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Show DEATH OF MRS. 1 SARAH POND Aged 83 years and U Much Beloved. H Just a lino to let J on know that one jZfl or Utah's pionecis has passed to ttie Cfl gicat beond. Slstei Pond, born April Kfl '2, 1821, died Match 7, UK)!, at Lewis- IB ton, was bulled In the Richmond ccm- SB ctoy. Funeral set vices were held In 1mm the Lcwlston tabernacle at 11 o'clock 91 Wednesday morning, March I). The flB hall was well tilled with friends and II relatives or the deceased to pay their ill last lespects to her. Tho meeting was Wfl opened by tho Stake choir singing Xfl "Faicwellall earthly honors;" praver HB by J. W. Hendricks, or Richmond; jffl singing, "When First the Glorious nfl Light." The speakers were: Pros. jB W. H. Lewis, W. D. Hendricks, llrig- Bfl ham Pond, the deceased's eldest son, JujBJ and Louis Pond. "Nearer my God to U Thee" was sung by A lvln llrovvcr and uB Maud Allen In a vciv touching man- MB tier. Mr. Grahm, of I'rovo, talked, al- wfl so lllshop William Waddoups, W. S. fll Skldmore and il. A. Hendricks, and fljl Sister Myra Merrill, or Richmond, and HJB W. K. Burnhavn, Sr. The services U were brought ton close by the choir Msl singing "Olt My Father", and bcncdlc- iBB tlon by counsellor Frank Rawlins. mm All the spcakcis had been acquaint- UB cd w lilt the deceased for a great many 1 cars, and they knew her to be a wo- n.fB man of noble character and of sterling mm worth In the Church of Jesus Christ of Wm Latter-day Saints. She joined the fffl chinch while in tier teens and was ac- wB qitalntcd with the prophet Joseph j!l Smith and lias passed thro all the aH hardships and shitting scenes of the SH church from the Piopltct Joseph's vfij time up to the present. She came to KB Utah In 1847, when there was no Salt jfflj Lake City and later lived at Richmond ifl and helped to build up that place. It flflj was there she raised her family. Of mm late jears she has lived in Lcwistou jBfl suriotiudcd by her children, grand- uBJ chlldicn and a host of ft lends. Those wm w ho knew her best lov cd her most, and tfl it can tiiilhfull be said of her, that Ljjfl the vvoild is better for her having KjB lived In it. All her children wcte at LB the bedside at Iter death, except one ijfl daughter; all vveie at the funeral. She ifl leaves a l.uge posterity and a host of flflj friends. She was a devoted wife and l9 a kind and loving mother, a filcnd to fifl the oppressed. She was a saint lit the BJ fullest senseof the woid. The Lcwlston Stock Co. will present flH the beautiful foui-act diama"llecause BB I Love Yon," Tuesday, Maich 15, In MBJ the Lcwlston Opera House. Usual 'ftfl prices. mm |