Show A HISTORIC VILLAGE in saturdays NEWS was an sin an of the return home borne of mr B F cummings jr of thin tb to city from rom an extended tour io in the east and be has baa furnished the following account of a visit maue made by him to the village of mention monroe county now new yo which has hag been made famous by the th achievements of two men whom it claims claim as ae its if on and who at least leaah in a souse began their ili usurious rious care careen erfil within though Biri brigham gnam young and heber C kimball wf war not bot natives of that village they wera living in it when they entered upon that mlois try which resulted reaul ted in giving them a world wide fame the vil village laite contains a population of about and to a saber anat auk and thriving place it la Is aboia twelve miles milea south of the otty of Ro Roo obeater heW and Is 1 not reached oy a railroad the nearest depot i rw some ome enree miles ail distant this ism f adds adde to its ito rural character living la the village on a farm about a vai VA irom from its ito center in IB mr horn hom r 8 KI kim ball a son bon of solomon F KIM kemball who was waa a brother of heber C khat ball mr Cam ming called upon bij baij anil and was wai received with the be kindly and hospitality mr mg xi la is a fa la in comfortable birou itan oe to is 69 59 years year of age la of active tomp temperate erato and industrious via pie and cordial in his bla wanner manner of ft somewhat ome what rt linious turn of mind an aart I 1 an atte auant luant dan t at Bervi services oell in a presby te rian church though will bia parents were in faith be was w raised hr his wife to ia a woman of quiet unassuming ways but a slight liebi acquaint aboe nos indicates indicate her bet to be a woman of marked amiability of character they bave ave three children sonly one of whom a young youn lady clady waa van at home mr kimbail poke with affectionate reverence revere oce of his hie uncle heber and dec ardd that the latter was waa always alway held to ID high regard by his brother salemon P F though ue the awo differ differed 44 ra really in views view mr kimball BIBO also spoke poke very kindey and respectfully of several of his co cousins bolus sonia of heber haber C who had mendon in past when abroad on missions his afa conversation that hat to in years he had bad participated more or less im la in a tooling eel log of opposition towards the religion ot of his illustrious uncle but that in robent recent years year at least the ties of blood were not weakened on his bin part pan by suon much pen iten time to 8 mr cumminas Cum eurn mina mines arrived at mr kirn kim ballve ball ve on fri lay jay even evening fog july 19 and on the f day the latter took him filin in a buirgy to rate me m e 0 certain points of interest one of these IN IB a small burying ground situated near a crow rose komats called s nerr nere about a mile from the center of we tue village in the da daa a when brighom young anti and haber C kimball lived in mention a man named tomlinson kept a tavern ate at rom joaie is and frum from him hida h lominy was named on reaching the or broads roads the buggy was driven Of cabot ward ard along one ne of them and past a row raw of five or six houses a fow fer rods rode apart they were ill all ol 01 looking structured 0 one th walla anaf roof had bad lallen ln in 16 aa to make it it totally uninhabitable hili bItable or of an another others the win dow were broken and its ito dilapidated appearance that chat it was ten tea anilee fl the others were all occupied 1 of the houses in this rol row heber C U kemball lived but hla big 20 nephew khow I 1 wits wa not certain which blob it was near hear the end of his row of houses lp labe little grave yard spoken of I 1 it I 1 only a few rods rod el ei ground fenced aft fl irum from a potato field id hi an scotland spot land and III ie in a being overgrown with woods weeda and brambles in this small mall goda s acre repose the remains of several veral econs who will be held in aang remembrance because of their relationship to the leaders leader of lai ter day israel i tamed above if for no reason one of these persons to ie solomon f brnham kimball lather or of hot er air C kimball kimba ill at whose grave is a tone owns be ariME atio following