Show PRESIDENT SMITH ANSWERS SUMMONS PRESIDENT OF CHURCH CLOSES remarkable CARt CAREER ilga AFTER LONG ILLNESS lead leader 1 in ach church Is and civic affairs ere broad it in his hi sympathies his HI passing paring will be sincerely M mourned ned by AM all creed at salt lake city joseph fielding smith sixth president of the church hurtti ot of jesus christ a of f L latter ter day batata died at 4 50 0 alc clock k 7 tuesday morning november 19 following an ills of several mouth months durn duration t I 1 get at which lie be had made a determined fight and had bad OR on several lons rallied to permit his ble appearance in 1 public tho end came peacefully my as he lay my at the official residence of th the church president surrounded by to members betos of my hlf family and church dig in ID ahe the death of president smith the tha s state mt loses one of 1 its best beat known knew and ad most constructive leaders lead era broad la in id bis sympathies in his him judgments and tolerant to a degree his passing will be mourned read by bj men inen of all creeds I 1 in utah and ad 1 in the far farling 1 ing lann alums of the church to he be had been a frequent liable I 1 uhe a church loses in his bis death the last of her lead leaders whose birth occurred prior to the settlement lement of the church 1 in utah president smith had just passed his bis eightieth birthday when the end ad came for r 17 years and 18 16 dava president sal smith th had bad been the supreme head bead of the mormon morman church to which he had devoted the greater part of his him life and for far which ial h he had endured crad in 1 his him earlier days hardships almost beyond the belief of the effae generation of golov today during ring his term the church has witnessed the greatest prosperity of its history more meeting it houses hea hn e president joseph fielding smith been constructed td to in the cou course rf r of f him big regime than dom were built during the entire previous history of the organize ahn while smith la is know cnown principally as the churchman that he be well lie leaves leave behind him a an enviable record as aa a public doti citizen he named several in tenon 1 in the territorial rod and early state was a president of the constitute constitutional I 1 assembly melv and served nerved several beveral terms in the salt lake laka city cam council aa 0 well as one ter term to in the alivo ell ol of provo to J joseph 1 ph I Fl fielding flooding smith wag 1 buth buin bora F far at west caldell county ill mo no vember member 13 1838 he was the BOB 0 of hi hiaam rum smith and ad mry mary fiel dl rg smith SIAM his childhood days were spent amid mid scenes of persecution end ad hard ship which resulted 1 in ill alic death of his father and him ale a le the prophet jo joseph eph smith J june 27 1844 A ith hll his widowed mothe who oho left no nauvoo a aa an exile in 1816 he be drove an ox team 1 for ler her across I 1 the h I 1 state star of 1 iowa to tt ain inter t ce teri r here ill the a family mp t the winter of he wea wa then dlen only 8 years yeara of age ae but while at winter quarters vas employed mi a I a herd held bov bar and ad it 1 Is slid 14 that do during ring clr time that hie bot was herding cattle tile at winter quarters and of after him hia archal in salt lake he I 1 never r lost a hoof beef on tho the death of george Q ra a I 1 in april 1 in california joseph av F S smith till acted as first con counsellor IS sen to president sno snow the latter died 0 oc tober 10 1901 vahon W hn the first presidency of the church and the me twelve ve apostles met on october 17 joul alie t te first presidency C w wa 1 reorganized with till T F smith at as president john R winder as fl first rat counsellor and anthem IL lund as a second counsellor |