Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-03
DEATH on JESSE ". FOX.


Jesse W. Fox, ono OF tho rorri,ofy's
pioneer ciuzuus, passed peacefully iiOn
mortality at B.uutiiul sunday morn.
Tug, Apnl lot NJ 7!i0, wnilv On a Ufioi
visit 20 that place Elder Fox was 70
years OF age ON Saturday last and iu
the afternoon Ui that day no went 20
B0untiiul, and was AZ tho house Of HE
wife sarah Elizabeth FCs', aud their
daughter Charlotte j, Fox. They did
nll In their power 10 relieve him Of his
suilerings, and realizing that hc was Ia
a very dangerous condition Sister
FOX obtained mis- consent 10 send fur
hi daughter Mrs. Gsprgiana aud her
husband Hyrum =. Young, and hi-
son, Jesse W, Fox, Jr., VINO arrived
iu time for him 90 tee gus ami talk
With them each. Hc passed away as
u going 10 sleep, giving his son fare.
well clBsp Of tue hand ~ hls spirit took
It's departure. HiHilIutfs was very brief
and the immediate cause u drntn was
neuralgia u the heart, His body was
brought TO Salt Lake SUNDAY aud his
funeral Will bee held from the Assembly
Hall tomorrow Wednesday, afternoon
beginning at O'Clock.
jesse Williams Fox, sou Of Samuel
ana Lucy Williams Fox, was born on
March 3lst, 1873, near Adams Centre,
Jefferson County, Now York. lie wAs
tenth child Of q family VI ten sons
and three dnughlcfs, lie had an
academic education and taught school
IA Jefferson County, New York, and at
other places, He was the companion
OF James Keep In their boyhood. The
latter being bound out, was oppressed,
when young FoX's sympathies led him
% aid him 10 30 10 Canada, which WINS
the stepping stone 10 the teuow ned
Kccp'- financial power.
He emur ced the Gospel early Ia the
f0ttles and reached NauvOo, I'M.
nois, only Ia time 10 REQ the
remains OF the matlyfpd Prophet Rni
Patriarch, Joseph and Hyrum smith,
they having previously closed their
eyes In death. From TINS TINS on lac
followed bis iavoriie occupation, school
teaching. Win his co.religionisls OF the
Church, he len Nauvoo Aud came 10
Winter Quar,ers,temaininy there until
the spring Of 1871, when he was sent
uy Pres dent Young 10 his old home
Ina New YORK ON mission In hope
that the change OF climate aui scenes
would recruit his health. 10 Il not 10 De
wondered that Brother FuX'H health
had failed, when We realize tho scenes
" want aud Suffering through
which the people OF the Church
passed from tbs hour Of the martyrdom
to the spring VI 47-whtn We
reulizs the strong sympathlns OF Broth.
rr Fox. The facts are, although pos.
sussei Of ample MEANS Tor his own
| comfort aud support ne shared with
tho rlll lCted people every thing he
POSSESSED and would have died had not
the Lord prompted His servant 10 send
him on a misaion 20 New York. AZ
It was, no dld good work, aud hap.
tied number OF his kindred and
other prominent people Into the Church.
In thespring of 1919 he again Joined
the Saints, juurnUyiDg westward, al
Council Bluff, where on the 2ni OF
June OF that year he WAS married 10
En2t j. Clubs by the late Apostle Geo.
A. Smith. He was organized In the
company OF Captain Gully's
hundred ana William Miller.
MY. When the train reached
the L1up Folk they we're attacked by
the terrible soourge OF cholera, which
followed In the wake OF the Call.
fornla gold seekers, many OF whom died
on the b9all on tue Missouri