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Show TO HER REWARD Mrs. Elizabeth Benson Passes Away Mm day Morning. About thrco o'clock In the morning of May 4th, there passed away a pioneer pio-neer women of Cache Valley who Is esteemed for her worthiness and gentleness throughout the whole of Northern Utah and Southern Idaho and wherever else she was known. This woman was Elizabeth Golliahar Benson. She was born In Clinton Co., on the 30th day of December, 1832. Her father was AVm. Golllhar and her jfMnothcr Elizabeth Orton. rt ' Along with the very earliest of the pioneers she, with her parents, came to Salt Lake city. In 1853, on the 5th of June she was married to Apostle Ezra T. Benson as his fourth wife. i Two children were born to her while , in Salt Lake, Fred G. and Brlgham Y., ; and then in 1860 she moved with her J husband to Logan and has resided i here since. In her youth she was well acquainted acquaint-ed with the Prophet Joseph Smith, i having lived as a neighbor to him. At ( a very recent meeting Sister Benson - related instances of her life with the Prophet Joseph. After her arrival here she was placed In as President of the First t, Waid Heller Society; then, afterwards, after-wards, of the live Logan wards. In 1872 she was chosen president of the Belief Societies of Cache Stake, In I which capacity she traveled from Avon on the South to Gentile Valley on the North. Lucy S. Cardon and Louisa Benson, wife of George Ben- i son, were then her counselors. With these sisters she traveled under the .flnost adverse circumstances of the t "Times. A horso was procured from i one family, a wagon from another, a spring seat from another, a harness from a fourth, and, collecting these ' an outfit was procured with which appointments could be filled. , When tho Logan temple was opened f , she was called as a worker. This duty 'i she cheerfully responded to, though her duties as President of the Relief '( Societies took up much time and la- bor. Patiently and diligently she ' continued In all hor labors. From her X only words of contentment and cheer -; passed; she lived a life of the heart, i ' the whisperings of the soul, tho 'r promptings of a higher feeling. In ' this double capacity she worked until J she was released from the Presidency 1 on account of 111 health In 1890. Many remember Sister Benson as a kind-faced, gentle lady, with a heart's interest in all good causes. Many ' young people think of her as tho lady who had a word for them when others would send them away; as a lady to whom they could go and expect a blessing. They havo grown to man- r 4Wood and womanhood with only kind remembrances of her, which will remain re-main to foster kind feelings and good thoughts. Mrs. Benson had seven children, six living and one deceased, and scv- cnteen grandchildren. The children living aie Fred G., Brigham Y., Wm. C, Hyruin, Edith. Tho one deceased Is Luella. At the time of Mrs. Benson's Ben-son's death she was with her daugh-1 daugh-1 ter, Mrs. Owens, In Wcllsville. She .? will bo brought to Logan and buried i here Wednesday. Tho body will Ho In stato from 10 A. M. until 12:30 P. M. at the residence of her daughter ' Elizabeth on 1st West. Tho funeral services will bo held at 1 P. M. In tho i , Tabernacle. |
