Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-15
THE FUNERAL OF
BISHOP RAWLINS
Largely Attended by Friends From
City and County This Afternoon
SERVICES MOST IMPRESSIVE
Municipal aud County officials Were
Inferred In isis Home Cemetery.
[spEcIAL To THE oNEWsHl

ESPECIAL TO THE "NEws."l
Murray, oct. 1.-THE funeral services
over the remains Of the late Bishop
Joseph S. Rawllns were held this af-
teruoon at the South Cottonwood meet
ing house attended by large cOncourse
OF people
II was o'clock when the meeting
house was opened and long before that
hour enough people were on the outside
to more than twice i'll the building.
The consequence was that when the
doors were finally opened numbers were
unable TO gain admission. At 1890 to-
day four large conyeyances drove away
from the City and County building, all
being quickly filled by city ana county
officials deputies and clerks who were
driven to the late residence OF the
esteemed bishop in South Cottonwood
There a last look Of the dead was taken
after which a procession was formed
and marched 10 the meeting house
which Is only a short distance from the
family residence Of the deceased
Undertaken Joseph L. Taylor had
charge Of the funeral arrangements, the
palbearers being John c. Labrum,
Henry Bird, James Gilbert Henry
Brown, Joseph Thompson and William
Atwood Among those who came from
Salt Lake City were Mayor Thompson,
Commissioners Whitaker and Woolley
Judge Hlles, County Attorney Putnam,
Auditor Wood, Treasurer Lynch, Re-
cordcr Jensen, Superintendent Whipple,
OF the County Inhmary. Sheriff How
ellis. Chief Deputy John Montgomery,
Jr.. Councilmen Thomas Hewlett. Hart-
enstein Cottrcll. Read and Tudden-
ham. Fruit Tree Inspector Sorenson,
Chief Janitor Siddoway, Land and
Water Commissioner Westerheld. city
Treasurer Morris. Chief Deputies Little
and Blair and many others.
The meeting house was beautifully
and tastefully draped, and the floral
emblems were large and profuse In
numbers.
on the stand were Presidents George
O. Cannon, Joseph +. Smith. President
Angus NJ Cannon. President Frank \,
Taylor. Bishop John II. Winder, Bishop
n. L. Empey, Bishop George Romney,
Elder James Sharp. Judge LcGTand
Young Mayor Thompson PatrIarchs
John Crook and lshmael Phillips. and
many Bishops and counselors OF neigh
boring wards. President Frank Y.
Taylor presided. and the meeting COM
menced by the choir singing the
Resurrection Morn" Prayer was
offered by Bishop Phillips of Union.
Singing, There Is Sweet Rest In
Heaven
The first speaker was Elder John
Wheeler, the late Bishops FIRST coun-
selor, who spoke Of his intimate ac-
quaIntance with the deceased extending
over a period Of twenty years. and tes-
titled OF his many sterling qualities.
He was said the speaker, an honest
man. a broad minded man. a man that
ala much for the people Of this COM
monWealth.
County Commissioner NJ. S. Woolley
followed I'm a few brief but eulOgistc
remarks concerning the deceased.
Said the speaker as a husband he
was kind. as a father impartial, as a
citizen upright, just and progressive,
as a Bishop a father, as public officer
his course was always upright. just and
equitable Ills death was the conclu-
sion Of a well spent life For the future
there was no doubt as 10 the condition
Of Bishop Joseph Sharp Rawlins.
Blsho. John r. Winder was the next
speaker and In behalf Of the Bishogric
OF the Church he conveyed 20 the fam
ily Of the deceased his heartfelt SYM
patty for the loss sustained by the
death Of so noble. so true and so good
a man as Joseph 5. Rawlns
President Angus NJ Cannon followed
and said the public would miss Bishop
Rav1ins But" said me- ~ c1ncratr-
late him upon his departure from this
world lie win come forth as an inn
mortal being and rise with the Just on
the morn Of the FIRST resurrection. The
deceased was the worthy follower Of
ihe Savior, and at all times proved him
self faithful 20 his several callngs"
lnterment was In the South Cotton
wood cemetery.