Show DEATH OF BISHOP POLLARD FEBRUARY 24 we announced the fact that bishop bohard of the fifteenth ward this city was seriously ill he bad been suffering for several days from an attack of of influenza pneumonia super supervened venedi and the good old man passed peacefully to the spirit world at five this morning feb in order to find a more honest man than joseph pollard it would be necessary to scrape the world over thoroughly with a mammoth dragnet and the labor of sorting over before reaching the object of pursuit would be a task of such magnitude that the undertaking would be abandoned as a hopeless enterprise A sterling character was he a trifle b blunt u nt being phenomenally outspoken but with a heart a as tender as that of a child achild the peo people teof of his bishopric loved him because they believed jab him although he was ready with sharp reproof for the evildoer evil doer and laggard he was equally prompt in dispensing sweet words of consolation and comfort to the unfortunate add erring ei aft 1 his sincerity erity was sublime his devotion what he conceived to be his duty In inspiring soAng and aad we believe that we do not overstate the facts when we say that probably no othet bishop in the church was more familiar with his flock collectively and individually aban the deceased it is greatly to his big credit thattie th atthe poor among his pi the objects of his 1 lie he was not an educated uneducated man so fh far as scholastic attal attainments are rb concerned cef tied but he had that species of exists through a combination nation of native good sense ripened experience and a conscientious regard for truth these qualities gave him a strong influence in his ward and ald caused his wishes to be ansti instinctively lnell respected joseph pollard was born at corfu corfe Cla castle Atle Dorset shire england nov erd 1819 1919 and was consequently in trie year beat of if his hillige age lige he heem embraced the gospel as revealed anew though joseph Josep hSmith smith the prophet I 1 in n an afi early earls day he left hAltia hia native tive country for this land and i abw arrived in n salt lake city in the fall fail of 1857 he was set apart as second counselor to bishop andrew cuu cun of odthe the fifteenth ward in 1861 itt in 1867 bishop cunningham resigned and succeeded by ito fio berv T btitton Bi Bt irton ifton to whom brother acted in the capacity of first counselor on 1877 the ward waste organized joseph being ordained bishop with william L binder and NV N V jones as his counselors this was the at the time of brother pollards PolI ards de death ath this morning the respected dead leaves behind him to mourn the de departure p aatu re of their head a wife seven children all daughters and twenty seven grand children the deceased was by trade a carpenter and for several years was in the the employ emoy of president brigham young for whose memory he cherished a fond regard for the last eighteen years he was in the employ dathe of the utah central Rail Rall in his dally daffy vocation ds in every other sphere in which he operated was a careful and conscientious laborer death came to him as a sweet bar harbinger bin gerof of rest which had no terrors for him Sever several vip times of late in the hearing of the writer he spoke ofine near approach of the end etien in his usual health saying he be was vms ready at any time the lord wanted him on the mothr side he had been to the temple and performed what work was within wiehl ii his power for his derd dead kindred and he felt he could meet them in the brighter land without having any compunctions as aa he had done his duty with respect t to those who had bad preceded bilto him to the extent of his ability we together with a boa of others sympathize with the bereaved fm family ily while at the same time convinced that bishop pollard was fully prepared prepared to take his bis departure having made his calling and election sure the funeral service was conducted at the fifteenth ward meeting house at 1230 on thursday february |