| Show HONORS TO A VETERAN lawrence emery co utah S september 25 1897 yesterday a grand reunion was held j in our little village at the residence or 0 abraham day in commer commemoration of j his eightieth birthday at 11 J his children grandchildren and great Z j grandchildren assembled at his ral r ys dence the bishop and other mem beat J of the lawrence ward also assembled i and a pleasing program was j after the meeting a bountiful reemt V was spread and members of ates family partook of the good thin things f bided vided again at 4 the ass delatt and friends assembled and the 03 dren grandchildren and great gra children rendered another pleas pleasing aas 9 acos isa gram which was very enjoyable att those present in the evening the fantom ily and friends enjoyed themselves air a social dance xi one hundred and twenty se members of the family were prest fc who had come from far and neater some having come from 33 columbia some from wayne and alfr from grand counties and many 0 th t S from near by bishop moore a lail man being called upon to make ft a safe T remarks said that brother day a very numerous posterity but 4 he numbered a little moore morAl i noro fc 1 1 enjoyed themselves very much itt father day said they had made JW feel ten years younger 0 o v abraham day was born ia ves rha fc hall vermont in 1817 SePter september aber he received the gospel in perm penn where he also met and uma 0 elmira bulkley in 1838 1938 and the fhe p year gathered with the saints in 1 where they passed through the cautions with the saints when ta the for men to fight with mexico aku cuate he with others left his tt j wagon op the tha prairie and went tan ow C with that noble bead band fie turned in 1847 spec spading ting the alth atoff of october in salt lake then returned to his family at C cc bluffs passing through deark a as hardships from hunger and cold had experienced on that memo march to california he gal th with the saints again agal nIn in 1881 1861 and soona after espoused charlotte melon he is the father of twenty dhu su J dren eight of whom died fai fn cl and seventeen are still livi alv fir family faintly with their husbands husband Is wl i JL children now numbers bumbel 0 17 maintained his integrity to and man and is now hale ind and though somewhat feeble striving to finish the good N commenced it ELI A DY |
