Show V OBITUARY AND M 17 CUNNIN cunninghan anan GUAN who died in this city at 4 am on the 2nd and dinst was born the of oct 1816 near clarksburg Clarks burg harrlson harrison co va he gathered with the saints to missouri missour in 1838 and was baptized into the church after his arrival in mo ifo by elder winchester he shared the persecutions of orthe the saints in that state afterwards moved with them to nauvoo ill ili where he remained until the spring when he be started west and arrived in this val lewyln the fall nali of 1848 in 1853 he was called tobe to be the acting bishop of the ward which position refilled he filled for two years when he was called to take a mission to texas upon his arrival at st louis elder john tyler appointed him to labor in the western states and assist in the emigration in the spring of 1855 he took a company and located what was anter after afterward warU known as the town of genoa on the loup fork miles west of the missouri river he labored in the neighborhood of genoa and florence until the summer of 1857 1837 when he returned to the valley and was appointed to take a company and found a settlement on snake river north As a military man he acted as captain and afterwards ter wards as maor major having raised the battalion known as the ad life guards he also aiso for four years acted as a city councilor for this thia city two years ago bishop was kicked by a mule A swelling afterwards commenced on the back of his neck which gave him great inconvenience ten days before his death a seton beton was war inserted in the swelling it discharged very freely at first but it afterwards closed up this was supposed to be the cause of his death he was aman a man oran of an iron constitution the night he died he remarked to the brethren assembled 1 I have been thirty years in the church and during that period havo haye never te quiren the he elders to lay hands op ola me until now dow 11 tr 11 |