Show A P RICHARDS FUNERAL at ten minutes past six on the evening of saturday june ath the body of elder alma P richards which has be exhumed in gipsia sippi and b home for re inter ment arri vedat t morgan morgan county on the U P railway at ithe the weber depot a large throng I 1 consisting of about one half the population of the county was waiting to receive the remains and accompany them to the family residence pany in n littleton LitO Liti eton leton the vehicle in which the body was placed was supplied by the thirty bath cuprum of se seventies betl of which the deceased was a member the people for formed in order of procession and proceeded to littleton next day sunday a large concourse met at the Ric richards bardsy family y residence at half past 12 and organized into a procession the hearse was drawn by four black horses at the head of each of which was a young man leading immediately following the body were the mourners immediate family I 1 and relatives of the deceased followed by the presidency of morgan stake then the presidency and members of the thirty fifth quorum of seventies then all the officers and members of the mutual improvement associations the ling of march was taken up to the stake meeting house arriving at which the services began at 2 the stand was adorned with mourning insignia floral decorations etc everything being beautt ticul and artistic during the tire services the aged mother sat close to the casket which contained the body of her son the speakers on the occasion were elders abraham M H cannon J W Summer bays and elder parry the last named having labored in the missionary field with eljer elder richards the remarks of these brethren were consoling and instructive being strictly appropriate to the occasion in addition by special request of the father of the deceased who is known in welsh circles as canad jesse C little spoke a short time the procession from the meetinghouse to the grave was about the same as from the residence to the stake building with the exception that the hearse was preceded by the morgan city brass band which discoursed funereal music on the march the earthly remains of prother brother richards were interred in the littleton cemetery in the family lot in which he be buried a child only the day previous to his departure to fill the mission to chich he be had been called aud and from which he seemed fated never to return alive the deceased was a faithful and in every way an exemplary young man he was a teacher in milton ward and superintendent of the young mens mutual improvement association and of the sunday school of littleton much sympathy is felt for his bereaved wife and eb children ildren father richards desires that the thanks of himself and relatives of his deceased son gener generally saly be beeb expressed to one an I 1 all who have exhibited sympathy in many ways in the trying ordeal through which they have pissed passed |