Show NOBLE DIES ear i 1 christena J stohl after suffering tor for a week wlter gastritis during which she experienced excruciating pain mrs christena J stohl passed peacefully peacefully into the other life monday evening shortly alter after six while her fatally family about her bedside hoping almost against hope that life might be spared to her for a season yet awhile on sunday morning mrs condition took a sudden hange for the worse and for a time it T appeared that she was vas going her h Irs band and children with their wives v ere at her bedside and they could se their mother slowly sinking but suddenly a change came and she revived ic ie her heart action was strong aal vigorous which accounted for her wonderful vitality and as she came out c ct the spell she spoke to er family bidding them not to look 0 o serious her suffering was antens however and medicines had to be administered to relieve the pain after thu thit she ap parent ly did not suffer any tiit lay in a sort of como not recognizing anyone or anything unless spoken ti ta distinct ly On monday it was arrn rent that the end was not tar far oft off and ana the family remained near her until the end canle came as the shades of evening began to I 1 fall aa she did not seek public and was very retiring in 1 T r nature but through her family shi wielded a divine and most marked ence for there is scarcely a family i this entire county that is and has ha een more prominent in the i of the commonwealth in a beligio as well as secular way vay her sons e men in whom the utmost confider conf idec is reposed by all who know then them ter her only daughter is a woman of st ig worth whose splendid character if elects the attributes of her noie no ie mr sr ar mated with such a man as ila ia larch 0 N stohl it is little wondmu that she should be the mother of suc sterling children she lived tor for ber family she lived in them and her love was rewarded by a devotion that was sublime whenever mother vas indisposed immediately came her h children from far and near to mintter to her comfort in all the public life of her children she has hai assisted thern with wise counsel and was most solicitous of their fidelity in the tha positions to w which hi ch they had been called christena johnson stohl was born in berlof near malmo sweden april 1842 when she was wag out but a child her mother accepted the gospel and was made mad to suffer great persecution the mother opened her home to the elders to hold bold cottage meetings there and for that offense lense of tor for tion raged in sweden sift at that time she was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment on bread and water for 16 days those familiar wit hsuch such a sentence la in theold the 6 old corid world can understand that the officials practically meant that grandmother johnson would not emerge from prison alive but she dial ald she refused to eat the bread and by drinking water kept life together despite the tact fact that she was incarcerated in a damp dar dark dungeon but the experience seriously impaired her health and left her nearly blind her little daughters the subject of this sketch and her two sisters awaited 1 their mother on the day she was to be liberated a short distance without the prison walls not knowing whether she would come to them alive or dead this trait abaft of being loyal to principle despite the opinions of others was possessed in a marked degree by the daughter she was baptized into the church of jesus christ of latter day saints on june ath 1855 by her husbands brother five years later in company with her mother and two sisters she departed from her native land to go to utah upon arrival at the point on the missouri river from whence the companes began their overland journey the family continued on p page n i g ese seven itne NOBLE WOMAN mm 1323 OR DIES continued from first page wind found itself like all the others without accommodations for transporting all the members so christena walked alongside the wagon the entire distance across the plains on april 16 1864 she was united in marriage to 0 N stohl and the bamily settled in salt lake city two years later they came to brigham city which has been their home ever since mrs stohl as stated did not seel seek public preferment but for some years she labored as a counselor in the fourth ward relief society she had a great heart and the cry of the distressed did not reach her ears in vain in her quiet way she did good to others whenever opportunity presented itself she was the mother of seven children only one of whom preceded her to the other world an infant daughter who aho died in 1879 the family surviving her are patriarch 0 N stohl her husband president oleen N stohl bishop lorenzo N X stohl now residing in salt lake city heber N stohl residing out in th the eDear Bear river valley joseph N stohl emma stohl of this city and david 0 stohl residing at malad idaho there are also 24 liv lif ang ng grandchildren and two deceased j mrs stohl was the kind of woman arho made the world infinitely better I 1 by her having lived in it those thosa who came within her influence testify of her sterling north and devotion to principles of righteousness she has left a heritage in a noble example that wil ri 1 endure throughout eternity the I 1 news joins with the many maby friends of the bereaved family in extending sincere condolences funeral services are being held this afternoon in a tte third ward chapel |