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Show Community Pays Final Respect To Pioneer Davis in the first Retrenchment Association that was organized in Lehi and later in life Iras worked, in Relief Society as president and also as counselor to the president of Relief Societies both in the Manila jward and Pleasant Grove Third j ward. I She has always enjoyed her work jin the church and was very happy when helping someone or offering jan encouraging word, always ad-jmonishing ad-jmonishing everyone to do right and serve God. She passed peacefully away at her home on the evening of February 16, 1933. at 10 p. m., surrounded by jher entire family. She died in full I faith of the Gospel as she had lived jit during her entire life. She was loved and respected by all who knew her. n Sarah AV.anlass Atwood i Funeral services were held in the , Timpanogos stake tabernacle Sunday Sun-day at 2 p. m. with counselor to the Third ward bishopric in charge. The Third ward choir sang, "Come, Come, j Ye Saints". Invocation was offered by M. S. Christiansen, followed by a violin solo "O My Father" by Alfred Al-fred Swenson, accompanied by Gen-nieve Gen-nieve Fugal. ! A sketch of the life of the de-I de-I ceased was read by a grandson, Mill-len Mill-len Atwood. Lurena Johnson, rep-' rep-' resenting the Third Ward Relief ' Society and Mrs. Minnie Anderson, ' a former president of the Third ward 1 Relief Society, both spoke briefly. President W. W. Warnick said in part, Sister Atwood has had a busy life, but the past few years she has suffered much illness. I should like to pay tribute to Sister Ardena who has devoted her life to her mother. The rest of the family have done all they could but they have had then-own then-own responsibilities. We who have faith in God believe that he is interested in-terested in our progress. We do not worry about the storms we know ' that God is at the helm, and will successfully steer our bark throughout through-out life. In this death there will be a happy reunion of husband, children, chil-dren, relatives and friends on the otherside. I Stephen L. Chipman paid a high I tribute to Mrs. Atwood and her fam-I fam-I ily. Other speakers were James H. Walker, John M. Knight and W. W. Lim. Mrs. Ora Chipman rendered a solo and a duet, "Till The Resurec-tion Resurec-tion Day" was sung by George and Ivan Monson. Richard D. Wadley I pronounced the benediction and S. IL. Swenson dedicated the grave at j the City cemetery. Life Sketch of Sarah Wanlas's Atwood. Sarah Wanlass Atwood, the fourth child of Jackson Sr. and Jane Bell Wanlass, was born in Alston, Cumberland. Cum-berland. Co., England, May 10, 185S. At the age of three months she sailed with her parents for America. After a very tedious voyage they i landed in America, and later moved to Richmond, Missouri, where she resided until she was five years old. !At this age her mother died just as they were preparing to come to Utah. As it was the ambition of the mother to come to Zion she made the father promise that he would take the children to Utah. Sarah crossed the plains with her father and endured all the hardships that were encountered by those who j crossed the plains with ox teams. (This being doubly hard on accumt ;of not having the care of a mother iand not being with a company of I j Saints. j She landed with her father in Sa.lt Lake in the fall of 1863 and the .family moved to Lehi very soon after. I Her father died the next fall leaving leav-ing her an orphan when she was seven years of age. From this time on she was forced to care for herself. her-self. At first she went o Ji"e with the family of Dr. Harvey C. Hullin-gcr Hullin-gcr on Cottonwood, where she did errands and housework for her board and schooling. She rmniner here for pboiit seven years, liiter .returning t Lrhi, where i-V. viinin-!f1 viinin-!f1 with relatives and frii nds for a few years. ; She went from here to P:.H lal-e City win re :-he was employed in the home of Francis Armstrong, mayor of Salt Lake. It w.is here that .'lie met m;- Dsn A' wood, ako nr. em-pVyrp em-pVyrp 0f Arrn'rong. rnd was man-to! to him on October 8. 1877, in the Salt Lake Kndowrn'nt House by Eirff-r Dnnicl H. Wf lis. The follvvir:? tlnh'ren v.-i-ro b"rn to th'-m: Miil'ii V.' . 1 1 ; r; l n , Franeis Dan. Lawrence Mih r. John Is: he. Sarah D'-hh.:h, and Ardma J;.n", ah of whom survive her. IP r hu band and all h r brothers and fi.-frs hav-j ing preceded her into the Or'. at !-yrrd. !-yrrd. i On 'ha-' 20-h of Ot-.h'T. iJj;;7. with ' her bo-band and children, .-;, ny.v-ed ny.v-ed to Phsi ant Grove in what was thru th" Third ward, now Manila wsird. Th'-y ,,ureha-d the f,irm of, Eenja:r.:n Hslly. In tho:: days Manila Ma-nila ward was very s;jars'ly settl'-d and unimpravr d and :h'-y did their part in h'lping to break up the sago bru ii ar.d bund up the ward. ' Sarah Wa nines Atwood has al-j ways taken an active part in her religion. When a girl she was chosen chos-en as second counselor to Orinder i |
