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Show SISTERSNOW. And one more is called to the great Beyond, one more soul has jcined the boat of friends on the other side. Wi refer to the demise of our aged friend Sister Mary Wells Snow, beloved wife of ''Uncle George," who is now left to tread the gloomy decline of life. To him our sympathies are mostly directed as the twilight of his life is appro-proaching appro-proaching as he still finds that ''it is not good for man to te alone." He has thought this more devoutly every day of his companionship with his devoted wife, who had journeyed with him from the early days of Kirtland in 1831 through all tbe early vicissitudes of church history when the saints were driven from Nauvoo, She always carried a cheerful air, al ways a valliant champion cham-pion of right, ever on hand to assist those who fell .by the way-side, withou bitterness without the thought of anything like hat in her soul. She and - her husband, Uncle George were among the pioneers who settled Manti arriving arriv-ing herein October 1852, took an active part in the Indian troubles of those early days ; she filling the role of peace-maker, nurse to sick and wounded, and mother ail at the same time. She leaves a heartbroken heart-broken husband and four children 10 mourn her loss, but will meet seven in the great Beyond. Siter Snow was 71 years of age and died just IssiJUM ihe was, worn out from from the harshipi of her early life, and age that is a scythe to all. She took sick about Iwelve days before her death and for a time suffered considerable pain, but this soon passed away and Sister Snow gradually grad-ually went to sleep without any apparent ap-parent pain. She died as she had lived, a true and consistent Latter duy Saint, and will meet all her early associates to sing hozannas and prepare a home for her waiting and loving husband. |
