| Show BIOGRAPHICAL L 1 I SKETCH H toy 10 Following Is Ja a t brief biographical sketch of oC the life of Sister Joanna Reese leese Palmer raimer who passed from this life ife last week one of natures nature's most noble oble women for whom score of peole people peo peo- pie le of Southern Utah held deep love Joanna Reese Palmer was born in Pontypool South Wales Willes August G 6 1842 18 She with her entire famil family joined the Mormon Chuich ChUlch while hile still stilt in n Wales Willes and in 1863 at the age of twenty one she emigrated to America Ameri a. a The he ocean trip on a n slow sailing salling vessel vea- vea sel cl consumed I seven even weeks and on the trip lip across the American continent to o Utah the young girl saw the land east ast of the Mississippi ravaged ravage by bythe bythe the he Civil War Wald and to the west she saw aw a n thousand mile bison dotted Indian infested wilderness o over or r which she he she tramped most of the way afoot On her a arrival al in Salt Lake City she he was Vas married marrit 1 to Richard Palmer whom horn she had met while he was on a mission to Wales and they took their I honeymoon trip to Cedar Odar C dar City Cit in Southern Utah where the rest of oC their life ife was spent silent The deceased though rail frail of bod body was a of great I. I energy ne and by b tireless work and a natural aptitude for handicraft she mastered the arts of pioneering and made a comfortable home for or her I family amily in the wilderness I |
