Show DEATH OF PHILANDER AND POLLY M COLTON editor le deseret berat news philander and polly M colton a venerable and most estin able couple were yesterday inet laid to rest real in the same grave at this place they had bad battled the storms of life together for over half a century and when the message of death entered their home they asked but to be taken together so true to each other in lire life they plead that they bey be nut not separated in death and the boon was g granted ranted them for but thirty six hours intervened their taking away philander colton was born in the state of new york october 1811 hence was iu his year his noble companion and helpmate was born in the same state but bat was five years hir hij ijunior junior they were married in 1833 and are the parents of eleven children seven sevell of whom survive them father aw and mother colton joined the church in the early thirties they suffered with the early saints and helped to build nauvoo father colton was a by tra j i 0 an and d wide made many of the brick that helped belde d to build that famous city in the great evacuation of 46 14 they left lef t a comfortable home and with the great body of saints turned ther faces to the wilderness when the government called tot fot volunteers from the fugitive camp to help their count rys cause against mexico father colton was one ahouse the first to respond and leaving wife and children in the wilderness as did the whole of the gallant band marched mar clied through untold suffering hardships and dangers to release the lands we now so peaceably possess from mexico on reaching g california he set to work tit at hia hiff trade and through frugality and hard bard work accumulated a nice little sum of money he claims to have made the first brick made in california returning to his famay cami y they settled in provo in 1 n the fall of 1887 they sold their home bome in provo and moved to ashley valley settling beside their sons father colton has long been a sufferer from rheu rheumatics matics and for a umber number n of years could only walk about with the aid of crutches during the past winter they were taken with la grippe from which they were not strong enough to recover after iw a lin gerbig illness of almost five months they were released by death mother colton on thursday the inet at p in father colton at a m on the As their lives have been spent in abe cause ot of christ he will not forget them B R 8 COLLETT VERNAL uintah co utah august 17 1891 |