| Show JOHN STAHLE CALLED an octogenarian of swiss descent who had been a resident of bountiful nearly half century john stable sr passed away very unexpectedly at it a quarter pa past st I 1 11 I 1 0 clo clock c it su sunday night for tile the past last year or two ho has been growl ni weaker butu ftp roh ope operation ra tor for catar wt ul oj tile oye last september lio ito liling fi faster both eyes wel wio f al with cataracts and tho thol calit if going 0 o totally blizil caused him great mental acx anxiety lety there was nothing he dreaded so much as blindness this all helped to hasten the end he ha had bad it a very strong constitution tion notwithstanding that ho was a very liard worker all his life and was up nights flights a great loal deal visiting 1 I and administering to the sick of tho the ward the writer remembers ono one instance where it a foreigner I 1 who could not talk english I 1 and who had no relatives nor friends except it a wife who likewise had not learned the language lay sick in bed all su summer m deceased sat up with win him every night and worked days lay s just tho the s same ime a as if lie ho had had his rest ilo ho was U i man who stretched tile the long iong sui summer niner days at both ends john stable sr was born in canton thurnau Thur 11 gau switzerland eighty n years yearn ago the th of last july is near tho the city of constance where john huss djus S the great reformer was burned at the stake when his school days wore over he be went to canton Zu orich where lie he worked in li a tannery for many years in this thi s town he met susannah bauman who beat became time ills his wife A short time after tho the marriage the stable family composed of joachim and catherine stable tho the parents and jacob and john stable and wife and mrs barbara goobler and husband emigrated to utah the father died just before the long iong journey with ox teams was started across the plains the party arrived in utah in october of 1862 after remaining in salt lakes lake a month or two the deceased moved to bountiful where hollwed till the time of bebis his death his wife preceded him to 10 tile the I 1 great beyond by nearly six years N ine children wore born oborn bothem to them two children died in childhood anaa and a daughter mary at about tw twenty one those living are john stable jr publisher of this thia paper county attorneys tor henry W stable mrs david stoker jr mrs frank wright mrs charles T harrison hamson and mrs harold hardy funeral services were held in tho the east bountiful tabernacle wednesday at 1 p m eight el dorsthy dors tho same number as testified to tho the authenticity of the book of morman occupied close to an hour and a half pointing out bout the many beautiful traits of character that the deceased possessed and how he had accomplished every everything thin lie ho had bad set out to do when lie ho joined the church of at jesus christ of L litter later ater day saints in his native land etwas it was stated that ho be had a fixed purpose and never deviated from it etwas it was pointed out that every living creature that came in con can tact with him was by his having lived in the world the speakers were elders samuel smedley alfred burning hain amos allies cook john 11 barlow jr 1 I r president J 11 grant jaren tolman bishop string hani hain and D 0 willey tile the remains rein ains were laid to rest in the bountiful cemetery beside his wife |
