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Show MRS. D. H. LEONARD DIED LAST THURSDAY Mrs. Elizabeth Leonard, wife of D. H. Leonard and an old Utah pioneer, died at her home in Huntington, May 4th. For almost a year she has been ailing and everything possible has been done to relieve her, but to no avail. Sometimes she would feel temporarily better but her condition was such that the physician gave her no hope of recovery. re-covery. Some physicians attributed her condition to the enlargement of the spleen, some said it was a disease of the blood and still others help that it was a growth in the stomach. Until the last month or two she had not suffered much, pain but gradually grew weaker and thinner and at last had to be lifted from the bed to the chair and from the chair back to the bed. One thing remarkable about this noble woman was that no matter how she felt she would always say "I am a little better," and up until the last she would plan with her daughters what they would do as soon as she recovered. No one could possibly have been more patient in her long suffering. Her children, numbering ten living, are all located in Huntington save one, Mrs. Caroline Robbins of Salt Lake, and every child called on her from one to three times a day until the last. Her daughter, Mrs. Emma Clark, lived with her the last few months, and Tuesday evening gave birth to a baby girl. This of course was a source of great worry to her mother, i'he kept up until it was all over and as soon as she saw that all was well she sank gradually into the eternal sleep with with her children all about her. Mrs. Leonard is of Welsh desent and emigrated with her parents to America in the early days of 70's, settling in Rush valley, Utah. It was there that she met her husband D. H. Leonard. Her children, all but the two younger onps Alvin and Myron, were born there. D. H. Leonard was called to help settle Dixie and moved his family there. Later he moved to Emery county and cook up a farm and run sheep on Huntington Hunt-ington creek. Here the family, in pioneer pio-neer fashion, lived in a dugout. After Huntington townsite had been laid out .ind the Leonard family had helped to build two homes in the present town--site they moved to what was then Known as Dry Fork in Ashley Valley, ind frO:n there to Deep Creek, Ashley. After a few years ' they returned to Huntington and built two more new lomes and pUnted some excellent rchards. Later they moved to Idaho ind then returned to spend the remain-ler remain-ler of their days in Huntington. Through all of these trials an 1 travels vlrs. Leonard went without a murmur jroving herself a loyal wife and one of he best mothers in the world. Another of her excellent qualities was hat she never spoke an ill word of a "rierid or neighbor. She was no hand to -. virt the friendship of anyone, but she dways had a good word for everyone, ihe was always on hand to assist in iny kind of ecclesiastical work and l:e-ightel l:e-ightel in doing gool. The world n ;ed3 n re of such women ani her m;nrnry vill be blessed by her friends and eighty hildren and grand-children until the latest day. Her mother is still alive and hearty and is now living in St. John's Rush Valley. Mrs. Leonard's funeral will be held at Huntington tomorrow (Sunday.) Her sisters Agnes and Maggie Russel of St.John's Rush Valley are here, but the journey was too long for their mother to undertake at her age. An account of the funeral will be given I next week. |
