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Show Niels Peter Nielson Died at Indianola Niels Peter Nielson, one of Mount Pleasant's leading farmers for many years, died at Indianola on Saturday May 17th at 5 o'clock p. m., at the home of son, Arelius. Mr. Nielson had been suffering with kidney troubles for some t.me. Mr. Nielson was born at Over-gards, Over-gards, Orhes, Denmark, Sept. 8, 1846. He came to Salt Lake City in the year 1866 and moved to Ephraim shortly afterwards. He went to Spring City and opened up the first-store first-store at that place and lived there until 1881 when he moved to Mt. Pleasant. and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He lived at Mount Pleas-snt Pleas-snt until recently wh in he sold his large farm and moved to Indianola. Mr. Nielson leasee a wife and five children. The children are: Mrs. Cyrus Seely of Scofield, Nathaniel Nielson of Rupert Idaho, A. H. Nielson Niel-son of Salt Lake Citv, Arelius Nielson Niel-son of Indianola, and Mrs. Jess Kane of Vermillion. The body was brought to Mount Pleasant and placed in the Undertaking Under-taking Parlors of Bent Hansen & Co. to await the time of burial on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Funeral services were conducted in a peculiar manner at the ceme-tary. ceme-tary. There was no meeting held as is the usual custom at funerals. No prayers were offered and no music rendered. It was a spiritless ceremony. cere-mony. Mr. Nielson had written a few of the principals which he believed be-lieved in and personally requested Chas. Kofford of Spring City to read them at the grave at the time of his burial so that his friends who came to show theirlast respect to him mightknow what his belief was. Mr. Kofford in a trembling manner, read the last words of Mr. Nielson to his friends on earth. In it, Mr. Nielson boldly denounced Christianity Christi-anity and the Wark of Christ stating stat-ing that it was harmful to humanity and retarded their progression. He did not believe the Bible, the story of the flood, of. Lazaras, of Daniel or the divinity of the Lord and Savior, Sav-ior, Jesus Christ. Yet, in all the bold declarations which Mr. Nielson made, the man he had chosen to read his last words made use of many expressions of the bible during the ceremony. The body was laid away in a cement ce-ment vault cealed with the strength of the material used. It was the first burial of the kind in the city and it cast a peculiar feeling over his Christian friends who witnessed it. |