I Pioneer Settler Dies i I lEnds Ends Church WorM Work Work t I I II i ti r c z-Y- z Ny xi 7 s f d j WM y J 1 h i w oj n y Mt A r u fY 1 x W JO II I P n. 1 JOSEPH E. E TAYlOR BOWS HEAD UNDER WEIGHT OF MANY YEARS HARD TOIl Pioneer Undertaker Leaves In Instructions Instructions Instructions In- In as to Manner of Funeral Following an illness of oC four our weeks Joseph n. n Taylor Tarlo pioneer undertaker of or Salt Sali Lake and fi it resident of oC Utah for the past sixty ct years cari died lied at the family residence 17 r. r First South at J o'clock yesterday o morning Death was due to complication complications resulting i-c- i re re- sui suiting primarily from Crom old age e. F For r the time past two weeks he lie had been confined confined con con- fined to his Ills be bed Mr Mi Ta Taylor lor Wa was the tue son of oC George e Edward Grove Gro 10 Taylor anti and Ann nn Wicks s Jck Ta Taylor and amid wa was wag born orn December r l' l 11 Ii ISHO O at Sussex England s few years later hater tile Taylor ra family moved 1110 to the birthplace of C Mrs ray Tay lor br Mr 11 Taylor spent hl his boyhood and amid early earh- youth Later the time family amil moved mo to Hull in jn Yorkshire lie became a member of oC the Mormon church August 1 11 I. I 13 iS and two months later hater was called to missionary work in iii Lincolnshire In Janu January r he lie emigrated to America hut but was as coin coin- to stop at St. St Louis until tile the I following year because of Illness He lie HeI I arrived etl In Salt Lake September f 0 G l n Church Work ork Mr tr Taylor r resumed s his iU s In church affairs after aCter his arrival In Utah and amid in 1853 1553 became a member of or the bishopric of or the Eleventh gle ward acting as counsellor to Bi Bishop hoJ John Lytle Irtle In lit the tile year ear 18 5 he lie was called to hi his s second elond mission for tOl the tho church chUlch Th The se e following following- year he lie was called home t to o become Identified with the time presidency of or the Salt Lake stake tako which at that tha t time covered six counties countIe Salt alt l. I Lake Da Davis DaIs Is Morgan an Wasatch rasa an and andS S Summit ii nun it Durin During his sixty years Years' residence h In 11 i Salt alt Lake Mr Talo Taylor followed a a. number nume num hum ber e bf bC vocations including ranching farming Canning furniture making and taking Ho lit was an undertaker Cot forty years ears For thirty years he lie was cit city y sexton Mr 11 Ta Taylor lor was vas als also a representative Oe in thc the second state legislature legisla I ture and amid a n member l' l of the tho board hoard o nf oC f trustees of oC the L 1 L. L D. D S S. S university until l i his death la Since Sirlee April 2 2 1 1901 90 t 1 he lie has he been 11 a patriarch of ot the Mormon church Mr r. r Taylor Talo had five e wives Twenty onO children cn survive sUr him He lie also l leaves leave s two to sisters Mrs Mr lr Margaret A. A Goodman Goodman Good Good- man nan of or St St. David AtI Art Aria Artand and Mrs s Martha Little of or Hayden Ida lua fifty grandchildren g g i-a i nd ci u I I d re m m a an arid ii a ii thirteen u 1 m- m mt t e n great grea reat- reat t grandchildren ren Len left I No u funeral arrangements have han bee been n made pending the tire receipt of ot word from trum Mrs Goodman Prior to hl ills his death Mr Taylor drew ess' rew up Instructions fo for hi his s funeral and burial Extracts from these follow fullow I I 1 desire that by three sons somis Samuel amuel M. M Alma O. O nn timid and M. M L shall have exclusive cha charge e of ot my horl hotly body and all allor of or my nw funeral and anti burial anan Crom first to last I I desire that but a short time shall elapse c between m my death and burial Let Lct my lily funeral be altogether without without without with with- out ostentation and unnecessary c cre- cre re- re mOil mony No 0 black clothing as emblems of oC mourning Is needed Let tho funeral vice service be e brief For if It I have devoted dc without an re i-c- i serve sere every po power er of hod body and mind mindin in ill our OUt Fathers Father's service eT which I have ha I en endeavored t to tp do such Ruch devotion is I a avery avery er very poor acknowledgment o of the I Ier blessings s 1 have already ad received through h the gospel ospel nil and the promises I given Jhn to me mile in the time holy covenant CO therefore therdore I deserve no praise praise nothing nothing but recognition I TI 1 I