Show AN interesting mantl manti utah july 18 1898 elder james wareham departed this life at his home in mantl on tuesday june 1898 at the ripe age of 84 years 11 months and 19 days the deceased was born in bedford co pennsylvania july 2nd and 1813 he was the youngest of a family of eight children his mother died when he was five years of age shortly after sad event his father lost all his property through the die dishonesty honesty of interested parties who took advantage of a flaw in the title deeds after this hs moved to giomi co ohio where he died five years later leaving his children in very straitened circumstances the daughters soon married and the elder sons were soon able to earn cheh own livelihood according to the laws of the state of ohio orphan children childr ert without any means of support were taken in charge by the town authorities and provided with homes pur to this arrangement little james then about ten years old was bound as an apprentice to a quaker named davis W thayer who owned and operated a woolen factory where the orphan boy was employed as carder spinner and cloth dresser in which branches of the business he became very proficient giving perfect satisfaction to his employer by whom he was treated as one of the family he was also permitted to acquire the rudiments of an english education upon attaining his majority according to the terms of his indenture he received his freedom together with a horse saddle and bridle and two suits of clothes about a year later in the year 1835 he was married to miss harriet adams a youn glady from Dayton who chanced to be visiting a married sister in the vicinity in the meantime he had re fumed his work in the factory as he had become indispensable to his former master of whom he rented a house in which the young couple commenced housekeeping not with any great amount of worldly goods but with youth hope and mutual affection as capital invested five years rolled by and iree children were born unto them two of whom died during their residence in ohio mt MP wareham was a man of af very spiritual nature and inclined to be intensely re li aig sious some time previous he had united himself with the methodist church as coming nearer to his ideal of true religion than any other doctrine he had heard advanced in the spring of 1840 however he be was destined to hear bear the glad of great joy for which he had so long waited elder john IEL page when starting on his contemplated mission to jerusalem in connection with elder orson hyde chanced to visit the town of west milton and while there preached the gospel as revealed to the prophet joseph but of all the people who heard the message of salvation Mr wareham and his wife were the only ones who were willing to receive 14 it and they were soon made to understand that obedience obdie nce to the divine command entailed sacrifice and tion on the day following their baptism mr thayer entered the factory and told his tried and trusted workman that he had no further use for him and that he could not work in his establishment on any terms whatever and this notwithstanding the fact that MT mr Ware hams work had always given perfect satisfaction nor did the malice of his employer end with hla his discharge as he immediately went to the proprietors of two other woolen mills in the vicinity and warned them against employing his discharged workman as he was waa careless dishonest and generally inefficient he however secured a position on trial in a mill about five miles from west mllton milton where he remained nearly two years or until he gathered with the saints in nauvoo in 1842 his new employer was very loth to part with him and tried his utmost to persuade him from following the fortunes of a deluded people but all to no purpose for brother wareham had embraced the J gospel with a full determination to follow whithersoever it might lead ad previous to leaving his home in ohio he had made arrangements with lyman wight the church agent for the purchase of a city lot in nauvoo on his arrival aff rival there he found employment in a brick yard by which he was waa enabled to build a small house bouse where he lived during the succeeding four years that the saints remained in nauvoo but they were years of privation and sorrow malarial diseases were prevalent and unwholesome and insufficient food greatly aggravated the sickness which caused desolation to so many homes brother wareham and his wife had only one child left a bright and beautiful little creature who seemed too fair for earth she died in may 1844 leaving her parents childless still having the promises of the gospel to comfort them they were not without hope for the future during his residence in nauvoo brother wareham faithfully performed his quota of labor on the temple and also earned means to support his family although entirely unaccustomed to outdoor labor time rolled on and the saints by untiring labor and the blessing of divine providence had bad made the city of nauvoo beautiful to look upon and desirable to inhabit and the covetous eyes of their enemies were being turned in that direction to accomplish their overthrow brother wareham was present at the meeting where president brigham young assumed the leadership of the church and has always alaways borne witness to his wonderful resemblance in face form and manner of speaking to the martyred marty red prophet which he regarded as a divine manifestation to the people as to the legal leadership of the church in the beginning of february 1846 brother Wax wareham cham accompanied by charles Shu shumway and others crossed the mississippi and located the camp at sugar creek the only facilities which the saints possessed for crossing the river consisted of two small flatboats flat boats capable of containing two wagons each they realized that it was an almost hopeless task but with a sub lintle faith they bl began mn their theirl latto abot and subsequent events show that they didiot trust in vain A fow few days later the weather turned suddenly cold and froze the father of waters tor to arsuffi a depth to permit heavily loaded wagons to cross with wety safety a thing before unheard of at this season of the tha