The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-11
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The funeral services over the re-
mains of Mrs. Johannah Hall were
held yesterday afternoon in the Sec
ond ward meeting house. Bishop Nc
Quarrie presided and Charles j. Lind
quest was funeral director. The
hearse, horses and casket were white,
just as for the funeral of babe. The
casket was made by the old lady's pm,
Mark, she having requested that his
hands should construct it just as they
had years ago fashioned the one in
which her husband and his father was
laid away. 1t was a strange funeral.
Hardly a tear was shed, but their alb
sence was not due to lack of love, for
Mrs. Johannah Challis Hall was loved
and honored as few women have ever
been. For nearly a hundred years she
had lived, and all the while she had
been unconsciously teaching people to
love and revere her character.
When homeless unknown dies and
is buried, there may be no mournerS
and no tears, yet even then their alb
sence seems lncongruous and piriful.
But here where half the seats were
filled with relatives of the dead there
was none who lost sight of the fact
that her death was but the consumma
no tears to be shed for the good fight
that had been fought or the faith that
had been kept.
And yet some expressed and all felt
that there was kind of poetic in
justice in her death-a sense of incom-
pleteness in that few months more
were denied her so that her life might
have spanned an even century. Her
daily life was pleasant; it was sweet
ened with health and intelligence, and
warmed by love and affection. Her
memories were embittered by no re-
grets; her hopes disturbed by no
But suddenly she slept-and did not
wake. Why could not the final SUM
Der have been postponed yet little
while? Why could she not have lived
to an even hundred years instead of
SO years, l month and days? But
she was dead and yet if one of those
who looked on the peaceful counten-
ance could have known absolutely that
a single word would have brought her
back to life the word would not have
been uttered. Her face seemed to be
typical of peace and rest. 1t was i'm
possible when gazing at it to think Of
her as one who had borne the brunt
of nearly five score years.
AT the meeting house Warren G..
Child offered the opening prayer after
the choir had sung Mourn Not the
Dead" Nearer My God to Thee" was
the second hymn. Elder Joseph Hall
then spoke at some length and with
much feeling. He told of the vast in
dustrial, scientific and CONNER
cial changes that had come be-
fore the eyes of this one wo-
| man. In 1897 there was not a
railroad nor even a steam boat. A
hundred miles or so west of the New
Hampshire township Goschen, where
Johannah Challis was born, was a
country peopled only by savages if
peopled at all. Telegraph and tele-
phone systems were utterly undream-
ed of. In the old world too changes
had gone on. Kings had won crowns
and lost them; dynasties had risen and
fallen; India and Africa had been
opened up to civilization and COM
merce. History had repeated and re-
peated itself. Men had been born, be-
come famous and been forgotten all
while she was alive.
Elder Charles F. Middleton spoke
feelingly of the filiai love and affection
exhibited by the relatives of the de-
ceased not only at this time but in
years gone by.
The closing hymn was Farewell all
| Earthly Honors.' John Scowcroft
pronounced the benediction.
The pail bearers were close relatives
of the deceased, namely: George w
McKeown Joseph H. Hall, John Salter
A. Y. Mowry, Milton Berry and Rufus
Guner. The remains were taken to
the city cemetery and inferred be-
side those of her husband who died
here many years ago.