Show BISHOP ATSON V VI DEAD Pioneer Who C Came me to Utah in 1880 Passes Away After Arter an Illness of more than twelve 0 years cars James Tames C. C Catson Watson atson a patriarch of or tho the Church of oC Latter Day Saints and one of the most wl widely el known business men of ot Salt Lake City CIL succumbed sue sue- I to diabetes at 1030 o'clock yesterday morning at nt his residence 5 S South Fourth West street In tIme the second fifty fit second year ar of or his ago age Up to a n aate late hate hour last night the arrangements for the tho funeral services which will ivill be beheld held In th the Sixth ward meeting house hall had not been heen completed De Despite tho the fact that ho had been In n ill health for or so mall many years cars the news of his death was entirely une and anti was a great shock to his relatives cs an and friends The Tho disease which caused Mr 11 Watsons Watson's death as- as f cM J i 5 l. l i C. C nt on umed an oS' oS aggravated form tonn early last September and from that time to the en end nd he confined to his home his condition growing gra gradually worse The deceased was connected with the he bishopric of the Sixth ward for more th than n twenty five years years' and for el eighteen years ears of or that period he lie officiated of of- as bishop of the ward On account of his physical condition he lie relinquished the office last March bein bong be- be in Inq ng succeeded ed by A A. G G. Giauque an and andias was vas ordained a patriarch of the Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon church In the commer commercial l it world the deceased was I Identified for tor torman man many years ears with the express s nil transfer business s In which he won Avon success font Born in iii Scotland Bishop Watson atson was born in Scotland Scotland Scot- Scot land and September 4 18 14 and at the ago of or six accompanied his parents to ho tho United States an and to Utah He lie made th tho trip by s sailing vessel essel from Crom Liverpool to New Orleans then thence co up the he Mississippi river to St. St Louis where tho the company compan remained during the he winter of IS C 5 ID-GO ID O on account othe orthe ot or tIme the he cholera epidemic which mado made it Impossible to continue continuo tho the journey up the he Missouri U river to Council Bluffs Iowa owa until the next spring From the Iowa lown town the company made its way across the plains b by ox teams arriving arrI ing ng here In the fall taU of ot 1850 Bishop Watson Vatson resided in the Sixth ward from the time of his arrival in Salt Lake until his death |