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Show 273 large eyes bulge slightly, and the lower portions of his face are covered by a snowy mustache which flows into a long, white Lorenzo Snow style beard. His 82nd birthday had been noted only a few days earlier by his family, and he had characteristically "responded with a fatherly blessing for all." The article made much of the fact that he was proud of his descent from Revolutionary families and that in his own pioneer life he had exemplified the fine characteristics of his forebears. This tender and charitable treatment of his life, plus the detail regarding his survivors almost leads us to believe that Ellis herself wrote the article. Notice how protective and carefully worded the following is: "He was a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania and as a physician he early recognized the need of care of health and sanitation. At one time he was the editor and publisher of the Salt Lake Sanitarian." Ellis, in Her Diary, provided a short eulogy, written as part of her late autobiography quite a number of years after her husband's passing: The honored husband and father, after years of faithful, loving kindness and leadership in Gospel truths, passed beyond on the 15th day of March 1918. Yes, he was mortal, but at heart ever true to his convictions of Right.7 |