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Show AGED RESIDENT GONE Cathariia Winckstar WiUtker Died Wediesiiy Monriig. Was 8a Years of Age. March 3rd Lived Useful Life and Died True Latter-day Saint. 1 Wednesday morning- at about d o'clock the spirit of Sister Wlttaker took ita flight after havlBg-inbablted the tabornaole of fleiu for 82 years. She was au old land mark In. this city and was well thought of by all I with whom she became acquainted.. For reveral years past she has made ber home with John Ohattorley and H family, who have been most kind and H attentive to her. As she advanced in H years she heoame more feeble and at HT ' the time of her death had to be wait H ed on almost constantly.- She was H ever grateful to Brother' Obatterley H and family for the many aota of klnd-H klnd-H neBB bestdwed upon her. H She was a staunoh Latter-day-Saint, H having embraoed the gospel in her B native land and againBt- tbo wlsbea of H ber father, who was very much dls- 1 pleased at her for having' juinod the M obnoxious Mormons. But notwith- 1 standing all tbo bitteruess engendered M by ber act she remained true to her H convictions till death. M Funeral aervioea wero held ot tbo B tabernaole yesterday aftouoon at B wbiob tbero waa a good attondnnco B and tho speakers referred to her many B good qualities and steadfastness to fl the truth. H The following biography of hep lifo B waa furnished by John Ohattorley and B will bo found very Interesting, by nil B who were acquainted with Sister H Wblttukor: H Mrs. Outbarina Winchester Whit- B taker, daughter of Daniel and Mury B Ann Smith Winchester; waa born in , r Bristol, England. Marob 3, 1821. j. mother died shortly after Bbe was fl born, so that she never bad a moth B er'o loving oaro. When old enough B sho attendod a boarding school for B four yoars, aftor which she kept house B for ber father. Hearing of the "Mor- B moua" from a neighbor; boo wont to B hear them and soon after was baptized B nnd by so doing drew her father's B displea?uro upon her so thnt ho baro- B ly gnvo hor Rulfloiont to keep houso jB with, requiring her to'iroop nsoouut B of tho most trifling Items in her B housekeeping. Having nn anxious B, deairo to join her co religionists in B Utah, sho desired to got means to em H migrate, uud spoko to her father B about it. Ho told her that she would H not get u penny from him. She sold fl hor best clothes, wbiob were very jfl good as her father was superintendent jl of a large foundry and maohine shop, B and was very indulgent to her. She B then opened a day Babonhfor children B and a night sobool for young women, B which kept ud until 9 in the evening. M And very often after that time of M night Bbe washed for the missionaries B from Utah and dried the clothes Id H her bedroom, as her father would not H allow ber to have the elders at the jHj house or have anything to do with fl them, so far as be oould prevent ber. B She often washed the Mora cm mis. H aionarles olotbea until 1 and 2 fl o'clock in the morning aad she has 1 often stated to the writer that she fl sever onoe took cold from washing or ffl having the wet clothes hanging in hor M bed room. Bros. J. D. T. MoAllls Hf ter, Jesse B. Martin, Henry Laut and H others wero recipients of herkindnesa II in that way. II She emigrated in tho spring of 1857 II and started from Iowa City in Jesae IB B. Martin's company, nulling a band II cart from there Into Salt Lake City, IB where she met Father Whittakor and fl was married to him by President S Brlgbatn Young. Attor marriage she S came to Oedar and bun reBlded here H ever Blnco. Sbo was a faithful, true jH Latter-day Saint tn the end. |