| Show AUNT POLLY sister mary it IL Rec receives elTes the last lait tribute of respect by lle her numerous Xum erous friends and fellow saints sketch of her eventful career and an excellent character 6 the funeral services over there the re mains of sister mary it IL middleton wife of patriarch wm win middleton held inthe in the second ward dWard assembly hall saturday nov im the congregation was called to order by bishop R and the choir sang the hymn creation speaks with awful voice hark a uni groan 1 theo the opening e ning prayer was ave s offered by elder ider E q lmh in 11 wright the choir cho ir then sang mourn nol not the dead who peaceful lay their wearied bodies down BISHOP F A having been called upon to make a few remarks said this occasion had caused many reflections to pass through his mind in regard to liis his 1 early tra training ining and the ideas of christianity aiga alky in regard to death the tile P speaker er contrasted the opinions of alie world and the latter day saints allowing showing the glorious future of those who have obeyed he tile gospel of our lord jesus christ he ile considered those things sweet to reflect upon the tile rev henry ward deecher once said ta that at one of the most unfortunate things that could happen to man was to bo be born what an idea the a speaker eaker thought it a great blessing bles sine to ee be enabled to hayo our spiritual form clothed upon with a mortal tabernacle in order to ob obi tain lain the experience necessary lonbo ry for r us to lave have if we desire a salva salvation t bisho bishop hammond had bad been acquainted quain ted with sister middleton about 25 years and a more consistent member of the church he be had never known ki she slie was wasa a woman of excellent elc cl understanding and sense and slid a helpmate in every sense ortho 0 word and jio prayed p a ed the loid lord to bless father aa aber and comfort ins his beail in tin this s ins his bereavement ELDER JAMES TAYLOR TAYL Olt i in listening ahw ta to alic tt remarks of f hie the previous speaker had been i led orabe of the saying of tho the apostle paul there is a spiritual and thero is asals aisa a natural body 1 the spiritual is alie offspring of god and dwelt with him flim for ages before we pul on mortality and can never die the body is subject lee t to t 0 pain and suffering and finally dies the spirit is not but being clothed clothed with the tile fleshy tabernacle it enters in a measure into the tile trials of this probation but death haa has no effect upon it the speaker thought thou glit death must fie te sweet we fall into the grave like a shock of wheat full ripe we have no cause to mourn tor for we expect to pass away having come here to gain experience that we wo may beco become melike like our heavenly father and when we shall bo be called forth in tho the mornine of the resurrection when god shall call forth our bodies from the grave abey will clothe our spirit and will so remain united for ever and ind forever elder taylor admonished monib moni hed shed all to see that their condi and course of life was the same as that of sister middleton and there will be no cause for fear I 1 ho 1 closed liis his interesting remarks by invoking iti g the blessings of god upon nil all who were called to mourn at this time ELDER LOEIS faril laid occasions such as these should cause us to reflect upon the things of god and the sublimity of the gospel vc we know not liow how soon all any y of us may bo be caled ct aled upon to pass away and eo go into the spirit world and it is necessary that we should per perform forin as I 1 many dan good works while here BS as possible that we may hayo have no cause canie for regret ahen we pass behind the leil veil life is is uncertain for it was only a short time ago the speaker saw our beloved sister and he be then thought she had man years to remain on oil the earth but today we are called cal I 1 ed upon to pay upon our last respects to her h ir alie T le speak er had been ac acquainted fainted with speaker father ather middleton ana and faan family ily for nearly 44 years they were neighbors in nauvoo and ho lie never came canio across anything derogatory to lier her character a as a latter day saint they y 11 had ad passed through many the t trials r 6 s a and n d I 1 r 0 a shortly after coming couling to ogden their house was burned epand some of their perished but sister middleton bore up against it with great fortitude elder farr admonished those present to keep the commands of god and live BO sa as to be worthy the held out for the faithful he ile y prayed rayed god to comfort and bless tho friendson friends friend of the departed and that the peace of out heavenly father might bo be with us continually ELDER L J hernick HERRICK could indorse all that had been beert said of sister middleton 41 iddle ton he ile had bad