Show BELINDA PRATT MUSSER slater sister belinda pratt musser whose sudden demise to ia chronicled elsewhere in this issue was no ordinary woman she possessed oot domestic and executive traits of no commod character kind had she become a student of medicine and surgery as nature and inclination had bad partially fitted her without doubt she would have reached an enviable position in the profession for she was wag brainy and bright her mother who survives her had bad five children whom she was forced to rear and educate almost alone because or of the perpetual perpetu ul absence of mrs MM mus mue sers d lather father abos public duties kept him from home in the missionary pioneering and colonza lonza oe tion fieldes bolit constantly coustant ly evirs mustier was an intellectual woman of stateny build noble mien and ut of queenly bearing accomplished accomplish td exemplary em plary full of baith and nd good deade always a helpful vangel evangel to we the needy of all faiths whom she would ever delight tu to encourage and succor it was she who first suggested and successfully in augu rated ithe the pratt family reunions in memory and honor of her illustrious lather father who in 1857 sealed his testimony with his bis blood her palsied mother who has baa fur for years hungered fur for release from her sufferings was her great solicitude during all her weary waiting her daughter belinda TBS the affectionate angel that hovered about her ever ready to wait on her hand band and foot sister musser was the mother of ten children seven of whom survive her those old enough to fully sense their irreparable loss are prostrate with grief over ht tur r sudden and unexpected exit from this aiuto a higher and boll r sphere to await the dawn of the glorious morn As side a devoted wife mother and consistent latter lay saint she had few it if any luper lors and in neighborly qualities she strove tu lu excel in extending and reciprocating favors 8 e was born in a cabin on the east side ot of the old fort may fth 1848 making her bar a pioneer babe oue one ot of the first chugren cb idren boru born in utah at the ibe time of her death she wits was 46 45 years 7 mon mohns titis and 2 days old thousands upon thousands of dear r latifes datives and friends when they learn ot of her death will join in the exclaim well done goud good and faithful hand handmaiden maidens peace be to thy ashes 29 2 9 |