Show 4 1 monumental MEMENTO I 1 SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE PRESIDENT JOSEPHY oung OUNO IQ in another part of the paper ap pew a communication from the first presidency ot of the seventies which is self explanatory tho the MOu monumental mental memento referred to was placed over the grave of the respected dead on the at 11 am of that day elden elder H 18 S eldridge john van cott W W taylor a B young E B tripp robt campbell and joseph watson surrounded the resting place of the remains of oatha the good man and the stone token of respect was placed in position brother eldredge offering the dedicatory prayer today to day accompanied by brother 8 B young we visited the cemetery and examined the monument which is one of the most chaste beautiful and appropriate we have ever been seen the slab which covers the grave is eight by three feet set into it is a piece of white marble upon which is cut a sheaf of wheat and a little below nearer the middle of the block another piece of the same game kind hind of marble is laid which is the word peace the meaning of both combined being being after the harvest peace at the head of the horizontal slab ia 14 the base basse of the monumental part which is two feet 10 inches long one foot four lour inches wide and one foot high of the same species of granite of which tho the temple of this city is being built the monumental slab is of pure while white american marble over the top of it is cut so to as to li dao har drapery with W a cord and tassel attached at each of the four cor corners hers lower down 0 on n a falida polished poh shed tablet is the following inscription sacred to the memory of JOSEPH YOUNG second son of john yo young ung nd nabbie how bom born april ath 1797 died july 1881 1681 11 erected by his fir ethien brethren of the seventies seven ties to our president he was appointed by the prophet joseph to be the ilie first president of all the seventies a position he be filled with honor until the day of his death the degn design of the monument is unpretentious yet beautiful and ap prop ate to the tho character of the respected veteran over whose grave the he testimonial has been erected the form ia Is in accordance with suggestions gest ions of the family of the deceased and the tile work which is executed in an unexceptionable manner was done by the watson brothers this stone testimonial is a fa nitting fitting tribute to a man whose sympathetic nature overflowed with the milk of human kindness 3 11 yet his memory lives in a far more p precious e place the hearts of the lat ter day saints who will cherish a kindly thought joseph us long as time endures |