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Show r ,- . l' Good Citizen Gorie. Kf In the death of Henry Mc- t Connell, which occurred at his ij home in this city Sunday after- noon at between 4:00 and 5:00, !g5l p. m., Cedar City looses an in- I telligent, honorable and upright K citizen, and one of the well- Bj known landmarks. Death was jiM caused by pneumonia, sup- Mf plemented by old age and the : incident lack of vitality to com- bat the disease. The patient was ill only about a week, and H suffered but comparatively little. Hr All of the children of deceased H, were at his bedside when the B last change came, and he did not H want for tender and willing H hands to nurse and care for him. K' The funeral services were held H Jn the tabernacle Tuesday after-H after-H iioon at 2 o'clock. The speakers were John V. Adams, Wm. H. jCorry, John Parry, Rufus Allen land Alex G. Matheson. All bore Pll'testimony as to the good charac- n ter of the deceased and spoke I Words of comfort and consolation I to the bereaved family. I BIOGRAPHICAL. 1 Henfy McConnell, son of I Jehial and Nancy McConnell, was born in Posey county, ft t Indiana. From there the family 1- (moved to Iowa, where they m jned the Church of Latter-day H ts, and in the year 1849, B grated to Utah, At this time Bflti-fcMiM W88 1 tflsra .frf-acra ajifL wMWBBlBiMMiiiiyMteSBii m deceasad was the first city mar- MW r shal, and the family was promi- p nently identified with the early A history of that place, and during k the past year deceased has fur- .1 1 nished considerable information concerning the early settlement of that place, which is to be used in the preparation of a pioneer history of Lehi. Deceased first came to Cedar City in the fall of 1854, and spent rx the winter here, but returned the following spring to Lehi, and resided there until 1862, when he moved to Cedar City to live, and has resided here ever since. Prom Lehi he was called to go with a company to Salmon City, Idaho, to afford relief for the ( saints there against the Indians, t and to conduct them back to i, Utah. The expedition was ; fraught with 'considerable ad-I ad-I venture, but was successful, and the saints were returned to Utah I in safety. At Lehi, in 1858, he t was married to Eliza Williams, r and eight children resulted from the union, six of whom are still living. In Cedar City deceased has .served as city marshal, city .'councilman, etc. At one time he was prominently allied with the sheep industry in tin's county, and lost heavily from the depredations of Indians. With his frugal and industrious wife, he was the first to establish a dairy on the Cedar Mountains, and for a number of years the , products of their dairy stood pre-eminent on the local market Henry McConnell was of a quiet, retiring disposition, even-tempered, even-tempered, and made few, if any enemies. Yet, withal, he was firm and courageous in his support sup-port of right and justice. I He performed a creditable - work on earth, and has gone to a well-earned rest. The surviving children are, Mrs. Wm. F. Sawyer, William J., LaFayettc, Thomas F. and George B. McConnell, arid Mrs. Robert W. Bulloch. His faithful wife also survives him. There are also a number of grandchildren grandchild-ren and three great-grandchildren. To the bereaved famly The Record extends condolence. . s |