Show OBITUARY NOTES i EMMA HILL fountain green april 26 1898 1899 after a lingering illness of five years duration emma hill died on the alth do day r of april 1898 she was born on t thea day of march 1811 she was baptized baptized into the church of jesus christ of latter day saints on septem bw 28 1860 by elder william weston at tipton staffordshire eng arid aad tb together Rether with her husban dGeorge hin hill their home was it a welcome place for the elders in their native land with her husband she emigrated to utah in 1853 1863 and went to strengthen the of sanpete in 1854 being called at the october conference ot of that year she died as she had lived bearing a testimony to the latter day work she mw has gone to join her husband and the fa faithful that have gone before waiting the resurrection morn mom ANNIE ELMER annii annie elmer was born at boxford suffolk glandon glandan En the ath day 0 1844 1944 became a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day Sada toby by baptism when 8 years yeara of age emigrated to utah in 1866 and was married to TO william W smith on the ath day of june 1870 she has been sufferer for years from dropsy she ling lingered eted on till april at 1130 a in when her spirit passed to the great beyond funeral services were held in the st Tabe tabernacle macle at 10 a m on the bishop andrus presiding the speakers were wem daniel mcarthur stake president elder wiliam atkin D H caanan Cu CA anon president of the bie st george temple and elder george Z jarvels each of whom had been personally acquainted quain ted with the deceased for man many ye arsand had known her as a true a and faithful latter day saint each of the speakers advised all present to emulate her good example and make for themselves as good a record as she has mado mada WILLIAM ATKIN SAMUEL ALLEN WILCOX samuel allen alien wilcox sen died of paralysis lysis at cedar fort utah county utah april 7 1898 deceased was born march 22 1819 in york state st lawrence county making him seventy nine years hearp and fifteen days old ne he embraced the gospel of jesus christ chris of day saints the lath of sep 1839 and moved d to commerce afterwards called nauvoo october 9 IMO 1846 he ae and his faithful wife martha en dutell many of the and I 1 the sainta passed through at nauvoo he wax was personally acquainted with the prophet joseph and hyrum ka smith itai and often bore testimony of their divinity as als bueb lie he has held positions of and honor in the churor at the une of his hl death W waa a high priest had belonged to the twenty seventh quorum of Se seventy veRty and was counselor to bishop S op ell bennett brother wilcox leaves a posterity of ten sons ten daughters sixty grandson soja twenty seven granddaughters granddaughter li and twenty flenty eight great grandchildren making A a grand r and total of one hundred and thirty five his two wives also survive him saturday APAI ath the cedar port fort meeting house was crowded with rele relatives and friends who had met to pay their last respects to father wilcox elders hacking and peterson and bishop bennett each bore testimony to the rity honesty and faithfulness of Steg rother brother wilcox saying he has been a j to the friendless and a father to the fatherless the word father was therefore appropriately inscribed upon the silver plate placed upon his EMMA PARKER CORDON on saturday last mrs emma parker cordon wife 0 of bishop alfrd ordon jr don r deceased passed quietly away she hias has been an invalid for twenty one years having suffered from a stroke of paralysis but though she was so feeble her death was not altogether expected her last lasit illness was of so short duration mrs cordon was born may 24 1819 at burslem Bur slum alum staffordshire england her birthday being the same date as that of queen victoria in 1836 she married to alfred cordon and two years later they joined the mormon church Septem september beT 1842 found them in whither they hd had come to be with those of their faith here they remained for three years when they moved again to burlington iowa and from there to pigeon creek in the same saine state the desire to be with their people again urged them on an and in the spring of 1851 they started to salt lake valley where they arrived in october of the same year they made their home at salt lake city until 1865 when they moved to brigham city in the feal fail of 56 they settled art ait willard and there they remained until death the story of mrs cordons cordona Cor dons life closely follows the history of the church and to is one ot of privation end and struggles she saw the early persecution of the church and suffered buffered from it ft her husband on mission to foreign lands la aids leaving her in the most abject poverty bovet once he stole stale away in the night because he could not bear to bid his itly goodbye and then go awa away Y leaving neither food nor clothing and scarcely any shelter shel tek but this little wife was brave and while he preached the gospel she prepared the ground and raised food for her family with great exert exertions ioris she managed to keep them from actual starvation but not from want she lived a heroine and even in her long years of illness illanes she ahe stood true to her colors she was a noble woman she leaves a host of friends to reverence her memory and on the other side she greets another host she was the mother of fourteen children grandmother of o f sixty four and great grandmother of forty nine of these there are still living seven children fifty three grandchildren and forty three great grandchildren n salt lake papers please copy D THOMAS ALFRED AIRBED JEFFREY died at loa lioa wayne county uto utah april aurel oth of general debility thorny ir fo alfred jeffrey born nov 8 18 g at allsby Northampton shire ta england gialto eldor elder jeffrey offrey 7 was into the church bf jesus christ of latto latter day saints jm aftreth arch 26 1848 at hill H ill mortan in the rugby branch bf tae the warwick shire conference by thomas dayt day add in november of the same year was or de dalnes Alfted an elder eider and appointed to preside over the watford branch where he remained for two years and then went to guilsborough where he pre a short time in 1863 1853 he was appointed to take charge temporarily of the leicestershire Leicester shire conference where he met miss mary ann hibbit who became his wife in december of the same year in 1867 he was appointed to take the oversight of what wem was known as the wymondham Wymon Wymond dham harn district the same being half of the norwich conference in 1858 he presided over the bedford conference and from there was sent to dundee end and presided over that conference in 1859 he emigrated to america in 1860 remal remaining nIng in new york for one year and then came to utah and made his first permanent home in st george washington county in 1862 and passed through the hardships of the early settlers in th dixie country his health was poo most of the time he moved to pine I 1 ine valley in 1882 and the next year was ordained a high priest by apostle erastus snow assisted by apostles allford woodruff francis M lyman and george teasdale dale his first wife never bore him any children and died in 1880 at st george rh in 1862 he mar riad elizabeth cowper by whom hd had seven chill children dren three daughtery daugh teft and d four sons one of whom Is now in the southern states preach hing ling the GOB goa pel brother jeffrey moved to loa in 1889 since which time Ms his history haa 1104 been closely connected with the mato history of the county as he has been county treasurer from the organization of tha county in 1892 up to the day of ht death and was also postin postmaster aster in loo for four years until fortunes political ceJ wheel turned him under for a a man who voted another ticket g died as he had lived loved full of 0 fafty in ta taj gospel gomel leaving behind him the histo history of an exemplary life and many mamy frien arlenda who while they miss his society fegi chaa he had h ad passed the milestone mile stone of a life that clarks three score aad ten fifty years of which he has lai laj bored as aj a minister of the gospel goepel and was waa worthy to pass to the great beyond to re belve the reward of his labors in the he kingdom of our Pa Father ither WILLIS E ROBISON |