Deseret News June 18, 1898
MARGARET D. REES
Wales, Sanpete County, May 27, 1898.
-Our little settlement was overshadowed with gloom this morning by the death of our beloved sister, Margaret D. Rees, who passed away at 9 o'clock a.m., May 23, 1898. If she had lived until Nov. 1st she would have been 80 years old, but old age and general debility gave death a chance to prey upon her system, and separate for a time the spirit from its earthly tabernacle.
She leaves behind her eight children, seventy-one grandchildren, eighty-eight great grandchildren, along with many friends to mourn her loss. She was born in Carmarthen, Wales, England, November 1, 1818. She joined the Church in the year 1842, being one of the first to embrace the Gospel in that locality. She emigrated to Utah in 1855, pulling her handcart thirteen hundred miles from Iowa City to Salt Lake. Her early days in utah were spent in Ogden and Spanish Fork. She moved to Wales, Sanpete county, in 1859, where she lived until her death.
As a Saint she always showed her willingness to obey the counsel of the authorities and by so doing she was able to live the life of a faithful Latter-day Saint. She loved the Gospel she espoused insomuch that she was willing to leave the home of her birth and sacrifice all for the Gospel sake. All who knew her can but say, that she loved to do good and was a staunch defender of the principles of Mormonism, because they were her honest convictions ingrafted upon her, from the time she heard the Gospel in her native land.
Her testimonies of the truth were unquestioned, and cuased many to reflect and investigate it. in defending the Gospel she was always minful not to hurt the feelings of those who were religiously opposed to her. We all mourn her loss, but we know that she has gone to rest but a short time, when she will rise in the morning of the first resurrection and recieve her reward with the faithful.
MARGARET D. REES
Wales, Sanpete County, May 27, 1898.
-Our little settlement was overshadowed with gloom this morning by the death of our beloved sister, Margaret D. Rees, who passed away at 9 o'clock a.m., May 23, 1898. If she had lived until Nov. 1st she would have been 80 years old, but old age and general debility gave death a chance to prey upon her system, and separate for a time the spirit from its earthly tabernacle.
She leaves behind her eight children, seventy-one grandchildren, eighty-eight great grandchildren, along with many friends to mourn her loss. She was born in Carmarthen, Wales, England, November 1, 1818. She joined the Church in the year 1842, being one of the first to embrace the Gospel in that locality. She emigrated to Utah in 1855, pulling her handcart thirteen hundred miles from Iowa City to Salt Lake. Her early days in utah were spent in Ogden and Spanish Fork. She moved to Wales, Sanpete county, in 1859, where she lived until her death.
As a Saint she always showed her willingness to obey the counsel of the authorities and by so doing she was able to live the life of a faithful Latter-day Saint. She loved the Gospel she espoused insomuch that she was willing to leave the home of her birth and sacrifice all for the Gospel sake. All who knew her can but say, that she loved to do good and was a staunch defender of the principles of Mormonism, because they were her honest convictions ingrafted upon her, from the time she heard the Gospel in her native land.
Her testimonies of the truth were unquestioned, and cuased many to reflect and investigate it. in defending the Gospel she was always minful not to hurt the feelings of those who were religiously opposed to her. We all mourn her loss, but we know that she has gone to rest but a short time, when she will rise in the morning of the first resurrection and recieve her reward with the faithful.
Deseret News June 18, 1898
MARGARET D. REES
Wales, Sanpete County, May 27, 1898.
-Our little settlement was overshadowed with gloom this morning by the death of our beloved sister, Margaret D. Rees, who passed away at 9 o'clock a.m., May 23, 1898. If she had lived until Nov. 1st she would have been 80 years old, but old age and general debility gave death a chance to prey upon her system, and separate for a time the spirit from its earthly tabernacle.
She leaves behind her eight children, seventy-one grandchildren, eighty-eight great grandchildren, along with many friends to mourn her loss. She was born in Carmarthen, Wales, England, November 1, 1818. She joined the Church in the year 1842, being one of the first to embrace the Gospel in that locality. She emigrated to Utah in 1855, pulling her handcart thirteen hundred miles from Iowa City to Salt Lake. Her early days in utah were spent in Ogden and Spanish Fork. She moved to Wales, Sanpete county, in 1859, where she lived until her death.
As a Saint she always showed her willingness to obey the counsel of the authorities and by so doing she was able to live the life of a faithful Latter-day Saint. She loved the Gospel she espoused insomuch that she was willing to leave the home of her birth and sacrifice all for the Gospel sake. All who knew her can but say, that she loved to do good and was a staunch defender of the principles of Mormonism, because they were her honest convictions ingrafted upon her, from the time she heard the Gospel in her native land.
Her testimonies of the truth were unquestioned, and cuased many to reflect and investigate it. in defending the Gospel she was always minful not to hurt the feelings of those who were religiously opposed to her. We all mourn her loss, but we know that she has gone to rest but a short time, when she will rise in the morning of the first resurrection and recieve her reward with the faithful.
MARGARET D. REES
Wales, Sanpete County, May 27, 1898.
-Our little settlement was overshadowed with gloom this morning by the death of our beloved sister, Margaret D. Rees, who passed away at 9 o'clock a.m., May 23, 1898. If she had lived until Nov. 1st she would have been 80 years old, but old age and general debility gave death a chance to prey upon her system, and separate for a time the spirit from its earthly tabernacle.
She leaves behind her eight children, seventy-one grandchildren, eighty-eight great grandchildren, along with many friends to mourn her loss. She was born in Carmarthen, Wales, England, November 1, 1818. She joined the Church in the year 1842, being one of the first to embrace the Gospel in that locality. She emigrated to Utah in 1855, pulling her handcart thirteen hundred miles from Iowa City to Salt Lake. Her early days in utah were spent in Ogden and Spanish Fork. She moved to Wales, Sanpete county, in 1859, where she lived until her death.
As a Saint she always showed her willingness to obey the counsel of the authorities and by so doing she was able to live the life of a faithful Latter-day Saint. She loved the Gospel she espoused insomuch that she was willing to leave the home of her birth and sacrifice all for the Gospel sake. All who knew her can but say, that she loved to do good and was a staunch defender of the principles of Mormonism, because they were her honest convictions ingrafted upon her, from the time she heard the Gospel in her native land.
Her testimonies of the truth were unquestioned, and cuased many to reflect and investigate it. in defending the Gospel she was always minful not to hurt the feelings of those who were religiously opposed to her. We all mourn her loss, but we know that she has gone to rest but a short time, when she will rise in the morning of the first resurrection and recieve her reward with the faithful.
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