Show S 4 i OBITUARY S Through tile the arious arious scenes of oC life hIe one has many trials and troubles troubles' to bear But the one on which sinks deepest into the heart and affects the profoundest tranquility of the home and destroys the bond of fa family ily life is that much feared destroyer the angel of death though thought it t is something s we e must all meet sooner or r later we c regret very ery much to see the tle peace of of the family disturbed as it has been heen by byth the deaths death of oC Mrs Anna Anita Larson Thorpe Thorp wl which ich occurred at 12 m. m on Thursday the day of oCAr March Anna Larson Thorpe was born in in Mt Ml Pleasant on the tJ of April r. r her parents Jens Larson Lund arid and Anna AnnaMaria AnnaMaria AnnaMaria Maria Larson Lund having immigrated immigrate here fr m Denmark a short a-short rt time before On Ous the 2411 of July of the same year ear her ier parents parent retraced their their steps step across ss the weary and desolate plains with the historic list one ox teams They settled in Omaha and lived there for Cor several years afterwards moving out on Creek In in Washington county wh where here re they purchased purchased pur pur- chased a gor good d farm fain Here they lived livedis i in is l peace and happiness lor jor a number of years and it ws W here where Anna Ann spent th the greatest part pan of oC h her r life liCe helping her herpa pa parents gaits gain a On Ott the tuc farm arm she was an all exceedingly industrious girl As other girls grew rew up who co could d take her place in in family cares she went to work on her own account with a nice family in in Blair by Jh the na name e o of Posts During her s subsequent nt career as s a lab laboring ling girl she worked fur for several o of o othe othe the very best families and gave complete complete com corn satisfaction wherever where she went went Being in in contact with the better class ol of society and with those those who ivele were vere in in in- disposed she natu naturally rally c cameto came cameto me meto to take an inter interest st its in in education n. n In 1877 she 1877 she entered the Blair Elair High Highs School ool amongst amongst the best of similar institutions at the same time doing housework for Cor her board On Oo the ad of August iSSo sh she received her graduating certificate While in us school her was chat chai- by the same neatness and exactness ex ex- as usual and in in the outcome she stood first in her class She Sli taught in inthe inthe in inthe the district si o of Washington county for or several years very success success- fully ully trouble now came upon the family Mary her her next next y younger i oger sister who h had d closely followed the the footsteps of h her r older sister sister was taken seriously sick jc v while working v for Mrs Mr Pa rr in P Blair All AH med medical cal aid as A as called to her assistance assistance but to z no vail The doctors then advised her to io o go goV V West st forTier il lih in July 1882 in in comp company n wi with i Arna ml they arrived d in in Utah where Mary shortly afterward died of con consumption both however embracing eni em embracing bracing the Gospel before re she died diec They w were re re b baptized d in in Lehi by bv Elder Peterson Peterson and ana others others' Anna taught school in Lehi for a few e months but after her sister Mary was wa dead she went to h house work again She w worked in Salt Lake City and Evanston and finally came to Ephraim to visit visit her relatives and friends While here her lere sh she met and and became acquainted ac ac acquainted acquainted ac- ac with her subsequent husband nd nc Thomas L L and WT wa married in inthe inthe the L Logan gan Temple on the of oi November 1887 Her duties now v were vere ere of a different nature She started out out upon the most important phase of h her life ife After her marria marriage she and her er husband settled down in in Ephraim where they have lived together ever since since until Providence deemed it wise to call her hence Of late years she has no notel not el enjoyed joye the best of health but lived in l lopes of improving ving Her recent confinement confinement con con- no doubt was wa the immediate cause of her death notwithstanding the best est medical advice the city f a affords was waS waS' consulted S She leaves four children tle the oldest lc es eight years age and the youngest but six six days however dO doing lI nicely at presenta present present- a grief stricken husband and a host of or- or sympathizing l relatives s and 1 l ft lends behind be- be hind imd her 0 S S As a wife and a mother she exhibited the he same industrious and arid unflinching spirit spirit which h ch att her from Irons the the- thebe b be- be inning ginning Her I v ik was vas hard to ex excel ef and an was always a credit to lo to herself att and family amily Her gleate t ciHi was was waso to o make her home bOrne h happy and to to raise raise her lei children in in the fear of f God God and those hose who visited her in her humble home lome know that thai she never o once ce faltered faltered- in n attempting to carry ariy out hei ambition She follows s her falter lliter tt to tu the gra grave gra slit She was 34 34 years ji ix months months' and aid 12 12 days old stud rema remained ned a a faithful ait lt 1 saint saint fr from rum m the time she joined the chinch l ch The Jj ld I r rel wish vish to thank th the people for r the SY sympathy sym pathy th they have shown 11 wn and ind sd- sd for or the many m ny kin kindnesses nesses which hive have 1 been been bestowed be be- lol stowe stowed on those who have ha cause to to m mourn urn 5 |