Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-24
OBITUARY.
JACOB uourA

SPRiSuvILLE, Dec. 1i.-One more OF
U ans good Old PIONEERS mas gone to his
mai rest. This last one is Jacob Hou z,
one OF tho early founders OF Spriugvlllr.
Last Friday, Dec. nth, he breathcd his
last, the cause bong extreme old age.
lie was jus; oighty-two years OF age;
was an ambi ious, hard. working man.
A few months ago, tho sickness which
finally proved his It>t, TOO hold OF HIM.
Several hundred psople attended Ihe
funeral services In the mee,ing house
and long lino OF mourncrs followed the
remains 10 the cemeicry on theh hill. The
principal speakers NJ the services were
Elders Frank, John and Phillip Boy or
and Charles Evan. They ull spoke in
high praise OF the respected dead
pioneer. Elder Evans especially bore
powerful testimony.
Jacob Houiz WAS born in Pouusyl-
wanna III lol4. He gave up nearly all mis-
property, iorsook friends and Kindred,
and went west with his family to gather
wi tho Mormons in early times. He
reached Utah in Sep ember, 1871, six
weeks af,er Tho Pioneer band entered
these valleys. Later on he fulfilled
missions to Germany and parts OF the
United States.
Tho deceased was the father OF Mrs.
Mary l.. snow, vile OF President
Lorenzo SNOW; was grandfather Of NJ. L..
Snow, editor Of the Brighatn tisp Bugier,
also of Mis-. Il. II. Peirce, Mrs. Virginia
stephen, Miss Birdie SNOW, Mrs. Ada
Williams ana Mrs. Minnie Nugent, all
Of Salt Lake City. and al OF " hom were
present al the funeral services.
a READER.
W. 5. MUIR.
w. S. Muir, who was among the first
settlers Of Bountlful. departed This life
Friday afternoon, Nov. 9Th, and was
buried on Tuesday.
Deceased had just returned from an
extensive trip through Idaho and south
ern Utaa where he had been visiting h :
children and the peopio whom he had
been the means OF bringing into ihe
Church while on mission, when he was
taken down with pneunonia. he was
sick in bed about week.
The funeral services were held In tho
West Bounliful meeting house. Prcst.
Hess, Ulcers Robert Patrick, Thomas
Dobson, Jshn w. Taylor, aud Bishop
Gram were the speakers.
Deceased was born On July 10. 1922 nj
Banuockbur scotland, about thirty
mites from Glasgow. In his early HE no
had hard struggle, working ifom early
morn until late NJ night, ge,tlng but two
hours schooling each night after his
days work had bssn completed. He
was warpcr by trade.
January LIST, ls4l, lie married Jane
Stewart Robb, BON having Joined the
Church about II year before their mar
ringe. The same ear they emigraled TO
Nuuvoo.
In March, lsi6. he lef for Winter
Quarters where no enlisted in the Mar
mon Ba talon and made tho famous
march to Los Angeles, on foot, a great
deal OF tho way barelooted. The tall oil
lsiS he returned to Council Bluffs where
he met his wife and to which place in
the meantime she had moved. In 1915
the family moved to these valleys and
the following year 10 BountiiuI which
has ever since been his home.
In the spriug OF 1905 ne left for Scot.
land on mission, returning the year oil
the move south. He went 10 H. Supply
10 start colony thore, aud was In
the Morrisite troubles in 1852. He took
"trip 10 Great Britain Ia 1887 to gather
geneaiogy. lie WIS the first post1astel
at Woods Cross, whore ho served ioi
twelve years.
In June, 1895, he was ordained 9
patriarch. He was a faithful aud sealou,
member oil the Church, ever Try ing TO DC
his duty.
He leaves twenty-one children seven.
ty-two grand and three great-gtand
children to mourn his loss.