| Show it servia kl A pioneer ud gool woman laia to reat the funeral services over the remains a mother rachel middleton ho died age of 93 years were hold at 2 arm i the second wad meeting house the services were by ile I 1 and s I 1 tb doxey by ham t tie meeting was called to order the choir ster thou wast mald and lovegr gentle as the breeze prayer was offered by elder joseph P rr T b than sang the hyran unveil aby bosom faithful tomb take tho new treasure to aby trust SEN r addressed the rong agat if 1 said from his earlie st r cambra b e had been taught by his mother to speak with reverence the name of aunt rachel middleton she was a very old and much valued friend of apostle richs family she mother and grandmother ile had learned to love and reverence her through the instructions of his mother and also from his own knowledge knowl edgo of bar many virtues for the excellent qualities which she possessed of head and hea r t and for the kind motherly coura sels and sound advice he ii baj received from her many times luring his acquaintance with liar had lived a pure life her firmness in the cause of god was great elie bad n into ity to the y of the gospe she embraced many years ago she has now gone to rest and has to herself a part in the resurrection of El derRich closed filsinger g discourse with a prayer that god would comfort the mourners and enable them to so live during the re mai U der of their natural live sasto entitle theato th go of again mother fon in the morning of the first resurrection and d ell forever with her brief and appropriate remarks were made b y elders D it stuart J rhom apson josefh parry and bishop robert 1 all of when endorsed the remarks of el der idich and spoke algo in high terms of commendation of the good works and co sistena life of molher I 1 eton ac cordin to tile knowle dg 0 they hid acquired of her throng h u with ber hie bierl bf erl ad 0 vor n ears at the 1 of thol ad ayears Ly I 1 he choir rendered in a very effective manner my father thou that dwal lest in that high and glorious place the was pronounced by elder theto m m of the deckas a d who vers present then tooka list fond look at tb familiar countenance of their old and beloved friend after which the flower coverer eaket containing the rem alus was placed in the baaree and the large cortege took up its march to ae ogden city cemetery where till that was mortal of mother rachel M addleton idd leton was committed to its last 11 19 e b f the pall bearers am charles W middleton frank middle ton reuben joshua middleton robert joseph middleton thomas E browning F ive of the above named are sons of president 0 F middleton the other is the son of clifton S brownin g esq rachel middleton was the daughter of henry and abigail walker she was bom july 17 on flat creek in the of Irginia on the ad of october 1832 she was married to reuben middlet grandfather of president 0 F ton in the fal of 1834 she was baptized by geo M hinkle the man who afterwards bet rayed the church into the hands of the mob at far west mo she gath pred wi tl i the church in the spring of I 1 about the time that the saints were driven out of clay county ale loch h when I 1 9 S ants gathered her husband reuben middleton died on the ath day of june 1945 with the pioneers she left nauvoo in the midst of winter 1 1840 crossing the wilder f 0 council biners she sha redall the hardships of the early saints la all their c hanges and vicissitudes and in isao she came to utah from conn ell bluffs in company edth liar n wd middleton and family in e r trials and hardships abe was f ai theal to all her ts wo a great comfort to the ale and a ic tile children the footsore and the w iry she was always with those who needed comfort and attention andin her greatest devoted to the amelioration hernier 01 tile afflict she was a good and kind nurse and many are today to day who bless her for devotion she was fond and was anay in this direction she made many flowered and was knitter she resided in og m the time of her arrival in utah until liar death since 1860 she has resided with the family ot clifton S browning and for the past two years during her most severe ill F ather wm Midd loton has beer constantly by her loed sido and has attended to liar every want it w ill be remembered that chas butler grandfather who X died in juno 1 l was the first per son burled in ogden cemetery remains now ll 11 to the same lot rhe bad lived more years than is generally to mankind she was about four years old when george ivashin the father of his court try dle rond tou in her suffering she would wonder wIly plis should be left in the world so long she wom out sin fe she has gone to find the sweet reft that comes to the faithful V weary she rests in peace and all aho vho knew her call her blessed |