year brother wareham continued with the traveling saints for six weeks in the capacity of a guard enduring all manner of exposure and privation he waa then released to return to nauvoo to make arrangements tot for the removal of his wife and child a little boy born to in the spring of 1845 he labored continuously tini during the summer to aadu emulate clothing and provisions fot for alir journey he took an active part irr in the battle of nauvoo which occurred in the fall of 1846 he assisted in tearing down a log barn in the vicinity of the temple and in building fortifications of the material the only artillery in possession of the saints were steamboat shafts from which they had im provided pro rude cannon one of these primitive guns was in charge of a methodist preacher who had lost ats fortune with the saints during this trying ordeal early in the battle the man whose duty it was to fire this gun by igniting the powder with a blazing brand had his head taken off by a cannon ball brother wareham War chanar having been detailed to assist him in its man argement took the dead gunners during the remainder of the contest and was the means of preventing the mob from making a flank movement through an adjacent cornfield which it if successful would have allowed them to enter the city squire wells in his bis capaz capacity ity as aide de camp discovered the menacing danger and directed the gunner to discharge his gun in that direction the piece was hastily charged with powder and itt at this critical moment bro bra War wareham ehtan discovered that the stock of wadding was totally exhausted being a man maji who coula think and act quickly in an emergency he took off his stockings and used them for that purpose rather than lots lose valuable time in going to bring a more sulta suitable ble article he also remarked to his assistant that if it were necessary to fire another shot he would take his shirt tor far the same purpose this I 1 emergency however did not arise as the previous shot was so well directed that the mob was compelled to evaa evac aate the cornfield and raise raide a blagof flag of truce which practically ended coatto ties later in the day brother wareham borrowed a team and conveyed the bodies of the gallant major An anderaon dorsan and his son who had fallen a a wort steart distance from his post of duty to their homes on the day after the battle the preliminaries of a treaty were begun which finaly finally resulted in an agreement that the homeless and plundered people should have sufficient time tima to brods the river with their families on condition that they deliver up their ehg which the governor promised should be returned to them when they were on the iowa aside of the river it Is needless to say that the promise was never kept and not a man ever received hla his gun again the subject of this sketch lost a new kentucky rifle his own personal property which in those days was conald cons ld ered a very efficient weapon toua olm to the breaking out of hostilities the state had furnished the nauvoo with two six and a quantity f of muskets but when a collision was likely to occur they were demanded and returned so that the arms the saints delivered up at the conclusion of the treaty consisting of a ewt motley collection of rifles aad shotguns were their own persona perso nir ra ert erty buti of at this fact bad no weight with a relentless mob backed by a perjured gover norand thus closed the last act in the bloody drama enacted in the state of illinois in which our people played so prominent a part then followed the weary march across the state of iowa with its attendant perils and sickness brother wareham established himself in western iowa for a season crossing the plains in 1863 1853 arriving at manti the same year where he resided till fea february 1864 when he removed to sevier county to assist in colonizing that thai region he made a home for himself and family in what is now known as glenwood where he was president and acting bishop the breaking out of the black hawk war in the spring of 1865 worked great hardship to the settlers of the sparsely settled town on the sevier river and after being repeatedly plundered of their stock and some of their number having been slain by their savage foes they were finally advised to abandon their homes brother returned to mantl mand in straitened circumstances from indian depredations and ana with his wife a confirmed invalid she died in 1867 and in the following yeat he married rebecca atwood who st still ill survives him 4 his love and reverence reverence for the mar byred prophet amounted almost to worship and it was his greatest pleasure to testify to his divine mission and relate incidents in his life with which he was personally acquainted his fiery zeal in proclaiming the principles piet of the gospel and his faithfulness to every trust reposed in him were household words among all with whom he was associated he was a patriarch of the sanpete stake of zion and also president of the high priests quorum at the time of his death he was an invalid for the last seventeen years of his life but the record of a long and useful life filled with good deeds and ana kindly ministration has preceded him and he to is held in grateful remembrance by two generations he performed two missions in the united states and crossed the plains five times once as captain of a wagon train in every capacity in which he acted it can be truly said of him he waa wa faithful to his trust his passing away was calm and peaceful as a little child going to sleep a fitting ending to his saintly life the funeral services were simple and impressive his counselors in the high priests quorum offered the open i ing and closing prayer consoling and interesting remarks were made by the presidency of the stake sie and bishop W F reid each reviewing the life and labors of the deceased and bearing testimony to his blameless career A long cortege of vehicles followed his remains to their last resting place his old friend and companion president J T JP X mcallister offered the dedicatory prayer at the grave he sleeps the sleep of the just juat and is awaiting a gl glorious orl resurrection A L C |