| Show DEATH OF JESSE W FOX jesse W fox one of the Terri torys pioneer citizens passed peacefully from mortality at bountiful sunday morning april lot at while on a brief visit to that hat place elder fox was 76 75 years of age on saturday last and in the afternoon of that day he be went to bountiful and was at the house of his wife sarah elizabeth FOB and their daughter charlotte J foz fox they did all in their power to relieve him ot oi nis his sufferings and realizing that he was to in a very dangerous condition slater sister fox obtained his consent to send for his daughter mrs georgiana and her husband hyrum IS 8 young and his bis son jesse W fox jr who arrived in time tor for him to recognize and talk with them each he passed away as if going to sleep giving his son a farewell clasp clamp of the hand as u nis is spirit took its departure his illness was very brief and the immediate cause of death was neuralgia of the heart his body was brought to salt lake sunday jesse williams fox son of samuel and lucy williams vox fox was born on march slat 1819 near adams centre jefferson county now york he was a tenth child of a family of ten sons sud and three daughters he had an academic education and taught school in jefferson county new york and at other places he was the companion of james keep in their boyhood the latter being bound out was oppressed when young foxa fox a sympathies led him to aid him to go to canada which was the stepping stone to the reL renowned owned keep keeli a financial power he embraced the gospel early in the forties and reached nauvoo alli nois dole only in urne time to pee fee the remains of the be martyred marty red prophet and patriarch joseph and hyrum smith they having previously closed their eyes in death from this time on he be followed his bis favorite occupation school teaching W ith basco his co of the church he left nauvoo aud and came to winter there until the of 1847 when be was sent by president young to his bis old home in new york on a mission in hope that the change of climate awl and scenes would recruit his health it is not to be wondered that brother foes foxs health had bad failed when we realize the scenes of want and suffering through which the people of the church passed from the hour of the martyrdom to the spring of 47 when we realize the strong sympathies of brother fox the facts are although possessed ol of ample means for his own comfort and support tie lie shared with the afflicted people every thing he possessed and would have died aled bad not the lord prompted hin him servant to send him on a mission to new york As it was wan he did a good work and baptized a number of his kindred and other prominent imminent people into in the spring of 1849 he again joined the saints journeying journey irig westward at council bluffs where on the and 2nd of june of that year be was married to eliza J gibbs by the late apostle GOO geo A smith he was organized in the company of captain gully gillys Is hundred and william miller millers a fifty when the train reached the loup fork they were attacked by the terrible scourge of cholera which followed in the wake of the call fornis fornia gold seekers see kere many of whom died on the boats on the missouri river and on the plain A number of the saints became victims of the scourge among the rest captain gully and were burled buried on the east side of the river the company was delayed several days at this point on account of high water and was only delivered from their peril by the hand of a kind providence they had no do means of ferrying while the dread disease was decimating their accordingly gave themselves to tast tasting iniz aud and prayer when to use brother boiss foxs own language the power of god was as manifest in their deliverance as was wars that wherein ancient israel was led with safety through their perils in the red sea for a roadway was thrown brown up during the night formed of the shifting sands which gave them safe passage on their way it was remarkable how the be cholera was stayed in its ravages in answer to their prayers on reaching the valley brother fox aided in the surveys of the city and kur rounding settlements and located for one year at mantl mant sanpete county where he taught school returning to this city he resumed his occupation of surveyor and it was be who surveyed the site and set the stakes for the salt lake temple as well as for other afterwards built he enrolled in militia and became captain of a company of infantry minute MOD men being promoted 0 obtained 6 several commissions the last being a position on the staff of the late lieutenant general D H wells he was elected by the legislative assembly territorial surveyor surveyor survey of general of utah which office he held for many years until it was discontinued and be distributed the papers to the several counties he located and surveyed the principal canals ot this county and territory and was appointed chief engineer of the utah central and southern railroads he has been an active member in the church and of late laie yeara filled the station of high councilor of the salt lake stake and possessed posse sed the love iove of his bis acquaintances the unfortunate who knew him always found sympathy and the distressed obtained relief jr it it was in his power to relieve them among those hose whom he be taught in inthe school room he was looked upon with the most sincere affection As an illustration the terrible black hawk chief who made war upon our settlements in the southeast part of our territory in the sixties brother fox in his travels had bad occasion to pus pass through his camp and was zed by the chief who had been a pupil of his when a lad ad in manti instead of destroying him as tie be was in sue me habit of killing every white man that ventured within his bis lines he ordered that his old teacher be riot not only permitted to continue his journey unharmed harmed but gave him escort to a point of safety in the death of elder jesse williams fox our people have sustained a serious low anu the poor and the afflicted of our community or of any other class will feel the loss joss in his absence as keenly bable as his nearest kindred he is 18 to be congratulated upon his hia release from a life of continued toil amid scewel of want and suffering be having been accustomed to searching search inQ out and relieving the needy and afflicted in that he has now been permitted to enter into the paradise of god and rejoin his hia loved wife eliza and their children and friends who have gone before assured if any one is ia to be favored on oa account of a well wells spent life be will be one that will partake of cods eternal favor |
