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has madp william atkiw*SAMUEL ALLEN WILCOX.Samuel Allen Wilcox Sen., died of paralysis at Cedar Fort. Utah county, Utah, April 7, 1898. Deceased was born March 22* 1819* In York state, St.Lawrence county, making him seventy* nine years and fifteen days old. He embraced the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the 14th of September* 1839, and moved to Commerce afterwards called Nauvoo, October 9. 1840. He and his faithful wife, Martha, endured many of th* trials and persecutions which the Saints passed through at Nauvoo. He w'as personally acquainted with the Prophet Joseph and Hytum Smith and often bore testimony of their divinity as such. He has held positions of trust and honor in the Church. At the Wme of his death was a High Priest, had belonged to the twenty-seventh quorum of Seventy* and wTas counselor to Bishop Ell Bennett.Brother Wilcox leaves a posterity of ten sons* ten daughters* sixty grand-sons, twenty-seven granddaughters, and twenty-eight great-grandchildren, making a grand total of one hundred and thirty-five. His two wives alsosurvive him. „Saturday, April 9th, the Cedar Fort meeting house was crow’ded with relatives and friends wrho had met to pay their last reepecte to Father Wtlcox, Elders Hacking and Peterson and Blfch-op Bennett each bore testimony to the integrity, honesty and faithfulness of Brother Wilcox, saying he has been n friend to the friendless and a father to the fatherless. The word* Father’* was therefore appropriately Inscribed upon the silver plate placed upon hlfl coffin.... r i r n a TiTrT^n nrtDnOM
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Salt Lake City Deseret Weekly
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sat, May 07, 1898
Page 26
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Bonnie W.
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