inscription epitaph und and trost dicu follow follo dire 2 rea Bloe lobl tationa of the original as a be reproduced in sacred to fa the memory f of f kimball who fao departed ted this lye my 9 1825 in the 5 lot fedir of his i age ge v i A d jive to so die di lr we or imely tcp tomb arvia 11 tuu aru W VM shoff shaft if 11 ue me kirtio bide of ciale arve is fritot AP ba w wite lie of f solomon fa F and muther 01 heber C Hilb kimball ball and on 6 pro otly r sonoe Is i this re to the ate memora memo mean rj afa of annh hnz cons consort ort of bao solomon am on V babp who departed decarte d this lift fife feb 0 ab b is aged 61 jt A vj life hr daims i zake af a an fn it I 1 ai bf bufore or atlie the storm ohe ahe suard swid tu to worms worlds on high ear r lafave two iwu rava la 19 of 40 charlta is a a j tbt of 0 0 Jf tuba in 4 and on a stone ot at ita As head bead I 1 I 1 EA ti t i kimball K I 1 M 16 i i icso i age 88 80 years fond memory aji long shall awer oer this m and faithful friendship never cease to mourn by bv the side aide of me krave grays of at clariee caarl S la in that of big bl wile wife judith P whose epitaph to M follo fol lowr wp sacred to ta the nemory memory of judith P kimball consort of charles 8 kimball and daughter of james marvin of connect Conne ot died june 20 1824 aged 24 years lo 10 when this film dlen I 1 moir ble weeps a afrie friend a wife a mother sleeps in in death res reo g ged ed she felt the wound she left I 1 b hind aw infant image here below tit its smiting on woe twe varae was aa original and referred to a now new born babe which the mother left in te bare of her bereaved berea Ted bus bug band despite desiate its ite which in st it least in part due to the sculptor who abd made the stone BIOBO there in striking in 18 it this babe lived only two yearB as indicated bythe by the following lowing fal tion 06 gravestone in 1 i memory of suel ruel marvin sun of charles judith kimi ball who died awl 17 1876 1 aged 2 years cabarle 8 S abd J buith P kimball buried a child before this one which did D n t live lire tong long enough to be named its if epitaph lc Is an aa follows follow in memy memory mem y of an infant daughter of charles and judith kimball who died jan 20 1822 happy efant rf ant forty early blest best n p ac fat slumber rest em bat ly IV v arn the cares which W ich increase wah growing y years acus about a quartee 0 at juiia hii irn ir joa n the little om ometery eiery or oi Tomlin cona 0 men from the above were taken still stands a good alz d farm bause now weather beaten and the fur age which at the cline the 0 apol was first preached in mea me a uon dou oy by W famely the sainto held bold their meetings me in it anti and enjoyed toe gift 0 tongue in is a manner that created huoh excitement at the lime to la atall well fp remembered aou and thea of by 01 alil re llidO DW op I 1 leading in ane I 1 cemetery ct mr alai ap bill bi 0 0 6 hia M gut t tu to the bentor 0 0 the lbs bilag where an accidental tAl WOW met ja lux 11 yak waa bod quite an q lot groot tips wae janiel alien 86 JOWS aja boltl and a rB ablat lat t of from arom A me wae in hip hi youn day Polion pero alij with WILO the of I 1 heber C I 1 and their with Brig tiam renumbered rem many ot 01 thom ibm JN his hia great aar gr mr mr allen A lien is hale bale lie he toted to show mr cumminas Cum minus remembrances remembran cea of Brig haai young U dg A and ll 11 a lor for tb abl is pu purpose anae led b him I 1 M to a bokop boua iu in the villa village geow owned nod by a relative QI of mr allen alien in the rear of u anlon abood a bulb clug looked ia ake a w Wu chist said aid mr mf ajlen rp ip 49 ahe S two entered the tep vis i I 1 11 8 pa W adel XI fisfis all a idd rat and the lower part was wa buted M 14 carpenter shop this was the home borne of it brigham young and his hi tint first wife JOD shod alter alir way they were married mr allen alien then explained how this por portion ot of the original building bad been removed to its if present site alte while the remain remainder dw was wa destroyed and how that a new roof had bad been put on it and the walls walla fifty W been largely replaced with now new lumber but the frame work and rafters were the original the shed chedi for it was little else elre was waft about twenty