Show shrewsbury REUNION there Is a good deal of fascination in recurring now and again to the scenes circumstances and associations of youthful years particularly when the primary interests of any given group have been identical for a long series of experiences in any special direction this was brought very forcibly to mind during the present conference week when quite a gathering of those who once belonged to the shrewsbury england branch of the church Chure haway away in the late forties and early eaily together the special occasion for the gathering which was at the residence of brother david sames james of this city was to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his baptism by an elder in that ancient town the participants included brothers james bishop six ward T V williams twelfth ward H W Na twentieth ward C C shaw of hyrum and C D evans evana of Spring springville ville who had been with ones exception raised together gone to tha same school and all when on the threshold of manhood had received the gospel and have been faithful thereto tn in all thi the vicissitudes of trial and experience peri ence from then to date travelling tra velling in the ministry serving the people in other capacities and all yet living to narrate to their children and their childrens children the Inte interesting stor 01 their eventful lives these brethren have halve been as true to each ap other r as they have been to the gosi apel interest has bas pat lh an any amny case ie faded ed either in prosper r adversity atley have wept with each other when jhc n there waa occasion oo 00 for sorrow and tears and they have ive rejoiced together on promotion anda success whether temporal or spiritual old V the e old braach was a united one it to Is united yet though may chaj changeat igea have taken place among those thoe who ho constituted the same game two laid down their lives on the plains mar maa and akers several have dieal di cirtin rtin in utah full of faith jane wife of david davs james sinah wife of james basho blahos emma wife of bishop stewart and ass sister johnson also henry c standard draper richard howells of p radi the first wives of brothers T V williams and H W naisbitt have bota h gone and of other faithful and yet wt living ones of that same branch art ir mrs eliza hindley american pork fork ann james farmers and ann airam also mary and william bishop of paradise brother jesse gardner gardner of Spring springville ville and richard griffiths and 0 wife salt lake city harry Gw grillias illias ogden and william humphreys pera dise father humphreys father jav jame e and wife also sleep the sleep sleen of n the faAth faithful ful in the same little town in the south of cache A few children belonging e to different members of this shrewsbury group are also on the hill sides of the localities where their barents dwelt three bishops have grown out of these members T V Willial williams ng W war so thirty years teacher and sabbath school superintendent and CD even evan now patriarch was famous as an advanced school teacher for many yeam and Z C M 1 I can testify to the services of two at least A couple ell mayer and thomas austin are san bernardino regretting their absence from the gathering point two or ethree three of the king family who gathered are at present and a few remained lived and died in the old town one of johnson family re a en route to utah in massachusetts chu the family in pitta burg three johnsons who came here are lost as to locality and the reeves family are in salt lake city among the members of the church this brief history was conned over mentally and deemed a remarkable showing for the number contained to in that working little branchi branch after supper the time was spent to in reviewing the incidents of early and later experience in reading the counell council records of the branch embracing ft a series of years the several secre recognizing their own minutes bunting up ordinations and changes with such running fire of comment as we waft suggested by the reading brother john james and wife william james and wife sister ann james all Salo pons and the wives of the brethren together with their husbands had a good and glorious glor loua time and one suggested that if before the fathers departed this life theland the yand all their posterity and off offshoot shoots could be gathered together it would be soen seen that the little one had become a thou sand and the small one a strong nation with reluctance the separation i VA ia a to be made in time tor for tho cars cam and regrets were freely exchanged that all the absent had not been with us to enjoy a reunion long to be remembered corn |