Show ANOMER VETERAN Z gone to join one ones where th uie e arf 4 anest I 1 I 1 the funeral services over the re maina mains of sister louisa ward ward botham who died on saturday night jan 8 1887 were held at the reel deave of her son inlaw in laic law elder david U peery on monday jan there was a very large assembly in attendance the sp aclus Acius parlors of the house being filled besides a num her bir of other ellms r rooms in the house rhe music wai furnished by the second wa ward rd choir the services service ere conducted by blihor top robert SU Mt the firby hymn liang was sibet sibber Sib ter r thou wast mild and lovely 10 the opening ening prayer its of fertil by elder joseph hall the choir then rendered tendered the hymn b mn 4 creation speaks with awful voice clarki a universal Uni vernal vercial groan I 1 the first speaker was elder D 31 stuart lie spoke of his aca acq acquaint faint ance with the deceased he ne bald id a tew few days before her death ho lie was called on to adri administer to mother higginbotham and he lie was satisfied theu that the limn time for her departure from 1 this life was as at hand and slid she dla not survive cur bur give vive long afier after but de parted ia in peace to the spirit world where her husband and aume of her children had hoid preceded her the last prayer thai that she offered up to the of grace was 0 god be perciful to me and my children b bhe he lived of late has years for her childrens sake whom sue she deded de bied to see eee continually t dually walk in the ways of the zord lord and keep keel his ilia commandments to ue their father and mother bad had done she bad lived the hie life of the righteous and died a true and faithful lat berday ter day saint she has bas left a good oud an and h holy y influence behind her and exerted a goud good influence while sho lived she a was nut not a rest talker but her silence puke good goodness nets bhe she has ha jived lived beyond the measure of days allotted to man aibe has finished her course she had has died in thu lord and has copied her husband and alldren children hll dren to the grand reunion in tho the resurrection ot of the jurt elder john C thompson was the next speaker he lie kner klafer sister ilig between forty and fifty years he lie was acquainted with her before she was in thu the church in 1810 1840 lie lived with her he eaid afier sue was baptised baptized sed in ili 1841 etie she preached the gopel gospel toll to him im and it w was under the tile good influence she wielded w that he lie and others wa was s induced to and stud embrace the gospel at dirks gardens virginia he lie bore testimony to the stood uglier hearther and fidelity to the church and kingdom kiu of god for which sh shelved ved suffered and died after receiving the goodel ebb she gL gathered with the baines to nauvoo and will with them ebe she shared in the ilia exodus and lost alf all for truths eake sake bhe she now rests from ull all her toils and will her great reward aldert TB B lewis next addressed the assembly ass asse emby luby he ile first became ac quain quainter ted with deceased 21 years ears ago at the residence reel denie of her daughter and eon son inlaw in ill law brother and biter D il 11 pe peery let she was a woman of nuble biffl mind and noble conceptions ehe she more wore than an ordinary capi city and understanding bhe she had bearr fur for many eare ears a widow and had struggled nobly to learn her chil chilgren fren in lit the ilia fear of god she had always labored to make the earth better for having baving lived in it when back in her tier native state virginia Virgin li fhe site had passed through the fearful fratricidal struggle the civil war that di diso solaNd bo u many and homes howes and tunde numerous wido widows a and orphans yet she could the dark cloud and see ee tho the d day I 1 y of peace that would end th the strife and bring to her and here deliver aare nce blie was always faithful ani and true and hercul breathed naught but kindness and o 0 or alt all mans man kind klud she be bv con gone to her tier rest and the speaker believed that here hers will be among the tile bhelt rewards that will be awarded to the faithful saints of bod it was through her tier be was led to outbrave oin out brace the gospel apostle P F D richards was as tho tile next speaker among other ather good and comforting things he saida said in every seme u of the 64 gospel mother was a member of the chunh church oi of the first burn and had come unto the spirita pirita of 0 just men wade perfect he ile said she was alwayn full of anxious solicitude for the welfare of her tier children and di alred that they w would into the ardi dane of the gospel fully A short time before she died and whilo on a visit to hie his home sir she desired the speaker sp euker when an opportunity offered ered too to peak eak to her tier children on this subject illeta he took that opportunity now to cou advise and urge upon them the to the desires of their mother to go with their companions companioni and gather around the altar of the tile lord in his ilia a aad attend ka tend to the ordinances of or tl alap the doepel 1 as fir as possible poe sible that would unite tile members of the household and it as coin complete plate as they could by alie atten dill I 1 to all the ordinances of the tile lot lords life house fur their dead in every branch of the family that their joy might be lull full WI ihen their father fatter and mother are ate 1 ahnin I uita united will with them in the resurrection loit of the jut he lie then gaye gate much good asod fatherly advice and in st ruction that was equally ally applicable I 1 od ad pr to all present lie ile clofed loed with a prayer that the pence and anti blessing of god might rest upon the mourners and all present alter after a few appropriate remarks from froth bishop the choir ii sang my father thou that dwell est in the high and glorious place the benediction was wa by president F middleton A 1 tally cortege then followed the remains to the cemetery the tile containing them were lowered into lie tile silent crave prave the dad prayer wit win i offered bv president lorli larin farr elder C C richards Rihard rt on be hd lukof of I 1 lie family and friends of t lie deceased dece aced thanked thank ed lie w for tho their ir atten attention tinn and kind kindla neos on the solemn nt occasion alon and all hl that Is mortal of aloth mother er in was left to I 1 i 1 I 1 a |