Show Services For Eliza Sawyer afternoon In the First ud Tabernacle acle funeral e services were Ann Sawyer Sawyer wife of f M a 14 for oy Ella Eliza Ellam from this thise who passed I n. n j g Sawyer e Sunday after liter an Illness of several gothi nu duration ne tabernacle was filled with rela rela- and acquaintances who whoa 10 Id friends Wends a d assembled to pay their last trib- trib tribe to a noble mother and e t c of at respect 1 Va Ue Herbert P. P Haight t the the choir opening song by ted led The followed by byMer Is Abide With Me Mer Samuel T. T Leigh offering prayer Annette and Mrs lira MB islet Prie Urle sang Adieu tin Loves Love's Last reeling by Schubert f following which tier ides Andrew Corry a friend of long longan an WI standing spoke saying In part I lit Jit he be was reminded of the olden rys aya of pioneering of this country here at atit ten hen one of those who came lit it time passed a away way The pioneers nd nil their children gathered from the into LIllis of f the earth to come here to toa tobe tos a be s valleys of the mountains to live Uve heir religion and Sister r Sawyer was M De of those children and had lived m e all aU her life since The speaker old Id of the trials and tribulations of he tot lint settlers and said that very few of those early comers were alive aUve Dby He Re wondered how many of the wager nger people realized the sacrifices hit their parents had undergone fo for forbe be gospels gospel's sake and the settling of hit bud and The father of Sister Sawyer nay McConnell CCOnnell was faithful to the theand and his daughter whose body a ow lies in Its casket followed in his and had been a devout He referred to the passing I his old friends one friends one by one they 31 gone cone as Sister Slater Sawyer had and felt lonesome and missed their Speaker said that Sister Bister Myer Oyer was a good upright woman ad he admired her very much for the life she had lived Continued on Page S 5 FUNERAL SERVICES FOg FOt ELIZA SAWYER Continued from Page Pace 1 Elder EIder Samuel F. F Leigh Lelih next spoke and stated that he be had always been a friend to the Sawyer family and they had bad always been friends friend to him he be admired them very much and he especially admired Sister Sawyer When a boy he be had gone to the Sawyer home f frequently and she ahe had always made him feel at home bome and in fact tact going to her ber place was like Uke going home to him The seeds of friendship sown then were ere still sun growing and nourish flourish ing Sister Sawyer was IS a home t woman a hard worker and good rood bousek housekeeper per and took much pride in her work ork The IM speaker at this point spoke of the vicissitudes that the pioneers p passed through In early days of the country and said that the parents of Sister Sawyer had bad suffered with others and Eliza Ellla Ann as a child chUd and young girl had bad had her share The speaker told of the activities of the father and grandfather of or the deceased In the early days when trouble was as had with the Indians The They liked an and trusted her father who was IS ideal pioneer stock loyal upright and devout and she was a product of that stock and Inherited the loyalty and end devotion to the principles of the gospel that had been her ber fathers Elder EIder Myron D. D Higbee then spoke a short time and said he felt it an honor to have bave the privilege of speaking speak speak- ing at the funeral of ot one of his cherished cherished cher cher- friends He Ite was as very well ac acquainted acquainted acquainted ac- ac with Sister Sawyer and had come to love her for her excellent qualities qualities qualities as a woman She was a noble woman He life book was now closed and she will be judged from that book and as her life Ute had been noble and honorable she was was entitled and would get a great reward in heaven He Ite be believed believed be- be that those who pass away meet with those of or their loved ones gone before and rejoice in hi their associations Bp E. E M. M Corry then sang that beautiful hymn My Faith in Thee following which Mrs E. E C. C Watson read some very beautiful sentiments on the life of Sister Sawyer which she had composed Bp Walter K Granger Grenger was the concluding concluding con con- speaker and said said-in d In p part that at he be had been a friend and and neighbor of the departed Sister for years No more loyal true true and and sympathetic woman ever lived I honored Sister Bister Sawyer She was a goo good goodfriend friend and one could always count counton on on her ler being true She was a charitable ble woman a family woman just as s true to her family asa as asa asa a woman could be For Tor her children and grandchildren she would have bave gone gotre Into the jaws of death at any time She was a noble mother The closing song sang by the choir was We shall Meet Beyond the River and benediction was pronounced by Elder EIder Wm V V. Walker Biographical Eliza Film A A. McConnell Sawyer was born Feb o. o 1859 at L LeW hl Utah the eldest child of Henry U. U and Eliza W W. McConnell McConnell McConnell Mc Mc- Connell early pioneers to this state When she was four years yean of age she moved with Ith her parents to Cedar City coming by Ox team They settled in what is now the fhe town prO proper er where she grew up Pup enduring the hardships of pioneering and assisting in rearIng rearing rear rear- ing tog her ber mothers mother's growing family In 1871 her ber family moved onto the Cedar mountain and she and her mother were the first white women to go into In Into Into in- in to the mountains where they began to dairy It was here she later met mether mether her ber husband and after her marriage she continued to go onto the mountain to manage her own dairy dalry She married William F. F Sawyer in 1876 and to them were born seven children four of or whom with her husband husband hus bus band survive her ber They are Wm H. H Sawyer Florence S B. B Arthur Lola Tola S. S Watson and Fremont Sawyer Five grandchildren survive her and the following brothers and sisters Wm Wm- Lafayette and Frank McConnell and Mrs R. R W. W Bulloch Mrs Sawyer was always a home woman devoting her attention to her ber family She and her husband maintained main main- maintained their home at the same location for the three fifty years of their married mar mar- sled ried life and she has gone One to the mountain practically every consecutive summer for seven fifty years The last summer in spite of ill III health she was wasat wasat wasat at her old post the last of a large group of women who formerly spent pent each summer In that region She has hu been in poor health for several months which terminated In to death January 18 1929 |