The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-18

crowd, and SLOWLY and laboriously the
twelve apostles made their way from.
the hearse TO the grave, bearing their
precious burden, Some OF them are old
men and the -casKet was, heavy, but
they never faItered.
The scasSet WAS placed in the box and
the lid was fastened down. The pail
bearers grasped the long straps that
slowly into the grave.
As the Dox sank from sight the quar-
tette, led by Professor Evan Stephens.
sang Come. Ye Disconsolate' This
started the tears afresh from the eyes
of the mourners. Women shook with
sobs, and children too small to COM
prehend the full nearing of the scene
felt its ifnpressfVenesS and joined their
childish Weeping to the sobs of their
Prayer by Apostle I.und.
Bishop Winder announced tlat
Apostle Anton II. Lund would offer
prayer. Standing at the head of the
oTsen grave and close b. the low and
massive Cannon monument, Apostle
Lund, with both hands raised, invoked
God to consecrate the grave that had
Just recsiNed the ilIustrious ashes. He
spoke of President Cannon as h noble
example for the living, asked that the
family be comforted, and called upon
God TO protect the remains and = the
grave from the FaVageS of the elements.
lows Home ward f w Joseph +. Taylor,
the funeral directors requested that in
re turning all the teams. shouid' be. driven
slowly. There was q. pause during
which Bishop Winder conferred in tSw
tones with members of the family. He
then announced that the family wished
him 10 thank for them All the friends
for the sympathy ana interest they. had
shown, and for the quiet way in which
the crowds had co1aEcted themselves
There was q moment of silence, dur
ing which the crowd stood about-as if
enlbarr sSed. Then a pair of NvOrkTnen
in overalls and jumpers moved back
one OF the planks that lay at the edge
J of the grave ana thereby sent a number
/ of Jumps of earth rattling and clatter-
! ing down upon. the. box below With
heads boweds and eyes dimmed the
! mournerS WATCHED the Worklnen with
! their Iong-handled- shoyels rapidly
! throw in the earth until the grave was
( hlled andFthen pat down and level the
! top.
This done. the floral tributes were
brought from the carriages one by one
and laid upon the grave. The huge
crescent and Tyre and the urn lowered
! near the( center the floral book given
! by the sunday schools stood at-the foot
while other pieces We're piled in, WITT
Iloose flowers filing the fntersticeS IN
! til not an inch Of the fresh earth could
4 be seen. ~ s4.s
BY this time it WAS AveII after
/ o'clock. For a. few minutes the MOURN
i erss gazea at the high mass of f1oweTs
4 and some stopped 60 pluck a BLOSSOM on
/ two to carry away in memeRto. Then 2
I way Was opened through sthe,eiy3wd 'ane
/ a Sorrowful procession, led by two rg-
J ures yelled and ROBBED in black, made us
way To the carria ges. The vehicle:
1 moved slowly away, the Grove
dyindled and ere nightfall there was
\ left only an officer guarding the grar -
against the Vandals that might seek &
steal the flowers, Except for the ba1f
of flowers there was little TO disringuist
this grave from the resting placesfn thi
vicinity of others far humber and al
i most unknown in life Were the now
ers gone there would be left to mari
this spot only a plain unpafnted pin'
board bearing IN black5stenciled Jet
\ ters the name, George O. Cannon.