snow and franklin D richards the ordination of brother bich bieh took place at the house of george B t wallace in this city president Pre aident brigham yung vung being mouth tn the year 1851 he sr pompa nied elder almaa amna M lyman tyman and a colony of dafter latter day raint wo into uth jtb southern rn california and found fount ed the settlement rett Pett lement of ran bernardino which ws war abandoned by the rinta reinia on tho breaking out ont of me the utah war in 1857 after peace wa war restored he be wacl wai appointed on a lon ion tn ti england en eland and left for nak mak that foreign shore in company with elder lyman may lat 1869 the two were associated together with elder george Q cannon in the presidency of the european mission returning from abroad he be was next appointed tk to pioneer and pt tle the berr rear lake recin reglo nand in 1863 located rich lrich portion of which is now bear lake coun tv idaho on the esth of april 1865 he be arrived in thir thur chy cuy from tromm the north to attend conference conferences having traveled 40 miles milea of the journey on enow shoeb shoes on the ath of 3 june une 1872 accompanied by his son bon josph joseph C be left fr for the east to vilu viiu his relatives in kentucky indiana and illinois and re returned birned about the last of the following july anly having gathered up information concerning hin hii genealogy among many other othe r important ties he wn wa was as member of tharom mitt cittee es having in charge the erection of the logan temple his death was caused by caraly sis bis with which he was waa stricken down about three years yearb ago since pince which he be has been slowly sinking W os the publio are already ai pady aware from numerous items published jn in this naper paper from time to time apprising them of his condition brother rich need needs no encomium he ee lived and died a hs horland ro ano and a saint maint and after a jon Jong period of usefulness aud sud unwavering integrity hag hns gone to rest leaving to the world and a numerous posterity the illustrious example ut ot a ife afe and aud worn out in the bervice service of god and his the funeral services will wm tate place at paris patis bear lake county idaho on tuesday november at I 1 in the afternoon |