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Show SKETCH OF AN ELDER'S 19 LIFE. earth, and you shall not have power fo breath another We have been driven from our homes and so have breath. We have come out here to do you good and not to injure you. We are the Lord's people, and .so are you; but you must you. The Lord is displeased cease your murders and wickedness. You with it and will not prosper you if you continue in it. to the think you own all this land, this timber, this water and all You do not own one thing on earth, not even these horses. the air you breathe. It all belongs to the Great Spirit." In the latter part of June, 1848, Elder Tanner fitted up five and with eighteen months' provisions, Lake, celebrating the 4th of July, on the Elk teams and wagons, started for Salt Between Wood River and Laramie a six year old grand-son fell from the tongue of a wagon loaded with about :3,500 pounds. Both wheels passed obliquely over his bowels, Horn. With the exception of this and he died in twenty minutes. sad accident, the jonrney was prosperous, and he arrived in Salt Lake Valley on the 17th of October, and located in South Cottonwood. In the Autumn of 1849, he was afflicted more or less with rheumatism, which continued to increase on him till the first ·of January, 1850, when he was confined to his bed and suffered .severely until the 13th day of April, when he died "the death He was the father of twenty children, and Of the righteous." has left an example worthy of imitation by his numerous posterity and by the youth of Zion everywhere .. |
