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Show 1XM0R0NI THOMAS, PIONEER OF UTAH, DIES AT THE AGE OF 78 I i k ' ; . rp . I m I ! I Thi-" mornliiL' :it s o'clock thr' ptf.-'eil away one of the early p i o n r Kf th' "1 I lab. Hid um if Hi" btf known 1" len citizens, J. Hjftronl Thomas al In- hum... 8736 Kftsbington mm. .,.,! years U? pun n i'i b in- v. fc Mrs Mary :i. fllbni.i.-. 'In 1 , N. J. Tho Thoaas Hnd Che ter Thoma nd Kjghtcr-, Mr-. .1 ; Read and Elleo Ml. Thon;.t- The funeral services will : bP !i I'l W. !i i 1 - at 3 o'clock In th" bond ward meeiini; house, I'.r ! - i Beorpf E Browning conducting The I wpmains ni.f. be viewed on Tuesday and W 'i'l' urn ii l j. m Kjamcs Moroni Thomas was born in ; , , Roche.-1 nr. in . the boo of Nathaniel und Susan Luce Thomas, who wert' natives of the state of Maine, as were their parents. The parents of Mr. Moroni Thomas joined tho Church of I.atterday Saints at Fox Island. Maim-, and later moved west, where the fa t h ei furnished the teams to bring a number num-ber of companies across the plains, chief anions them being President Wil-fcrd Wil-fcrd Woodruff. Mr. Thomas assisted ih" Saints in many ways. While residing re-siding in Xauvoo, Nathanial Thomns died, and the mother, with her two children, Martin and James continued! vest and with the other pioneers en-1 riured many hardships I 'n arriving In L'tAh In 1S50 they locAtrd in Ogden r.nd have since resided here Mr. Thomas had been a prominen' factor In th upbuilding of the city of Ogden. his first property in the city being located on Twenty-fourth stren and Gr.int avenue The locAtion was just wamp land when Mr. Thomas eame into poseion of it. but waa mad. Into a building site after many hundred loads of gravel had been 'placed upon it. Mr Thomas was in-Utrumental in-Utrumental in the starting of various enterprises in Ocden and established Who first muslr store here. Mr. Thom.i.-J I w an a lovi r of music and had in hl.M possession a violin which bears the tutamp of 179.1. In April. 162 Mr. Thomas made a return trip by ox team to Nebraska, to the winter headquarters of the rburcb. to brine to Utah, Saints who were emicratlnE from the eastern MC-ilpn. MC-ilpn. n this trip, as a means of de-, fense. he carried a gun which he took care to expose from the seat of his j wagon so that the Indians approach in- hlni nncht readily see what he h 1 there and be disposed to become and remain peaceable in his presence. was ihe first man to burn lime in Ogden. and the last lime kiln lie constructed can be seen at this day ic Ogden canyon, through which mountain pass he worked on the construction con-struction of the road and became interested. in-terested. in it as a toll road, and. whn it was purchased by the city, he re-h re-h 084 d his claim. Many of the log cabins that wer j built in Ogden In the early days were, riade possible by his energetic produc-ins produc-ins ot the logs in the canyon Nothing that was of interest to the community was alien to him and he took pride in ! the fact that he was one of the build-en build-en of Ogden's first tabernacle and Of the Second ward meeting house, of which ward he was a faithful and devout de-vout member. In his earlier Mfe h" v.'as a home missionary and at his death he traa a member of tho hit;h iriest council of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Mr Thomas was married to Mars Ifebdnn Holroyd. daughter of Thomas ; land Dinah Holroyd. who came to I'fahj in 1861 from England The family sailed on the same vessel as Aposlio Franklin l Richards. Mr Thomas was anions tho lirst plo ncere of the city to establish a merchandise mer-chandise store and he, with his Bona, conducted the Thomas Brothers grocery gro-cery for many years. Even in his oid age Mr. Thomas did not lose his activity and just recently built a fine clothes line reel and put it on the market. At the famllv Gathering on July 7, Mr Thoma- related some very intci-esting intci-esting Btoriea Of pioneer days in Utah and lold the story of hi mother - n quaintance with the prophet. Joseph smith Mr. Thomas was a child of, four years wtien the prophet was killed, but he remembered the sorrow among the Mormon peopTe. He related in an interest Ins manner the loe of the Mormon people for their leader, Drigham Young Mr Thomis had a number of grandsons in the recent great war. They were Roland M. Thomas. Harold A. Johnson. Leland Deo Thomas, Clyde F Thomas and Stanley Dee Thomas Two are still in the service, Roland M 1 Thomas in France, and Stanley Dec-Thomas Dec-Thomas in Siberia. |
