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D nty. th1s Id a gall, .ent, the It In was . He :. He and ~ 102 )nary the 1 organ ~anC7 of Rich, Yn 1 per~ount7 1. An- larrled >neof Ie late BIOGRAPHIES 181 built a successful produce business In Morgan. They are also establlshed In the dairy business and farming. Joaeph Olark (eldest son of Ezra) related that one spring when his father was delIvering a load of flour from his Morgan MID that In DevUs Gate the leaders of his four yoke of oxen headed off the road to get a drink from the river. The wheelers pushed. them Into the raging flood water and the only survivor was the driver, Ezra. . When a young man Ezra gave the Prophet Joseph Smith some money In his need, and Joseph said to him, "My boy, you will never lack for this world's goods." He never did. One of the most valuable things that Ezra T. Olark left to the world and his posterity was his testimony of the Prophet Joseph SmIth, of which a small part follows: ''1 heard Joseph preach many times, heard him the last sermon he ever delivered. • . . I was one who heard his voice and know that he spoke like an angel from Heaven. I never heard hlm speak with more power than then and I have heard him many times. I was satisfied. I knew him ti be a prophet of Ood. I heard him prophesy many times and had seen his prophecies fulfilled, and also shook hands with him and he had blessed me. I felt the influence and power of the Lord upon him and upon me. and I have never forgotten that bleBBing from that day to tb1I, and I never shall. Two days later the Prophet was martyred, and two or three weeks later, when the saints held a conference aDd BrIgham Young &rose as leader of the Ohurch, I want to bear record that be spote as Joaeph used to speak, and to all appearances, the same voice, the aame gesture. the same stature, and I bear this record In aU the world ••• and also bear record that this work 18 God's work, and that It W1ll ron on as It has done from that day to this."