been a neighbor to her for anany many years care and he lie considered rhe lio lia biad d done liim much good as ho knew of no ile ono one who had taken the place of or a mother to him BO so well since hh lili mother died sister middleton had told him ha be would live to bo be present prose tit aelier at her funeral and had expressed a desire for him im to sp eakon on that occasion oce aaion she had 11 passed e d through considerable atad n abut but had ever over proved herself a woman of strong SI rong ft will ill mid and a leading character of ilia und in days gone by had bad inno considerable and demable toward alienating alleviating the satre rin gs of her fellow beings he ile sympathized sympathised with brg Hrc ther trier middleton and the bo be reaped faini family lyp and prayed that they hialit be blessed and comforted an al though they tiley alati tho tile satisfaction of knowing they will meet lier ber again if they remain faithful willful elder herrick paid id a pleasing tribute to the tile aerni ory of sister ister 6 middleton Middle tou eulogizing lierni any virtue a abid good deeds as a saint oyide mother and worthy neighbor and friend ROBT made ft a few closing remarks in conf inen inundation dation 0 what had been said ald and prayed anat tho the blessings of god be poured out upon those who had now been called upon to part with a near and dear friend the hoir choir gang farewell all earthly honors I 1 bid you all adieu and the benediction was pronounced by prest N C flygare the con congregation rp then viewed the remains after iler which tho the funeral cortege was formed and proceeded to tho the ogden cemetery e where tile earthly tabernacle of aunt polly as sister middleton was yas familiarly called was laid to rest till tho the morning of the first resurrection the good and noble aged sister muy ary heady middleton tho the daughter of of charles butler and rebecca silkwood was born nov in hopkins II co ky when sho she was w as about five years old she moved her tier parents to st StClair clair co Ill which was then thelt still a wilderness when she bad barely reached eight years of no igo her tier mother died tea leaving ing six cil children dren four of whom were younger than mary who being the eldest girl of the fa family tolly had to assume the care oft of there lie Sill QUARRIED MARRIED WU ml in july 2831 1831 and settled with liim him at what is 13 now okawville washington co there she became aci quainter quain ted with the glorious truths of the the gospel of jesus christ which she soon embraced being boing baptized into the church of jesus christ of latter day saints in ili the fall of 1834 by elder georgo hinkle inkle II at that aimo imo her cond child Pros president ident C F middleton being a babe the following spring her husband AN ACCIDENT by which his ankle was badly mashed prostrating pro him on his back for about ten cn mouths months throwing the burden of iho ilia labors odthe of the toilsome frontier life on the faithful wife the following of tho the misfortunes by which their faith has been repeatedly proved befell them while absent dwelling for the first time since tho the accident to ard br middleton the tile house and all sta its contents were burnt down they fitte dup their smokehouse and by hie tile aid of their frienda friends commenced to lee house again but while ihry were at meeting ng one sabbath day daj bosee VULUS X BET SET firn to tile he ehouse which then contained a lot of goods fur they had sold their farm preparatory to going to missouri to settle with tho file baines bain ls The goods were mostly destroyed st but the family gradually pot got over their heavy loss and in the summer of 18 1830 36 they started to move to clay co mo on account cf tho troubles there however iliev stopped on oil crooked creek hay ray Co como Ilo and ill ili the he following spring gathered with their fellow believers on creek in co near far gemilere bro middleton an undaunted pioneer went into till WOODS OS OX UIS HIS cut logs for ft a house and by tho the aid of hid his oxen and cart drew them cr er and built a habitation for his iiii dear ones antho in alio same manner he lie got out rails and fenced a small farm from which to abt obtain ain a modest sustenance here they had other trials they buried their third child a gill ill babe labe and just as 03 they were beginning to get tolerably well fixed fur for living the savage lawless moly moh arose a abnit ther saints of the most high god and drove all those residing in the tile 0 outlying hamlets ahlo far west where t the ia brethren united in ili alip del ESSE OF THEM CITY sister had her ber share of or the tribulations at tho the hands of the allu ungodly odly often slie she had bad to leave iier tier temporary home before breakfast was prepared tako take her three little ones and flee floe from the assaults