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Show LAST HUB IS-1 RICHARD PALMER Familiar Lantl Mark and Enrl. Settler Goes to His Just Eternal Reward. BEAUTIFUL SERVICES AT THE TABERNACLE Was a Man Universally Respected and Will be Greatly Missed From The Local Community. Last Sunday afternoon in the Cedar City tabernacle, commencing at 3 p. in., funeral services were held over tho remains of Richard Palmer, one of Urn early settlers and a respected citizen of this place, who departed this life Saturday morning, Sept. lGth, ot 7 o'clock, at the ripe old age of 88 years, fitfti &iSSl-v!i "ie isV m n "s?1HwbiBSi!(P . liSS9RHH!l't'' c?riil ?jkBHBei??t w?9nS9Hr' M J. "itf&bii -irrSB Ry m ?NHHwC?lY?PYruBHHfiu' t.llB KH. SfT i I BH k rv39Rfpi'''"5sMSi? vsiMBv . ?ifHHHa Tho casket was heavily laden with beautiful flowers, and the services partook more of the nature of n farewell fare-well love feast than of a funeral. All members of the Stake Presidency Presiden-cy were present upon the stand. The speakers recited many of the incidents of the life of the departed, and all bore sincere testimony to the worthy and cxamplary life which ho led. Those heard from on the occasion occa-sion were, Elders David Bulloch, John V. Adams, Morgan Richards of Paro-wan, Paro-wan, Dr. G. W. Middleton of Salt Lake City, Henry Leigh and Bishop A. G. Matheson. By special request the song, "This World is Full of Beauty," was rendered rend-ered by Gomer Cosslett. The choir was present and rendered appropriate hymns. A long line of automobiles and other oth-er vehicles followed the hearse to the cemetery, where interment was mude. Tho grave was dedicated by President Wm. II. Lyman of Parowan. BIOGRAPHICAL. Richard Palmer was born in Aber-dare, Aber-dare, ' Wales, March 20, 1828. At the age of ten he began working in a machine ma-chine shop, and from then until his young manhood was engaged in black-smithing, black-smithing, engineering and working among metals. Ho first heard of Mormonism at the age of fifteen, and five years later cm-braced cm-braced tho faith, becoming an activo officer and member in the Welsh mission. mis-sion. In 1851 he came to America, and after working in St. Louis and vicinity for about a year, joined tho A. O. Smoot company of Latter-day Saint emigrants and started across the plains in May, 1852. The trip proved to bo a very hard one, as Salt Lake Valley was not reached until September nnd tho subject of our sketch, though ill with chills and fever, fe-ver, had to walk nearly all tho way. After arriving at Salt Lake, ho took up his trade of blacksmlthing and worked at it until tho "grasshopper year" of 1855, when the promise of n more plentiful supply of food stuff lured him to journey southward to the new settlement of Cedar City, or what is now known as the Old Fort. Hero ho again took up his trado among the early, struggling pioneers, nnd endured en-dured all the hardships of tho arduous ardu-ous pioneering days of the section in which he has since lived. , In 18G0 he went on a mission to I Great Britain, where ho held the po-i po-i s'ition of president of the Monmouthshire Monmouth-shire conference, and where ho met his wife, Johanna Roes Palmer. Survived by six children, four sons and two daughters, nnd by his wife, whoso untiring devotion nnd tendor ' cure of her oged husband was instrumental instru-mental in prolonging his lifo to tho ripe ago ho attained. Richard was the only member of tho Palmer family to join tho Mormon Church and migrato to Amorlea. Ho - , ..- ... ,. . was tho eldest of a family of six, all of whom he survived by many years. Ho died of old age and general de- I bilitv. Ills last sickness was marked I by the exceptional patience nnd cheer- i fulness that characterized his wholo life, nnd particularly his recent years, during which timo he was deprived of his eyesight. Ho was possessed of a most remnrk-nble remnrk-nble memory, nnd up to tho Inst hours of his illness, his intellect was ns clear and nctivo as that of a young man in health. Confronted by tho Inst groat change, ready for, tho final step from this stage of action, nnd fully cogniz-nnt cogniz-nnt of tho fact that ho had only n few days more to live, ho was just as keen for the important news of the world nnd the locnl hnppenings as at any period of his life. Nor was ho oblivious obliv-ious or unmindful of his most trivinl obligations, nnd insisted upon his affairs af-fairs being kept right up to tho minute. min-ute. Like n leaf which had grown, not sear and yellow, on the stem, but ns white ns the driven Bnow, ho finally let go his earthly support and dropped into the waiting lap of Mother earth, surrounded by relatives and friends who had gone before, and whom he felt tho positive assurance of meeting and greeting once more. Brother Palmer was a familiar figure fig-ure in Cedar City. He was one of tho lnndmarks, nnd ho will be greatly missed and often thought of by those who nrc left behind. |