| Show GONE TO HER REST sister sophia W taylor passes away peacefully f r t 1 bitter sister sophia ophis whitaker taylor wife of president john taylor expired at her residence in the fourteenth ward the deceased was born bord at Blake down near kidderminster worcestershire england april alst 1825 and waa was consequently nearing the close of her lier year at the time the late president young president taylor and other members of the quorum of the twelve apostles Ap ostlee were in the missionary field in En england klaud in 1840 ehe ahe was jiving living with her sister in liverpool Liver and those brethren were by them hospitably entertained in that year ebe she era em braced the gospel and irom froin that P period briod to the hour other death was a consistent consi stenE ant conscientious latter day saint she emigrated to this country at an early ear ly day 1 1 and was married to president de nt john u taylor in 1847 at winter quarters after the expulsion of the saints from nauvoo she came to thia this valley in pioneer year landing in ti upon poll the site upon which salt 1 lake ake city now stands october and 2nd 1847 she has four tons and two daughters sister taylor was a moat most estimable woman modest and unassuming ing in her nature her chief ing centered in the proper r rearing e kinf at pf her family having been with t h the church in its earlier phases and having come to this valley before it was settled she the necessarily bad had to endure many privations of a trying nature mature she bore them all with that christian fortitude which 1 wae WAS a leading feature of belchar acar no matter what were tle circumstances of her experience in battling in unison with her respect e ed d husband with the difficulties incident to the development of a new country no murmur of corns com plaint lr int ever escaped from her lips her dying hours were not solaced by the presence of her husband bue band the latter being under the baa ban of a mistaken end and cruel policy which deprives e r ives him of the exer exercise ciss of bis his lie liberty e add drives him into exi exile ae but her friends have the comforting assurance that ehe she h has as gone to a sphere chero ehe she will enjoy the undisturbed peace which is the heritage of the righteous when freed irom from the toils of mori mortality ity |
