| Show Who mho is this Mt Pleasant Pyramid Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day May 6 1921 In respect to the memory of r all places of business and public Institutions will wUI be closed during the funeral servIces services services ices which will wUl be held on Tuesday afternoon This pioneer was born In a little thatched straw-thatched cottage n na na n na a roadway leading from Seest KOlding Holding Denmark January 13 1846 of good honorable par par- He received a splendid common common common com com- mon school education and wasso was wasso wasso so proficient In his studies that the principal offered him hima a free scholarship in a college with chance to work and earn l his s board but his parents having having having hav hav- ing embraced the religion of the Latter day Saints chose to ignore this offer He emigrated to the United States at the age of 22 The voyage lasted 56 days and 41 souls died and were thrown Into the sea This voyage was made In the last sailing vessel that ever carried Mormon immigrants Immigrants immigrants grants over the Atlantic He crossed the plains with the last ox team train that ever came across with Mormons Mormons Mormons Mor Mor- mons arriving in Salt Lake on September 25 1961 where he was married by Wilford Woodruff Woodruff Wood Wood- ruff ruU In the old endowment house The couple started from Salt Lake the same evening in a a. wagon drawn by ox team Arriving In Fountain Green they set out on foot for Mt Pleasant Pleasant Pleasant Pleas Pleas- ant carrying in their hands all their earthly belongings They overtook an ox team driven en by Aaron C C. C Omen and were Invited to ride and finish their honeymoon Coming to this city the day of October 1869 He lived a short time In Moroni but fate drove him back to Mt Pleasant where he re re- re sided for over 50 years He was a member of the United Order and helped build the Manti Temple In 1882 he was elected a member of the constitutional c convention In 1884 he was elected mayor of Mount Pleasant Pleasant Pleasant Pleas Pleas- ant re-elected re in 1886 and again in 1888 In the fall of that year he toured the southern counties of the state for his church inthe In Inthe Inthe the Interest of the ManU Mantl Temple accompanied by Cyrus H. H Wheelock and Wilford Woodruff In 1888 he was again elected a member of the constitutional convention and helped draft the constitution which for the sixth time Ume was rejected by the government government government gov gov- at Washington He served as a counselor in the bishopric and in 1890 when the two wards were united in one which was then the largest largest largest larg larg- est ward in the church he was chosen to preside as bishop which office he held for 12 years For 30 years he served as a a. member first of ot the city school board and later of the district school board He was also for years years a member of the Snow College Board Upon the adoption of statehood statehood statehood state state- hood himself and Judge Sutherland Sutherland Suther Suther- land addressed most eloquently one of the most notable gatherings gatherings gatherings gather gather- ings ever held In the city He has in his lifetime preached to more funerals inthIs inthis In Inthis this city than any other one man manin manin manin in this section He was a funeral orator and was generally at his best in this capacity The people mourn him as a a. father who has left them but they have before them the noble example of a life pure and un unselfish unselfish un- un selfish service Funeral services will beheld be beheld beheld held Tuesday afternoon at 2 |
