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Show FUNERAL HELD FOR FRANKLIN CITIZEN Franklin, March 11. Yesterday at two o'clock one of the most impressive impres-sive funeral services wero held In our tabernacle when the remains ot Joshua Hawkes one of Franklin's well known citizens was carried In and followed by his family and tiear relatives rela-tives and a host ot friends, over four hundred persons assembled to show the respect they had for him and his family. The services wero conducted by Bishop S. C. Parkinson. The ward choir rendered appropriate selections Counsellor John A. Lowe offered the Invocation and Counsellor Cecil Wood ward pronounced the benediction. Tho speakers on the occasion wero President Joseph S. Geddes, Counsellor Counsel-lor James Johnson, S. H. Hale and Bishop Condle, also L. L. natch and T.H. Durrant and S. O. Parkinson of Franklin. All eulogized him for his many good qualities, his faithful ness to duty, his Integrity In the church and his splendid example as a citizen. Comforting words and expressions ex-pressions of sympathy were extended to tho family. Deceased was born October 20, 1836 at Far West, Caldwell county Missouri.- He moved to Nnuvoo with the family and remained there until the oxodus; remained in Iowa until 1852, when tho family started across tho plains. Joshua though but a boy, drove an ox team all the way. Ho lived for a number of years in Spanish Fork, and on tho 21st of December, 1859, married Mary Lewis. In 1870 moved to Wollsvlllo; In 1873 moved to Franklin; Idaho. Ho also I lived a few years in Tremont conn- I ty, Idaho, and the last four years re- I sided in Preston. I Hels the son of Joseph Hawkea I and Sophronla Alvord Hawkes and I leaves a wife, eight sons and three I daughters, six of his sons have been I on missions to various parts of the I world, the youngest of the family Is I now on a mission In New York con- I ference.. . Interment was made tn the Frank- Un cemetery. I |