of ed mob over the frost covered gou ground n I 1 to a more central cen part of the cita i f for pr protection tion finally they were compel ledin the dreadful and dreary depth of winter ito to retire from the ginlio inhospitable potable state altogether settling stear SEAR NAUVOO ILL i in december 1840 sister middleton parted with her lier eldest child who died from the effect of afa a fall on tho tile ice in the midst of lie the saints she and her tier family lived at nauvoo and in tho tile surrounding sur country sharing all tile vicissitudes of the people of god until the tile spring of 1840 when she crossed tho the wilderness of iowa to po go to council bluiss the they went down on into upper missouri for the purpose of getting work ant and lived there about 18 months in ti aliis I 1 timo time she buried her tier fifth child who died from scarlet fever which scourge camo came near carrying oft three oilier other of her tier children in ili tile spring of or isa they moved up to the oll old indian agency now platteville Poto watto mie co iowa lows and in 04 alio spring of aso CROSS CROSSED ELTHE THE PLAINS PLAIS and arrived in the mountain homo horne of the saints settling in ogden city with whose progress and prosperity her tier family have been identified ever since in june 1851 sister middleton buried her tier father charles butler who hail had been a it member of her family kyfor for several years attaining tile ripe old age of 77 years iio he waa was tho first perison person interred in the ogden cemetery in n january 18 3 while her till husband osband was herding stock at vallat jj now y la is west weber and iier tier son charles at we meeting eting 11 en ell TOOK J and while she was bryin try ing g to rescue tile small children cli ildren from the fury of tho lie flatos flar pes she waa was severely burned ill ili the face carrying the scars fears of iho the burns to her grave her four cli ildren reined from the conf conflagration Ia gration but three of them died within ahr daya dava from the effects of the 11 woun dounda Is the fourth more fortunate survive to become afterward tho tile wife of mr 0 F browning of this city iier her subsequent life was uneventful even t ful and her declining days were of a peace and comparative prosperity which partly compensated for the trials and bard hardships ships of her earlier life A faw OF TIIE CITAR ACTER of the deceased will not bo be out but ol 01 place ill at hie the close of tho tile brief blo graphical sketch for iho the points of which wo are under obligations to her only surviving son prest C F middleton sister middleton was all her ber lifetime an industrious person from the rosy checked girl up to the silver haired matron up to the time of ofilio tile last firo fire she had bad manufactured all the clothing for her whole family MOM KAW itaw MATERIAL while traveling in lier her wagon from across the plains and also algo from council bluffs on the arduous burn I 1 bourney to the rocky mountain ansy lum ofa of a god fearing persecuted people slie she always had some knief kaitlin lin ing in her deft and busy hands and seldom beldom was the time when she did not have a pair of socks or mittens to sell to aid in supplying the wants of her family it ia is estimated that 1000 would not cover the value of the productions of n CE KNITTING NEEDLES she suffered of indigestion all lier tier life lire and a great deal of other tier work was d done one ili in pain A prominent feature of her amiable character waa was her tier great I 1 love ove for flowers which she tenderly and skillfully fully nursed and raised thousands have derived de do light to eye and car ear from the beautiful beds and clustering vines of the children of spring with which her pardon garden and house front were embellished and empowered embowered ered every spring and for long years not a flower season was allowed to pass but that the editorial sanctum ot of the ogden june and afterwards the ogden aden fann ALD was made redolent with the fragrance of her floral favors for which kindly tokens alone she will be held in UNDYING PIOUS mors sister middleton was a devoted faithful wife an ever read ready y helpmate though adversity of all kinds she was also a most affectionate mother to her tier nine children two of whom survive her to call her name blessed but above all she was a true consistent latter day saint and she is sure of the reward promised to those who serve the lord two children twenty nine grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren are left to mourn her tier loss and KEEP HER MEMORY in in loving hearts besides hundreds of friends who will long miss the motherly look and tho the kind greeting of aunt polly who however hoever humble and end unostentatious lier tier career was one of gods noblewoman noblewomen noble women she rests tests in peace i |
