Show PATRIARCH JOHN BROWN deat DEAD at am this morning nov 4 patriarch Patri arob john brown peacefully mank bank into the sleep bleed of death at his die bt b me in pleasant grove utah county he had been suffering from a lung trouble which made breathing dim cult and had bad been much distressed during the night A moment before his bia last breath breata he turned his ata j slightly lightly as ae if to rest reet in a different position and so BO quiet woe was the end and that by his hie bedside scarcely realized it at first deceased was the on eon of john and martha chapman brown browni and was wae born barn october 23 28 1820 in ID sumner county tennessee he was baat zed by elder george P dykes in perry county amnot Illi nole in july 1841 and removed to nauvoo in the full follow owl li g 9 october on february 9 1842 he be was ordained an eljer elier by hyrum smith and soon afterwards went on a mission sion to the southern states and met with marked euclet e 0 may 21 1844 he be married mlee miss elsabeth elizabeth crosby in monroe moo roe county mississippi on N vember 12 1844 he be wits wae ordained a member 01 the eighth quorum of seventy he left sit nauvoo in january 1846 and went to missle mississippi sippi where he be assisted in organizing oriani orRan zint izing a company of fourteen families of saina whom he be led to pueblo on the arkansas river the company was joined by three families at independence mo and was dis appointed at huot falling in III with saints BRIMS from nauvoo he returned from pueblo to mississippi to lo october 1846 anu and went there to council bluff la in the spring of 1847 arriving j just bat in time to join the pioneers he was chosen captain of the letb too ten and was one of toe me chief hunters burners of that remarkable band aa the company beamed salt lake valley he moved on ahead with Alpo apostle istle orson pratt and consequently was one of tue tas first arat to got get a view oi of the valley and lake he returned to winter quarters in the isil fall of 1847 with the pioneer but came back to utan pod and settled with his family on oa cottonwood cotton wood we the next year in the fall all of 1849 he accompanied apostle parley P pratt on a prolonged exploring trip through southern mao returning home bows the next spring As a militia captain he was in the indian skirmish at battle creek utah county in 1848 ahou the nauvoo legion was organized he be was on the commanders oom mandera manders staff with the rank of 0 colonel he tilled filled various positions of 01 honor aud and trust civil military and ecclesiastical as and performed a lumber oi of missions of various kinds in the inter est of f the work of the lord on feb he be was ordained bishop 0 pleasant grove by president brigham young and he hol hola A that po eltion lor for twenty seven year on account ut of falling failing health he be was honorably released from it and ordained a patriarch previous to going to pleasant grove he elivea several beveral years in lebl he was mayor of pleasant grove fur twenty years when w nen he was disqualified lor for civil office by the he edmunds law his health was precarious when his son john Z brownt brown recently started on OB a mission to florida and the latter jutter for this reason was reluctant to leave home borne but bat the aged veteran told him it was waa the call of duty doty and beald be obeyed this was ever the rule of his life most moat of his children were present when the end came in response re to a question as aa to 10 whether be had any thing to say he replied rep liou no all is ie well all la Is right the funeral services will be held in the first ward meeting noua hous pleas ant grove on sunday next nov 9 at 2 p m he was an honest faithful latter day saint possessing the respect of of bis his brethren and sister ai etere and be died in the confident hope of a glorious resurrection |