Show two funerals funeral s last week in our last weeks issue we announced tile the death of two of our bur old people in fillmore fill more mr john E walker ha having passed I 1 away hwey on the aud and bishop alexander melville ovic on the ath being confined at home with sickness ye were knabl to attend the fun funeral ered of pur our d departed friends funeral services service s over the remains of mr walker were held in the ward chapel on friday conducted by bishop JS brunson the speakers were bishop P V L brunson and counselors james A I 1 kelly music and singing was furnished hy by the ward choi r mr walker was a native of pta scotland and came to america when a young boy his mo fliers family who had become members of the mormon church re he came to fillmore in the early seventies but prior to his coming here ibb he I 1 had lost ins his standing inthe int be U aich aai also lost his bia wife ile fie married Marria tf again after comina comin 1 l pt t and is is survived survia va and daughter mk M OI 01 M al kelly the funeral a xander met 1 l yi I 1 jille was hold held Z saturday in ohp he fillmore ward chapel and he absence of bishop brun wa counselor jams jam s A kelly al grandson of the deceased presided music was furnished furnia hed by alo ahti ward choir conducted mn ducted by miss ather rie Wood woodhouse bouse tile the were elders joseph V robison and joseph D smith who had bad been close friends and co laborers with ilch the old pioneer for many years alexander met mel vila filje was ayas tile the son of john and mary melvine Melvil Melvi He leand and wag wad born in scotland february 15 1821 his early we wag spent upon the seas taking aking part in pol polar ar expeditions u whale hunts and having le learned ar e the coppers trade frade manufacture tu rid I 1 barrels for foh tho th broring of the wha bhae e oil he became a convert to the latter day faints Saints gospel while yet a yoli young na man iran and emme came to america in time to share with the saints in dobbings mob bobbi bings mid ivings dr in iii missouri and illinoia inow came V to utah in 1853 1 and to fillmor in 1868 1863 where here his hie home lias has been evet ever since and held various positions ivil bivil od and ace af e in 1877 when fillmore was war divided into two waris wards bro melville was 0 ordained as bishop and set apart to preside over the north wari ward which po r ilion lie told till the wo two burds cerero were ero rd obied ji bishop melville Melvil lc had been mar ried twice the first wile wife being mary B E adamson who bore him two children and died in mig mi boari boari he afterwards married jane dutson who bore him elevon eleven children two wives aves and two children have preceded d him to the great boy beyond paid he is ie survived v by eleven eb children ildren and a a d r host of gerarid granddad aud great grand children hi k children living are jamesa james A of salt lake anna E dishop of celiat V mary ary J kelley elizabeth brig bama fa sros francis 0 daniel david and nd georgo borge E melville of fill ore k |