Show A VETE VETERAN GOE gor DATH or ol i A MEMBER OF tue tun mox moy N BATTALION I 1 the news comes from grav gray graves W valley plute pinte county of theat theates nS brother ebenezer Eb onezer hankst which place a c a at his home at live pil in minutes n tit lit as past 3 3 in enon iaron on the ath of april ills lils death itaf as caused li ed by I a severe attack of brig brights lits uhn iff disease ca ease from which he had been ailing more or less for some two months mouths hs previously the deceased was ga years of age the lith of last february lie ile was born in washington county counti new york lie ile was one of captain browns company of the I 1 battalion which served in the wat wilh with mexico and was one ot of the detachment in charge of tho the sick soldiery luls luis wife traveling ig with him ancamp in camp life and and aud attending with him the sick at pueblo until relieved to comb to salt lake ael aul ita valley iley ilcy they arrived here july 25 th 1847 only one day behind the co company in pany led by president young Droth booths bi hanks was soon sent to the society IsI midson on a mission an and on arriving in california learneTt learned that hat there was no chance to proceed farther he reported back to tile tiie authorities of tiie the church and was then instructed to r remain C ni a in in san bernardino and help the mort mon men farm then in the occupation of the saints from from irom the spaniards ile he paid out some of his own means to help buy the land and remained there until the saints were called home he was way ther theme when ewhen col thomas L kane ane anc was sent to otah utah tall tali to conciliate matters after the united states army had been sent to utah to wipe out the mormons cormons Mor mons brother hanks was the man who furnished col Ka kane kare with a four mule team and provisions and paid a driver to take him to utah the cost of the outfit amounted to over and was freely given he was the first man to build a cotton factory in utah and spun the first roelof reel of cotton yarn yam it was h he who caho opened up tile the iron tron mines la in iron county alil airi and aud mado made the first able iron irony ever brodu produced cad cod fro from the ric rich ih iron ores of that district lder ider laid I 1 id out it is said some in helping alon aion along that enterprise he became bankrupt and at 68 ye years nofe hofe I 1 of age started out to again hunt a home for ills his famil family y and settled on the lower lowar pant pann art of the Free freemont mont mout river eiser better known cnown as the dirty devil river audin one short year again established his family in a home before he was called J r away he was burned buried on the south sides side of 9 1 the freemont river ulver on a beautiful beautia 1 1 level plateau designed for a cemetery A short service had been held at the residence of thel thal deceased brothers richard luchard Gib gibbons bodis bofis and johns john S ferris bein being the speakers r about thirty hours before brother hanks expired expire do he roused out olat of 0 ahk shi stupor of of und and lold loid brother fernis ferris that it wasi all nii night fight he lle had bad no nothing to fear lit he was going home to gob GOJ god and bore a faithful ati testimony of the truth of the gosp gospel eland and the work of god on the earth |