| Show WITH ahl ir former resident of price river valley with numerous Nume roii relatives here passes at american fork june 15 joseph birch who was born in manchester eng august 13 1821 1 died at his home in his eighty afif fifth tit year and was aured from the tile second ward church at tit 10 on the father birch accepted tho the gocpt gospel 1 in march 18 1818 ta making his membership in ill the church over bev sev ent anti he ile left hia his native land und came to america april 2 1815 arri arrn ing in utah in september of the same year in tit time to take part in the hardships hardship i of the grasshopper war pre prevailing at thit t time me for borne time after entering the tile valley he lie worked as a manufacturer of household furniture and exchanged sano sane with his ills neighbors for provi provisions ions etc at the time of the occupation of camp rloyd by johnstonn Johnb tons army in 1858 be secured Pon contracts tracts to furnish the camp with hay and wood and soon became a faaoi davonte ite with vita many of the officers when the civil war ar brok broko out and the troops troop were called ea east eat t they offered to bell before they left everything they did not need except the ammunition and firearms which they dest destroyed royel among the many things they sold to joseph birch were horseshoes at one cent each bacon from one to five cents per pound harnesses fifty cents each picks and hatchets hatchet 8 alve cents each cacti and everything ise in the same rati ratio 1 band and from these branne eions birch made his start in a financial way he lie went into thy the merchandise business in provo city with wi tit a stock of goods worth in 1861 he was called with others on a mission to settle and help develop st george in washington lington county he ile sold out his interests in provo at a great bacri sacrifice bac five selling his five rive acres of land just east of the county court house in provo for fifteen dollars an acre he lie did considerable freighting from california with ox teams and suffered losses on more than one occasion by indian raids while en route in 1866 he moved to nephi and built a grist mill and he claimed to have made the first fine hower flower in utah ir hia mill at the mouth of salt creek his mill he had to protect bv build ing a stone wall around it so the could not enter in his history he also states that he brought from los angeles in 1866 the first oranges ever brought to salt lake city and sold them there for forty dollars per cae wholesale hole sale in 1870 he entered into partnership with Pren president dent brigham young and took charge of the cotton factory in washington county which he successfully ran for three years in march 1873 he waa was called on a mission which he he filled in england he ile is survived by a wife eleven cleven children and forty one grand and great grandchildren grand children |
