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Show , ANOTHER PIONKIiR AT HEST. , I John Al. HIsbee Succumbso the ffi W Inevitable, , tfT 'jftS Last Sunday night John M. Hig- 1 M, beo, ono of our woll known pionoor 1 fB( oltizons, Ilnishod his earthly mission 1 f-1 and passed on to .tho great boyoud. I ll Mr. Higboo has been ill for noarly I 1 1 n year, and for tho last two or throo 1 1 months his fnmily haB noticed thnt ,1 "jf ulthough ho would not givo up and lio iu bed, ho evidently wus growing ffl - inuoh weaker and moro omnoiated. ffi ; Ho did not seem to suffer much pniu 1 and seldom mndo any complaiut. Al- 0 though Bright's discaso may havo had 1 something to do with his doath, it is 1 ? moro to a worn out body than to any I specifio discaso that his domi6o is to I bo attributed. 1 m John M. Iligbco was born May G, 1827, in Olcnrmont county, Ohio, B l and in 1835 movod with his paronts qL -W to Kirtlnud, whoro ho was baptized ft 8 Into tho Church of Jesus Christ of II Latter-day Saints, shortly uftor ho 'Hi was oight yoars old. Ho wnB with B V tho ohurch during tho persecutions I iu Missouri und Illinois, aud lost his I motlior through tho hardships in- I oldoiit thoro to. I In November, 1817, lio enmo with r-!'- ' his fathor to Utuh, and uftor rosid- t ing iu tlio territory about u year and ( a half, ho wont to California with ! Charles 0. Rich and Amnsa Lyimin, returning with thorn in 1850, In October, 1803, ho inurriod and immodiutoly nftor camd' to livo iu Cedur Oity, wliioh had boon sottlod about two yoars. Slnco living in Oodur ho has hold many positions of honor and trust, having boon mayor twico, city councilor u numbor of torms, besidos holding minor positions. posi-tions. Whon tho Cedur Co-op. was organized ho was choson puperin-tondont, puperin-tondont, nnd was successful iu its manngomont. Lator, whon tlio united ordor wob instituted, ho was its president. Ho leaves a largo family, all of whom tiro moil and woman, nud nro good, honornblo members of socloty. Tlio funoral sorvlcos woro hold iu . ' ST tho tabornaolo lust Tuesday at 2 ji. m., and woro nttondod by n largo I concourso of rolutlvos tuln frlonds. flf Tho spenkors, who woro old frlonds H and nssoointOB, nil boro lobtlmony to m his many good traits of charactor. M |