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Show P- ? PRESIDENT WOODRUFF DEAD ' : Passed Peacefully froi a Restful Sleep into v, HISDEATH TOOK PLACE IN CALIFORNIA gpi Full of Years and Full of Honors iifc Has Passed Pff to His Great Reward L r Wiltord Woodruff, the fourth Frcsi- H:y 'T ' dent of tho Church . of Jeaus Christ if W$' Latter-day Saints, passed peacefully. '$ away at tho residence of Colonel Isaac japl- '. Trumbo, San Francisco, shortly after t't, seven o'clock Friduy morning. :.. , ' Although the Saints throughout the pi "world were in a mensare prepared for JJ' bis demise, still the announcement L -. came unorpectedlv andcauscd universal SI " - ' sorrow, mingled with whch, howoyor m was a feeling of g'rnlitudoJUiat he had so It " long been spared to labor in tho cause r ' ., " ;of God and iua (fellow mart. The follow- i i'Siraccount of his life and works, ib V taken f rorri' the .Deeret $ows : f Ho. was born at Ffiijintngton ("now tK& Avon), Hartford.' Co.,, Connecticut, jWk . March 1, 1807-.J, HAVas the thrd. eon of. ' ,., i Aphek andjBBUlahThomnson Woodruff. vM&ftjl From hia early youth.and.in the. midst ffiBEPpF" gubjects. On December 20, 1883, he F first heard the Goapel from, tho lips-of Elders Zera Pulsipher and Elijah 3 Cheney. To Hear tho truth was, with I him, toboliovo it, and on January 1, 1834, he received baptism. Tho iollow-. iollow-. ing April he went to Kirtland, and F became acquainted with Joseph, tho ?, Prophet. In May ho marched witn t - ''Zion'B Camp" into Miwouri, ft At this timo ho realized a strong doff- aire to become a messenger of the dos-I dos-I pel to his fellownmu, and an if in answor . to his prayers ho was ordained a Priest , on Nov. 5, 1831, and in January, the J following year, he started on a ruis-7 ruis-7 ' sionary tour through tho Arkansas, I TonnesBeo and Kentucky. He went on -V J foot and without purfao and script, and j travoled 3,248 miles. He held 170 meet-Wi meet-Wi iugs, baptized forty threo personn and W organized threo branches. He had 1 many wonderful experiences during thin I tour and miraculous manifestations of f the power of tno Almighty. ' His second missionary tour wan corn's corn-'s ,. ,4 nienced in May, 1837. On this he visited " Maine and the Fox Islands. For two years he labored faithfully in his calling and baptized many converts. While at North Vinal Havoii.ho received notice. of his appointment to tho ApostkHhip, and was ordained to that exalted posi- tlononAprii 20,1830.' T In tho following August he set out for I I ' a mission to Great Britain where hiB t ' labors were crowned with success por- ! Imps never witnessed sinco tho days of i the first Apostles pf our Savior. After . eight mouths' labor he baptized 1,800 i t persons; inclu:ling prominent preachers y of many denominations. Ho then re- r turned homo and reached -Nauvoo in If October, 18-11. 7 Two years later lie was laboring as a ", missionary', in tho eastern Statca but jfil . returned to Nauvoo upon hearing of the BL -- ' 'i iD,'., i .J SBHfc 1 1 . 4 1' ,r If' 1 v" H'i ' '' martyrdom of tho Prophet Joseph. In 1844 he again was sent to preform a mission to England but be returned in time-to join thooxodus from Nauvoo. In 1847 ho traveled with tho Pioneera across tho plains and whs one of the first, to nrrivo in this valley. In 1848 he went again on a mission to tho oastern Htatos, returning in 1850. In this year he wus elected to the Senat6 of the provisional Statu of Deseret and served for twonty-ono years in the legislative assembly of Utah . President Woodruff was closly identified with every mov-lneut, mov-lneut, for tho advancement of Utah and tho State oweB much to his untiring efforts and patriotic zeal. When Tresident John Taylor became President of tho Church Wilford Woodruff" Wood-ruff" was sustained President of the 'Council of Apostles,, and at the General .conference in April, 1889, he became the 61 Latter-day Saints with President George Q.f Cannon and President Joseph F. Smitli jiBcbunselors. President Woodruff's administration has been one of peace and good will towards to-wards all. Among tho Saints he was honored and loved, and even those ol other religious viewBthan his were wont to look up to him-with veneration and esteem. His life work has been a most remarkable re-markable one. From th beginning of liis ministry in 1834 and to the close of tho year 1805,he had traveled 172,309 miles; held' 65H meetings; preached 3,520 discourses ; organized 51 branches of tho Church and 77 preaching place, no traveled in England, Scotland and Wales, and in 23 States and G territories in the Union. Tho special funeral car bearing tho remains of the luto Presidont Wilford Woodruff reached Ogdon at an early hour Sunday morning, being attached to the regular Southern Pacific train Accompanying tho remains were Mrs. Woodruff, President and MrB. George Q. Cannon, ? Bishop and Mrs. Olawson and Colonel Isaac Trnmbo, who came through from San Francisco, and Mr, Paynes, who mot tho party at Reno, and Asabel II. "Woodruff of Z. C. M. 1,. who joined them at Battlo Mountain . A special'train went up over the lto Grande Western, leaving Salt Lake City nt 5:30 Sunday morning, nnd bearing a number of church dignitaries and members mem-bers of tho family of tho deceased, besides be-sides n few who wero invited to accompany accom-pany them. When tho funeral car reached O.den there was a great throng of mourning people, and during the stop thero tho car was thrown open nnd all who desired desir-ed to do ho were permitted to pass through and view tho casket. During this timo thero were many evidences of sorrow and touching little incidents, all 1, m-v. 'n -' - ( , . , . , . ' - ,. i $ .showing the liolu President Woodruff' J had upon the hearts of his people All the way down tho same evidences of mourning wero noticed at every village and hamlet, crowds being assembled na the train parsed, while lints were reverently. raised. There was n dense crowd t the depot in Salt Lake City, n6twuhslanding tho early hour. As the train pulled in heads were uncovered, and tho arrangements arrange-ments previously made wero npeedly carried out. Carriages were in waiting for the members of the, family and theapostlci, and the cagket was gently carried from the car to the hearse, Mr. A. II. Woodruff Wood-ruff and liia brother tnVing tho head as pallbearers,, with fourkgrandBons of the deceased agisting them, The procession' then formed and pro ceeded east on Second South etreet and then, south to Woodruff' villa, on the Kaat drive. All, along the line of the procession crowds had aecembled, and the name touching evidences of sorrow were, shown. . Annouucem'ent of time of funeral will be found on, seventh page. |