Show 40 OBITUARY I 1 ac iri mcguirk another veteran has gone to rest death lias has again entered our pre and taken to himself our esteemed brot brother ber william wells mcguire who tie de barted parted this lite lire thursday night dec ath at anve ve minutes past eleven oclo cir deceased was the sou son of thomas and catherine mcguire and was born in chester county penn june 1809 in liin hit boyhood lie he injured his knee from aiom the ef facts of which aich lie ho has been lame the whole of his life in the year ISM lie he heard the P prophet ra het joseph smith preach at abe house 0 of me the late edward dward fc liu hunter thought he be had previously been ake words I 1 in hr his views of religion lie he received alfe words of inspiration as they flowed from the mouth of one sent by the deity and was shortly afterward baptized by klisha elisha ff davis lie removed to to illinois in 1842 and went through all the scenes the sa ants passed th ough in th ahac state dame debt with t the he dechurch church in 4 the exodus of isa had prior to that been ordained a member of the quorum of cv c endios in the autumn of 1844 and belonge 1 to the fourteenth quorum in he acme to utah where lie has since resided locating first at little cottonwood and J shortly after the settling of plain city cit moved to that place he had an excellent education and spent nearly one half of his hl life ten touching benching ching school lie waa for many years justice of the peace pence and also postmaster at flain elain City he had a most exemplary character i and was tand just in lite bis dealin dealings dea lingk gb with his fellow men observed every duty asa as a member of the church and never failed faded to bear beai witness to the truth of the mission of jaeth t ninth mith in brother mcguire we have lost an excellent neighbors neigh bora boi a worthy citizen and a true saint lie he leaves two daughters one the much afflic afflicted tea mrs mis Ua cathenne therine knight and a number of grandchildren grande and great gran grandchildren and ter very many frie lids who mourn not his but their lobi oai his remains were consigned to the grave on saturday the fifth the funeral was attended by a very large concourse of df 4 people both of his bis co religionists and ol 01 of r others w who bogli all man has gone peace to his dust 6 b plain ity dec lath 1887 |