| Show DEATH OF THOMAS H LEAVITT brother thomas B R leavitt formerly of Wella viller passed peacefully away may at half past 3 p in while not enjoying his bis accustomed health for some weeks past his illness that seemed anyway severe was short while surrounded by his faithful family and possessed of all his faculties he had just said a pleasant how do you do to an old friend when asked to be raised up taking a swallow of water he said let me go he breathed breached a few times and was gone the immediate cause of his death was the grip he was born in the town of compton eastern canada june 1834 and emigrated to utah in 1850 having received the gospel when hut but a boy he was one of the bravest most humble and faithful of latter day saints in 1858 he filled a most difficult and hazardous mission to the maquis indians indiana enduring untold privations and almost starvation he built the arat house bouse in wellsville and was a natural pioneer he resided there from the fall of 1856 till the same circumstances that have forced so many to break up the associations of years the tender ties of kindred and friends caused him to move to a place of safety so bo in company with a few faithful ones he journeyed northward arriving in alberta canada the of may 1887 HA hae e lie has built up a comfortable home laboring to establish firmly the feet of a persecuted people he was chosen as counselor to bishop J A wolf and in which capacity he won the confidence love and alad co operation of the saints here while not possessed of earthly wealth his was wa a nature to attract and attach his associates to him with bands of steel and the love confidence and devotion of his family as well as friends the noble deeds done here will give him that wealth that mortality cannot take with it beyond thia world of disappointment and sorrow he has ham had a family of three wives and twenty six children one wife and four children are dead fourteen of his children live here and all his family are faithful latter day Ss baines ilits logon journal |
