Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-12
SURVIVING WIDOW
GUEST OF HONOR
Mrs. Agatha Pratt, in Seventy
Ninth Year, Attends Fam
lily Reunion.
CENTENARY OF HER HUSBAND.
Descendants Of Apostle Farley Il. lratt
Gather at Forest Dale Mceting'
house This Afternoon

Az the Forest Dale rneetlnghonse
this afternoon n large Assembly cl
descendants of the late Apostle Far
lev r. Pratt are celebrating his csnteh-
orv anniversary. AS the guest OF non
or there IA present his surviving wite'
Mrs. Agatha Pratt. the last OF thos"
who knew him intimately before mis-
untirnely death in 1857
The feature of the memorial pro-
pram is an address ON the LIE ana
work of Apostle Pratt by Elder Or-
son T.. whitney Preceding II a select
"a ohoi, from his descendants Will rem
der The hymn, Come, q Thou klh OF
Kings" composed by Elder Frat ana
during the exercises hnnlpsr OF ms
other wen known hymns Will be sung.
president Nephi Pratt OF the North
,,astern states mission will deliver an
.ddress Of welcome, in calling the fam
iIv reunion TO order, and this viii be fol-
Nv Nv a. few "reminiscences from Mrs
aeayba pratt az her husband.
Mrs. Pratt Is now in her seventy
ninth year, She is still hale and hearty
Sns,iie her advanced age, displaying
IN her remarkable vitality trait conn
mon TO the heroic women who crossed
he Mains in OK teams and shared tho
saIdshins OF life afield In Winter quar-
tfrs She Grove her own OK team To-
salt Late in the summer of ls47. ar
irving here along in the fall, Her de-
gcendants number seven children 4S
grandchildren, and 50 great-gratd-
children,
INCIDENTS OF EARLY DAYS.
when interviewed today, Mrs. Pratt
recalled many incidents OF her dis
lnguished husbands cancer both IN
public service and In his home life.
Amid all the poverty Of his early
surroundings" she declared, "he never
lost his temper. or reproYed person
IN a way 10 leave sting. AS father
ihe great delight of his life was 20
gather his children around his knees,
and have them sing TO him their child
fsh songs. which he dearly loved In
times OF famine, when he hardly knew
where the next meal was coming from
lie always had q meal TO spare to
hungry visitor, and perhaps the reason
for il was his unbounded faith IN Coo.
which made him absolutely trustiul OF
the future. His children number
thirty. of whom % survived him
Recalling the last mission on which
APOSTLE Pratt IVES called, and during
the fulGllment OF which he met nus
death, Mrs. Pratt said that she r.
y, el Il =, ~ hay IN AucuSt 1856. 20 tell
No. tbet he had been called on a
,,,jsston "a few DAYS later he came
w. tell me. she continued, ";hat he
10 70 'et g. +hn nresident-s office. and
= 81 J.sen sst apart for the mission
e@ld hy Brigham Young, John Taylor
INA .JedSdiah Grant He went 10
fest meeting I'M September, blassed
~ his chill dren who had been
ha ntized and named and blessed the
voiIn rest. who is now Mrs " u
Woods OF Ogden. After he lett we
heard from him often through lettels.
in which he spoke of his great LABOR
and Of the darkness in the minds OF
many people regarding the gospel IN
rne of these letters he expressed tile
idea that if it were not for the gospsl
and his family he could change Moriuss