Show A veteran gone EDITOR HEBALD HERALD at this late date I 1 am desired to write an obituary of lather father higley who ft ho died of dropsy in this precinct on the alt aged 85 years 5 months and 17 daye days myron S higley IIi gley eon son of job higley and dorcas eggleston was bom in in Sims buryj ct december mh 1801 his ilia father supposed to be dead in in hia his yeah ear myron with ith a younger youn ger brother was leased to an uncle but not relishing the treatment they there received left without warning after two years service wandered off some forty miles and were kindly talen taken in by a stranger with whom ta they y lived some years years when they went vent to gan anoum canada and engaged in in the business of turning wooden bowls and making water buckets bu cLete which clyron exported ex arted in large quantities rie lie married priscilla 1 abbe re 0 n october 1865 1885 heard an and d e embraced nib r c e d the gospel Goepel just before tho the patri patriot vt war and moved to new york state P presided asid over a branch of the church in port leyden two years nado do hia hin mother a visit and converted her to the truth of the gospel but her husband for supposing INI imers yera father to be dead she had married again being so much opposed to the religion she concluded not to be baptized then arid requested abed that one of her daughters should d perform that rite for her hr if she failed to do it for herself while there on that visit elder higley preached night and day as the people would give him no rest they they sent for the smartest preachers in the country round but their doctrines oc rines were not sufficiently substantial to stand before the gospel as expounded by the elder who to get a little rest w was as obliged to conceal himself or elso else said he they would baye hays P preached reached me to death lie ile now dow discovered that his father was not dead and that one of his brothers went to cosce see him where berehe he was established as a hunt in tile city of new york having been brought into some disgrace through lie the treachery of a supposed friend I 1 while bile doing business for fo ranchman a rich to job higley would not write of his I 1 a oberea ou el an and d concluded not ot tf tp return home until b he had re regained ined both wealth and cha character te and when en ho ile warda a ads possessed deboth both and learned that hie his wife wi wag married again he would not go to see his family lider elder higley moved to nauvoo in time to participate in ane persecutions inflicted u upon the saints there from nauvoo ho ho moved ed to bentone bentons fort on the des moines moises river then to council bluel j and from froin there to uintah utah in 1852 1832 helping a family a across c rosa the ilia plains ho ile went vent from uintah to mountain green then to morgan and from thereto there to hooper m here he be resided until his demise dernise his family number eleven children seventy ono one grandchildren and fifty ids eix great grandchildren he ile was tender heart ed strictly honest and a faithful dev otee votee of mormonism niam hie ilia funeral service was held hold m arabe the belief relief society hall and bishop belnap clevi A cox and S S johnson di did honor honor to his memory hie ilia remains m ns were interred with due solemnity in in the hooper cemetery respectfully F 1 |