Show 3 I h r I I v l MA MAYFIELD MAY Honored and Respected Veteran Veteran Vet Vet- eran and Pioneer at Rest Ole C. C Olsen first bishop o of Mayfield Dayfield closes an eventful career i in third eighty year Cause old age A Mayfield March 19 1906 Impressive funeral t er vices over I J the e re remains in of f Ole C. C Olsen Oisen who j 1 t last Thursday afternoon at I a 40 4 clock o'clock k were held at the meeting meetinghouse b house yesterday afternoon at 2 Christensen Chris Chris- v clock lock Bishop llop Hyrum i lAe te en n l presided Dec deceased Deceased sed second wife J Johannah rC C. C Olson Olsen died ie last January tb Bari just two months before r q Tier ier husbands husband's demise A large gathering was wad present r at s t the fn funeral ral and glowing tributes sere ere paid to the deceased by the following speakers Ex Ei bishop bishopP P Pal FaI ley ley- L L' P. P Jensen I C R E- Nielson E. E S. S Anderson on j- j It 0 F. F J. J 1 en jr ir arid and Hyrum Christ Christensen The Th elders related Ter in incidents and reminiscences 4 the life L. L of the thede deceased es d. d Eulo- Eulo o p I 1 ed d hia his ia W worthy t y career and character char char- I f acter and upright bt citizen kind polite and td considerate consider te husband Tee elders spoke poke of ot his nis bone honesty ty anti nd J integrity i rh as aa s bi bishop bop and as a aT a or T yub min the ibe hi high ll lles es eh- kle J in i h f ho be T was nas h held la B by byi i those i who knew him l j Serer it relatives l and friends i M 4 from other t towns towns' attended the tho fr r f uD funeral r I i T t beautiful ul white casket was i j trow- trow wl with flowers and anel anda a large larger I r eort go followed le e r remains in n nto to tos' tos s' s s iU its i last t resting estin place Da Deceased d w was the e father of j t p fi five of whom whom sur sur- surE c children E forty five y grand I even Yen ven of of c whom hom are are d dead ad four Ite I-Ite great eat t gr grand nd children all living livin 7 Ho was was the bus husband band of wives o one one l of whom su survives h him m Caroline Croli e Mathilda Olson our ourI I i worthy and respected pre president id nt of y the ho l local c I Relief Belief Society I i O Ole OleC eC C Olsen OUen wa was 11 born Feb 7 I 1823 on the island of Bornholm i While yet ye young he j f c learned tho the trade rde of a tailor R which avocation ion he he followed more wor or less all aU his life He joined the March 15 1852 1859 ot ordained a teacher the same BalDe year and called r to labor among the saints 8 in I Copenhagen en O Ordained a preist reit Jan 1 1863 ordained an all elder Ider tho 3 same game me year and filled a short hort mission on the islands of and Bornholm Pr Presided Aver the the Copenhagen conference branch from 1853 to 1857 1851 when f i ha ho emigrated to to Utah crossing Y 1 the plains with han handcarts carts He was one amon among the volunteers sent ou out to hold bold Echo canyon 1 r I army J Held several t itt r i f 0 r 41 I t f church offices office office- wherever he be r raided re resided resided re- re sided aided including the tho office of Seventy Resided successively in Salt SnIt Lake Ephr Ephraim lm Mt Alt Plea Pleasant nt Fairview GunnisOn and Mayfield Filled an honorable mission to Scandinavia 69 1867 l laboring borin as I traveling elder older and later as president president dent of the Stockholm conference I In the spring af of 1875 he came cameto cameto cameto to Mayfield amon among the early settlers sot set set set-I tiers and was wa Appointed president J 1 of oft the branch in June 1877 1871 was ordained bishop of the Mayfield Mayfiel ware wars He held the position of of bishop until 1890 90 when he resigned ned nedon on account of f old a age e. e He pa participated par par- in all the incidents an and experiences o of the early l settlers He tock took an active part in the Black Hawk war serving as cap eap captain I tain taro sustained heavy losses leases by bythe the be depredations of the Indians Indiana Losing quite a number of cattle caute Helped to organize the tho Co Coop op op store and was president of same for many r ye years r. r He has always alway been beena an active veolo man in loc local l affairs helping to o build Jd the forts at Mt Mi Pleasant Pleasant nt Ep Ephraim im a and d Gunnison o a and was s tb the tho first settler to put a plough in inthe tho ground round inthe in inho th ho the r South o th Mayfield settlement president n of the High Pr Quor Quorum m of Mayfield M ay field Was al ord or ordained or- or d Patriarch June S 1905 t He held heid the position of bishop of I iI H with cred credit t to himself and r io fo the wa ward and w eras was tiN l le e enterprising enterprising- t industrious r polite and ana J much ucb respected citizens ro ve a widow and 5 grown gron children to o mo mourn mourn rn their loss loss' |