Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-01-07 | Page 10 | Patriarch Dies in East Mill Creek

uu PATRIARCH DIES IN EAST MILj CREEK SALT LAKE, Jan. 7. Patriarch John Neff, a pioneer of 1847 and since that time a resident of East Mill Creek, died at his home there yesterday yester-day at 6 o'clock yesterday morning, aged 80 years. Patriarch Neff was tho son of John and Mary Barr Neff and was born in Strasburg. Lancaster county, pa,, December De-cember 28, 1S37. His father and mother became converts to the Mormon faith In 1842 in Pennsylvania and moved to Illinois in 1844, going to Nauvoo In 1846, from which point they started for tho west in 1847, arriving In Salt Lako In October of that year. At Winter Quarters, before leaving for tho Rocky mountains, the elder Neff bought the necessary machinery and started the first Utah grist mill in East Mill Creek in 1848. Decedent for several years acted as presiding elder over tho East Mill Creek branch of the Cottonwood ward. In 1857 ho made a trip to Fort Brld-ger Brld-ger in O. P. Rockwell's company and In 1862 ho participated in the expedl-tion expedl-tion sent out under Captain Lot Smith to guard the mall route. In 1872-'73 he filled a mission to England, presiding over tho Liverpool mission. From 1874 ho served as consellor to Bishop William G. Young, of tho Cottonwood ward until July 16, 1877, when the East Mill Creek ward was organized and of which he was made bishop. nn . .