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Show j!k. fretwell dead ; attracted PflefWHHiia Which Was Cause of His Demise. Was ill but Eight Days Refused .-. Medical Assistance Died a ' ' rv ,true Latter-day Saint. t Snndny nfternonn tbo pcoplo who were in attendance at the conference were stnrtled when leaving the taber-naclo taber-naclo to lonrn that John R. Fretwell had died. Very fow people even know tbBt ho bad been ill, and were unprepared for the etnrtlltiR uowb. Johu hud contracted n heavy cold bohio eight days bpforo his denth, and had taken all Blmplo romedieb naiinl in oneea of this kind, but tbo nold had fsstonod itself upon hla luugs und Duoumonia developed, Bro. Fretwell was not much of n believer in physicians and ropeatedly rofu8d to have ono in Httondanae. I Ilia brother Orson urged upon him tho necessity of calling ono in to see H( if ho could not bo of some assistance, bnt was alwayB put off with n flat re-fl re-fl fnsal. Sunday bfternoon at about 2 o'clook Orson called iu a phjsiolnn SB be saw his brother was nenring death's duor. having fallen into an I UBOoneoinus etate. Tbo physician upon arrival attempted to rovivo the patient, but it wan too late, ho died wblle the doctor wns trying to re- llovo him. fl John Fretwell baa beon practically an Invalid for 18 years, having ruf-fl ruf-fl fared extremely" from rheumHtism cohtrnoted while making brick in r this city. Ho, when n young trail. was ambitions and worked hard at 9 his trade, laying himself open to the Jflj ravages f rtieumnMam by exposing Bp- . btnuwlf in bis ondeovors to keep up fl with hla work. In making briok ho B was wont to mix tho nlny by getting B into it and would work Into and ear B ly, many times coming home ex- B bansted oftor n bard day's labor. Ho B - also would begin work rnthor early B in the spring, working till frost in B tbo fall, thus oxposing himself to tho B rigors of cold wpathr,anti naturally B hlB oonsMtutlon suffered, and he con- B tractod rhoumatlsui which niriicted B bim to tho tlmo of his death. B lJrn- Prntwoll vcPH n trno Lntlnrd.ey fl Saint, always attending his meetings B when he was at all h'oio to got out fl IIo would never miss any of his du- fl tlea If it woro possible for him to nt S tend to thorn. Ho hold the rpeneot H of all who were acquainted with him fl' nnd has flono to that shorn with n jfl full knowledge that thero is n jssf God, and that bo will ho rownrdod fl for all the suireiing ho has passed fl through. DIOGRAPHIOAL. fl John Raby Frotwoll, son of Wm. fl K. and Jnno Raby Fretwoll, wob born 9 AugnBt 58, 1852 nt Bromloy-by- I Bow, old England. Ills pnronto were fl Latter day 8alnts and be was born fl and raised a member of that organ I- fl zation. In tbo early part of his life fl be was a member of the Whlteobap- fl pie branoh of the cburob, and took fl an active port. I About the year 1802, with bis fa- I tber ond brother, be mnved to Groen- I lane, Oreoawloh. in Kent, England, fl and joined tbo Woolnge branch, lie fl remained n member of that branch fl until 1873 when in company with fl bis brother Orson, bo emmigrnted to I Utah, arriving in Salt Lako Oity Juno fl 20.1873. After remaining in Salt fl Lake Oity three days they set out for I Cedar Oity, arriving hero about one fl tconth afterwards. fl Very shortly after locating here ho fl wont into the briok business and fl worked at it up to tbo tlmo ho oon- fl ooatraotei rheumatism, some 18 yearn fl ago, when be was compelled to abnnd fl on It -fl Tie was faithful to the principles fl of tbo religion be believod in and fl was always a aonEoientions man in fl the performance of bis duties when- fl ever be waa able to do bo. ilo died fl an bo bad lived, a Arm beliover that fl God lives, and that man will reoeivo fl a just reward for all goodness done fl while bere in the flesh. He bore bis fl affliction with rwlpnptlon to the het fl and to mortal belief is entitled to a fl great glory in onr Father's kingdom. |
