| Show I IV i g another valiant Tallant veteran gone oni I I ails cr or action i the tile funeral servi evs over the rei i mains of the late into elder joel J i terrell were held in the mound i port fort meetinghouse on wednesday j february february ry 1883 and were coni ducted by vy bishop david moore foore aud and t liia ilia counsel alter after singing by the I choir the ening i pray er was ws offered by elder T jamea ames taylor another I hymn was sung after which a discourse on the subject of the resurrection was delivered by elder joseph hall in which he lie demon I from holy writ that those who live godly and die dis in the lord I will ill not only receive a literal resurrection of the tile body but with the dead in christ they will rise first and arid meet the tile lord when he ile shall descend from heaven rith a shout accompanied by the saints who have already risen and awa it the tile alim time appointed fur for them to come I I again to the lite earth r father A th er terrell terrel I kept h hh covenant waa faithful I fou fought I I t the good light died in the tile an faith and at the morning of the resurrection will rise rime from the grave grav c and again be united in the holy family i IY circle and live with them forever tie te speaker bad been acquainted quain ted with the deceased since issi band and never knew him to falter in ili lis his faith or shrink from any duty it imposed epou him in the church I ife e was frank openhearted open hearted and free lie lid was bold fearless and ever read ready to defend to the bet offis P ability bit the he principles rina jalcs p C tap gospel which I elder D 11 peery peer next ad armed ther assembly lie ile spoke of his ilia acquaintance with r father terrell and lie could fully indorse all ull that had be been I slid of ill previous aspea ker iio ile had fiad met I father terrell afew months ein chicago when the latter was on oil a visit tg in the east I lie I e never let an opportunity afim to bear testimony that god had r restored c the gospel to the tile earth ain a again in in ill those days flays ilia his te testimonies ti I les were powerful and lined dictated and ind si by the spirit of the lord the speaker knew t unit it iha a deceased had done his ilia work faithfully on arth tarth t and find that lie will receive a crown of eternal life in tho tile kingdom of god elder lorin farr made a few very timely remark in which lie referred to many noble traits in the i character of father terrell in fact durina during the great number of years I ho lie ba had ben acquainted with him t the li e speaker never kiew klew ki ew liim him otherwise than as a it good man a kind llund husband and itil an father and ald faithful latter day saint after a few lions by the bishop the services were brou brought clit 11 to a close by singing ringing by the choir choi and benediction by elder joseph parry A large cortege followed the remains to the lie cemetery where they were deposited in their final finn resting place joel stid kin terrell was the son of henry and charity J he me was wits born March 10 1801 in campbell county virginia when about even years old ho lie emigrated cited with lna his fathers family to of ot ohio and t settled in highland iland county where they remained till 1888 1838 when they again removed to iowa a few miles from burlington in des moines county joel J terrell fer was baptized into tho the church of jesus christ of latter Latt erlay da saints in in the spring ilk of 1844 he shared wi with lih alic saints in their exodus from froin N nauvoo 1840 Ho served in in the mormon battalion in capt james browns company he ile was with ith captain browns detachment at santa fe alic entered the S Salt Lako valley with the pioneers ho ile assisted a sted ali yik making the first adobes acobes and building the old fort where the pioneers first but camped in salt lake city afie thormo went back with president Brig brigham barrt youngs company to the missouri river and re turriNI to the valley with joseph charles and henry in orson spencers rims company in 1860 he lie came me to weber county and settled at mound port fort near ogden city where lie continued to until liis his demise in III 1882 joel J terrel made roade a it trip to the east to visit liis his friends and gather up the gene of his anc ancestors esters who had died without a knowledge of the gospel but bitt who ho can bo be officiated for in the house of the tile lord I |
