Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-23
MOSES THATCHER
Dies At LOGAN {. |N
After Extended Illness He Passes
Away Saturday
Night.

SURROUNDED BY RELATIVES.
Funeral viii be Held Thursday
Rricf sketch Of nj, Event
full Career.
| Moses Thatcher Is dead. The end
came shortly after II o'clock Saturday
summer home in Logan canyon which
| proved 50 helpful to him last year. This
summer lie was taken to the .ison
as soon as the weather would permit
l#but he was practically an invalid all
the time. 1t was seen some time ago
that his condition WAS becoming more
serious each week, but news Of the
raal condition Of Mr.. Thatcher was not
made pub as twas felt that 1t would
result il. many calls being mate which.
would disturb him. When his condi-5
L ton became critical slle was brought.
ITO Logan, and on Friday last, the.
doctors gave up all hope of prolonging
his life more stnan a day or tyvo.5 Word
was I hen sent out to all the relatives
some OF whom live In Salt Lake City
and many Of then, We're present at the
bedside when he passed ava Y. W. 9.
The funeral vii be held at the Logan !,
4Tabernacle Thursday afternoon at q
10 clock, and an attempt Is being made
Sto have Elders Orson 81 Whitney and
John Henry Smith among the speakers
at the funeral. The formerais in Canada
and the latter is said to be at Bear
Lake, attending the reunion Of the
Other prominent churchmen will alsn5S
be present \.
BIoGRAPHIcALs SKETCH.
Moses Thatcher was Il he son of Heze.l
kali Thatcher and Alley Kitchen, being
the. sixth Of a. family of eight sons He
was bornsin Sangam mon count W, him ts.
Feb. I; 2. 1s42.. and as q child witnessed
the violence OF the nobs which led up
to the expulsion of the Latter-day
Saints from Nanvoo. o resist which his
father made strenuous efforts. hen5
aSlittle overs4 years of afse he. made
the journey across he plains with MS
father. reaching Salt La Ike va ley soon
5afterthe Pioneers had blazed the ttai
slI1s3 the spring III 1913 Ms's,
California by his father ching wilat
is now Sacramento. in June OF that
wear, In the mining district near Atl-s
Sh1rn, while his fat Their kept a n eat, 81
house, the Z boy received good wages
from travellers by I king care OF thelr
horses He also did IA little mimi s on
his own account. I In thisaway he spent
the following eight years. and at tins TINS
ag e of he i,ega to hink (, q. eduea-
ton. and esentual) S laid the fonnsdsl-
ton oSs eiascsass
ton. ps II 5;32 5
& III those days the elders of, the,
Church called ON and ireceiye aid from Y pm
Hezekiall Tllatche the ather. and g
Moses was delighted 40 listen; to their
h 81 his baptism BY Elder Henry G.:
BOYLE. .Dec. %. - $50, lin the Rio q Puta,s
fYolo county. California. He was con
firmed the same day and .onRsS Marcn
523. following he was ordained an elder
"A month later he was called OIL a ms :;
I sion. He was then only ~ boy OF l y.
years &c, and some of the most val al:
liable experiences Of his life are re-
corded about this time.
IN THE MOVE SOUTH.
His mission was terminal ted by the,
teal home which was issued by Bril- 81
ham Young on the approach of . ohm
tEtOn
| pany with John B. That cher and Aaron.
ID. Thatcher, Moses fitted up teams and
wagons and started for Salt Lake
i$rity. arriving there January 1. 1875.
Fora short time thereaf ter Moses Went
to school and after the establi shn'snt
of Camp Floyd. he became ~ me- fnber3
of the special police force of Salt Lake,
civ. In the move, the Thatcher
| family went. south as far as Payson,
and in 1850 Moses went with his fa-t
1Sther to Cache valley, where he assist
ed in getting timber out for the Union
| mills. During the winter 3ief 1s60-6l,
he attended the university of Desereti
and in April, 1851. he was married - fe
| Lettie Farr, previous to which he had
been ordained a seventy by President
Brigham Young. Shortly after his
marriage he built tho first frame house
in Logan. He. herded cattle onaSthe
Promontory during the winter of 1851
62, and assisted in experimenting In;
dams who had killed several men at
Smithfield. + s
MISSION TO EUROPE,
e In April, 1866, he went on a mission
to Europe, returning In 1858, during
which time he presided over the Cfel-,
tenfam and Birmingham conferences.
On returning he entered the mercantile
business forming the firm of Thatcher
| " son. Wnlcn !llteTlsNFaSl merged Win
1.-The business of w. II. Shearrnan and
Ibecame the Logan Coop, with Moses
! Thatcher as Its manager. When the
Utah Northern Railway was organized.
August, 1870 he was chosen director
and secretary. Later he became SUI
perintendent. He was also chosen SUI
perintendent of the Cache valley sun
day schools, which position he occupied
until April. 1917. He served Cache and
Rich counties for 10 years in the ter
ritoral Legislative council and was an
active member Of the constitutional
| convention of 1872. When the Cache
Valley stake was organized, May 81,
1877, Moses Thatcher was made presi-
dent, which position he held until April
| o. 1872 when he was ordained an apos-
tie by President John Taylor, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of
Orspn Hyde.
WORK IN MExICo.
In October. 1879, he went on his first
mission to Mexico, being accompanied
| by Elder James a. Stewart and Milton
| G. s6Trejo, He went to the Mexican cap
l5ital on his second mission the following
| wear. returning In 1881 after losing his