Show patriarch inlaid Is laid to rest funeral services servi oes over 0 the ret 4 mains iiii hins of presiding g patriarch olin john T smith were held in hi the ta tabernacle b e r i in cle at salt like lake city last sti sunday aday a afternoon hernoon f ter noon alim great tribute was pa paid id to tho departed high church man john roli ll 11 smith was wag the fifth presiding aidin 9 patriarch of h of jesus fesus christ of latter day saints and alid was the eldest son sai hyrum of and jerusha Jerus lia smith formerly jerusha ferus lia burden barden and was bork at kirtland ohio september 22 1832 with his fia fathers titers family lie went to missouri in 1888 1838 and ay I 1 d with them removed rei noved to illinois after remaining a short time lie in in I 1 quincy the family removed ao to commerce since nauvoo Gau from oin which period lie he lias ins shared in the various va vicissitudes thru shiell tile the church lias has past he was baptized by john taylor in 1841 1811 in the fall of 1888 his father his uncle joseph and others while residing in far west missouri were taken prisoners pris oneas by it a I ruthless ruth lesH mob milita and after being abused in many dayi and threatened with death wore finally I 1 I 1 IV I 1 hy lad ad in liberty aa il clay 77 dounty jail during the winte winter r his fathers family with m many i ally others were driven missouria when jolin john suffered ered much from cold and li hunger ris his i lather ather and his uncle joseph the prop prophet liet were marty martyred red in car tage jail by a mob june his mother litti hild died october 13 1837 with a company of pioneer er lie he landed in salt lake valley on liis his sixteenth birthday sept 22 1848 sept 21 1852 his stepni stepmother died leaving him with his youji younger goi brother brot lier now president jose joseph ph P F smith sinith to provide provi 4 for three little sisters on hristeas day lie he married miss helen alaria fisher by whom lie ho had nine children alv five e bonti and four daughters Taugh the of office ice of presiding Patr patriarch iare ii is the only one that comes by inheritance in the L D S church joseph smith sen father of the prophet joseph smith 0 mith was the first presiding patriarch of the church being ordained dee dec 18 1833 at kirtland ohio under tile the hands of tile the prop prophet liet joseppi Jos epli oliver cowdry sidney rigdon and y F G williams anil ana cantin tinon bied in ift that office until his bis death dead chich occil occurred r ed at Xau nauvoo Sept 14 t 1840 on oil jan 19 1941 in a revola jijon 01 on alif bruthe hr ia uthe ti ie aseph aci qs se eph phi smith f father amith eldest living son was called to suc deed his father as patriarch he reee received ived the 0 office jan 24 1841 mid and kept it until his martyrdom in bartla carthage e jail june 27 1844 his brother Wil william liani who was also a member of the qu quorum orall of tw twelve ive apostelos s icie eded him by virtue birtile of his birthright I 1 or age but lie he apostatised and was excommunicated from the church 06 oct t 12 1845 john mith Smith brother of the late soseph smith se sen fi was sustained I 1 i and ordained as the presiding siding Patria patriarch reh of the churchran church jan fan 1 1849 uncle J ohn jolin smith as ife he was familiare fa called died may alay 23 1854 and on june following john smith smithson son of the mar byred I 1 hyrum smith itil was ellan ch s m patriarch of the church in his place he was wah ordained fob feb 18 1855 and has ins held the office offic 56 years which is is the longest that any office lias been held by one man inan in the church th ohi irell |