feet long and about ton ten feet wide and hence would have made two living rooms not far frow from ton ten feet square jacb on the ame same promises was waa a woken coop partly of pieced of a quare equale picket fence which was made uy by brigham young with his big own hands banda and toole not fur far from the year 1832 1882 mr allen alien seemed emed pleason jle aad to show abow thae relies and proud to claim as a townsman the man to whom they related while standing anding at in the shop mr allen alien narrated to mr cummings an incident highly characteristic of his bla famous to which he be was waa a witness at a latter day saint metting held bold in a certain building in mendon one evening at as which brigham young a young man abrose and said be foit feit it to be his hie duty to be the hour was w nar midnight the meeting having halving been a prolonged otie one but elder young said bald to the youth it is your duty to be baptized it la in my duty to baptize you bad it 11 you are ready we will attend to the matter now near by wi was a grist mill and in tue the tail race was an apron over which the water and falls ell and bad in tont way washed a hale bole large and deep enough tor lor a baptism into the water here without delay or parley eider lder young led tue convert aad baptized zad him mr allen alien Is a man of some come means meana and la in a chUd less widower years year ago be began to Inte Into reit himself in the village giua cemetery and mainly at hia own expense boa baa caused it to be entirely cleared of bows wows and brambles bramblee put in order siad ud made a beautiful lawn ha haw he to 40 place of he ro mailis of many assar punoo persons who had bad formerly been Idea identified tided with but bug bad baa died eleew berci lie he informed mr commings that the grave of th first wife of president ident brigham yuna whom maiden news name wow wa miriam works work was wa in ia the little cemetery bb sonva and that thai it was by bar a stone on which wae the initials am M Y 1 ind and nothing more more but mr aumai jag not knowing it waa oas there nau not I 1 been it when be aimed the gi ginakes nAves mr alwa ailed expressed espre ed MO an brunt desire def treto to permission tr fr m the you ag family in utah to remove the remains to the village come foryt he would jil atily do it at ills hl own expense he goon ine emotion when speaking upon too toe so BO much so ao that bat his hi eyes were aut lemed with moisture he declared that mention mendon had a right to fco claim young an ag one rf kf her bar sons that he be was wae a man of worldwide world wide ame and that he be mr allen alien would like to have the privilege ot at showing t wo wa respect to the oRm alsis of A beate be ff as at we dam whom the latter had Warr JoLl and bur but burr r Is lo 10 hi Riu bood mr allen alien added that he had often conducted vial visitor torp who desired to see the grave of brigham youngs first wile wife to the becire be cure and neglected spot where it lies iles and that he and dotur otur old residents of the town would be glau glad to see her bar grave in the village cemetery the latter mainly through the efforts ot of mr allen alien ban baa been made a spot of great beauty A pamphlet containing a record of all the graves in it giving the nar carnef neF with dates of bartra death etc ate of the previous bur jai ial there has baa been prepared and pub dished by mr allen alien and he gave mr cummings Cummi several everal copies of it mr kimball heartily endorsed the sentiments senti menta of mr allen alien and it IN ia undoubtedly true that instead of the former feeling of prejudice brig ham bam young and heber 0 kimball kimbal and especially against their religion which formerly prevailed among the inhabitants of toe neighborhood which was the scene of their early labors in the ministry their former townsmen begin to feel a pride in them and a desire to do them honor this disposition now being beine shown in Man mendon dori proves two tb twinges inges that the old prejudice and animosity tow towards ardethe the latter day saints is softening down throughout the country and that it to Is much easier for the world to honor a prophet after be la Is dead than while his bi war warning voice is still heard board among the abe living |