| Show correspondence A WORTHY MAN malcho WHO DIED IN 0 EXILE GONE TO REST may editor deseret news 1 I think it no more than justice to th the e family and f fri tenda of th elate brother alma millett to publish a short sketch of his life in your valuable and widely circulated paper he was the son ol of artemus millet sen was born in kirtland ohio in 1834 he was early left without a maternal protector jais his father with his children moved to nauvoo in 1843 from which place they were driven in cummon common with vv itla tue toe saints having previously shared in all thu tho persecutions of the chuich crossed the plains plain in 1850 was selected as one of A the minute men at the time of the walker war to protect the people of Sau sanpete pete and their property from the of the red men duty he performed with ua abated energy and for which he be never received a fart nin from the government may 12 1 1855 he h e married harriet daughter of william beal at a later late date lie he married eunice slater sister to his first wife the two were never separated until driven into exile by tile the late per at the time of the buchanan Buc banan raid johnsons army alma was with lot smith when his brother artemus blanket was riddled with rape grape shot he knew no fear he moved from manti to moroni in 1859 hurt himself lifting took cold and to all appear ancas was who now lives in hastened to meet joseph millet brother of alma from mantis to hurry him up before his bis brother breathed his hia last he hastened on and could hear tue tae death rattle in ia almas throat as he entered the house he hastened to the bedside and in the name of the lord rebuked the disease alma exclaim exclaimed died with a plain and ana distinct voice thank hank god 1 shall now live or something ing to that effect he soon recovered and ana he moved back to manti in 1860 in 1861 1851 lie he was called to dixie settled in Sho helping to start the new settlement after af ter spending a good portion of his bis time lime against the indian raids raida at the time ot of trie the navajo war in the fall of 1886 he was called to tube take at settled in spring valley where he again helped to start a new settlement in 1871 while chasing some stock his horse ran against and stumbled over a ste eruna fe fell ll 11 alma who was louied vieb uia ais head doubled under him aud way was taken up for lead dead elders eldera came iu in and administered to him he was at once le ie stored by the power of gou god atter alter being released from spring valley lie he settled in scipio where his father artemas millet died he Hewa wa aith and took care of his father during his bis alck sickness in 1874 after which he was soon called to Sho by president briehan young where he remained until which time having visited arizona in 1880 he moved to mesa A T at the time of the legal raids made against the latter day saints when men were being sent seat to detroit for obeying the commandments 0 o god he took a portion of his bis family and in connection with others went to old mexico we consider he has died a martyr to the cause of christ re he died on the of april 1886 he leaves two wives eleven children children cb ildren and seventeen beven grandchildren gransb ildren brother alma head the office of a seventy he was ordained and set iset apart in the jorty eighth quorum at the time of its organization in manti in may 1857 tremain your brother in the gospel S K GU A VETERAN AND PATRIARCH PIMA graham co Arl arizona ilbna may 18 1 I 1 I 1 editor deseret news will you vou please publish in your paper thet the death of joseph Mat hewie for or the information of his bis many relatives and f friends in utah he has been afflicted for the last two years with general debility Super induced by old age he was taken with a sudden attack on the alth of may and died on the H he e was born on the of january 1809 in johnson co north carolina he embraced the gospel A the fall of 1843 and moved to nauvoo in the fall of 1844 where he be worked on the temple and performed other miss missionary ionar labors jabors was with the saints through through all their persecutions from that time he was one of the pioneers in 1847 of utah was one of the first with brothers 0 pratt and erastus snow who entered the valley of great salt lake he was with the company of parley P pratt in the exploration of southern utah in 1851 he was called to california f with charles C rich eich and amasa M lyman and came back with the saints to utah in 1869 and 1870 he was a missionary to the southern So athern states and in 1880 he moved to arizona 0 patriarch W wm in mcbride spoke at the funeral service he had bad been becu acquainted quain ted with the deceased from 1844 up to the present he said that both he and his property were always on hand for the kingdom of god president christopher layton add counselor wm win johnson and george glass made imade some brief bat appropriate remarks deceased was the father of 15 children 52 grunde grandchildren hildren and 54 great grandchildren most of whom are in utah dematthews DH D H MATTHEWS MATTHE WS correspondence AS ASA A PROPHET lz LB VALLEY EY tennessee i may 1886 defect nes some weft dri dr talmage chaffe in one of ins follower to I 1 led a return le to theocracy amyas as following dg a period of an 8 achy present events in th the the 4 movements C of f I 1 ip ift go W would u id ank call cay cayette ethe aha 1 abd tbd pro will probably aply Js aee eq ai in 14 the events almost daily transpiring but tile passions oa of 4 toe however r who have baft admonished can but receive wa as a warning I 1 J I 1 OPPy smON atoned i TONED DOWN The wan man Johnson whom I 1 mentioned unto has so for far improved improve a as to be able tobe to tp be up a greater part ot of the day and ret get about the bouse bo use using crutches el bi der V held several impromptu implom tu readia Ks hodwi my well r attended the neighbor neighborhood boo has bas beba among the most rabid oarb 6 mgt 1 tte 1 eldeta El deTo since these 9 av been ben inaugurated however the opposition has become considerably sider ably toned boned down so much so that we have but little said now in fact I 1 since my last there have wen been two baptisms ap iu ia this branch oneff one of whom is a resident of the above neighborhood DOUBLE DYED speaking of at opposition to mind in ind thai that P r etli think there here are a e only two persons in this county now enacting the role of 11 mormon eaters one is the rebel raider mentioned in my last the other is one J P davis alias alia wash whose character is too noisome to vonti ventilate late he is a school teacher in this vicinity lives an olal man whose young daughter was an imbecile almost an idiot this fellow davis seduced her and when before a magistrate to answer a complaint of bastardy made affidavit ot of denial all the circumstances of bis are well known in the neighbor built tuilt kod many cases of a similar nature including one of ravishment in chica which he figured can be vouched couched for it is principally pally such asne ashe that are most ra rabid id id chev ther the church THE FESTIVE SPARROW I 1 notice in the NEWS that you are much troubled with english sparrows I 1 read in some paper how bow a laly lady managed about dug the them in I 1 out she made a trap and caught them putting them in a cage fed aw then until she had enough to make a pot pie sue spoke of them as being a delicious dish to follow the ab above 0 y iha suggestion 1 stion may work up a boom 1 in cheap ar bird cages for some one THE ELDERS elders brown and head are betin yet in the eastern portion of the county 1 I have not heard from them directly but from other sources I 1 learn that the controversy forced upon them by dominie bannias bunn has redounded redound ed to their advantage and that of the truth elder the president of this branch vill jin them soba and will be of considerable aid to them beine and havin having 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