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Show WELL KNOWN WOMAN DEAD KKXIJUIUI, March II. On Sunday morning, March 10th, at o'clock, Mary Eliznboth Kicks, daughter of Thomas K niul Fu-bitlm Fu-bitlm Hicks, passed peaceably into in-to the sleep of death. Sho wns born at Loguu City, Utah, on the 19th day of August, 18G1. At birth she wns n beautiful child, perfect in bodily form niul intellect. intel-lect. When sho wns but n fow months old sho contracted a very severe cold, which affected Tier lower limbs, and finnlly rcstdtcd in hip disenso, from which she suffered' all tho rest of her life. Her predominant characteristics wero, sympathy for the sick and nftlieted, philnnth'rophy, ehnrity, congeniality and dovotiou, especially espe-cially to her aged mother. Sho wns trito to her friends, nover betraying be-traying n trust imposed in her. Though sensitivo becnuso of her nlllictions, she endured patiently nil tlint she hud to pn.ss through, and when she finnlly concluded that sho must soon ntiswor tho stunniins of her Eternal Father, sho seemed inspired to offer tip n prayer, niul with both hnuds uplifted, up-lifted, out from her lips went the most pathetic, tho most fervent, mid the most solemn prayerful Words that it hns over been tho lot of tho writer to listen. There wero several persons in tho room nt the time nnd each head impulsively im-pulsively lowered with rovcrenee, each heart wns thrilled by the earnestness nnd sincerity of her prayerful utterances. Her mother's moth-er's earthly wcllfnro soemed to concern her most. All that seemed seem-ed to cnuso her any drend of death wns that she should lenvo donr mother to sirugglo on with-' with-' out her. |