Joseph Crook's Obituary

Obituary             Deseret News               Film #26942               Page 6                    14 Jan 1898

Joseph Crook was born June 1823, in Chalford, Bisley Parish, Gloucestershire, England and was the son of James Crook and Sophia Mason Crook was baptized Aug 11, 1841, married to Elizabeth Walter in 1843, emigrated in 1855 leaving England in April on the ship Samuel Curling Israel Barlow President of the company. He crossed the plains the same year in Captain Milo Andrus's Company and arrived in Utah the latter part of October the same year.  He lived in Kaysville a short time then in Salt Lake City and in the year of the "Move" he went south with a body of the saints and settled in Payson and has lived there ever since.  He was ordained a seventy April 13 1867.  Since May 1890 he has been a member of the High Priests Quorum.  He was a very abstestemious man and regular in his habits a constant attendant at his meetings.  He had great faith in the Gospel and was a regular tithe payer.  His wife Elizabeth died Jan 28, 1891 and he married his wife Rosina Dec 20, 1895 who survives him.  He was the father of four children, three sons and one daughter.  His posterity consists of four children, thirty eight grandchildren, and eighteen great grandchildren.  He did Jan 8, 1898 firm in the faith of the Gospel, with the home of coming forth in the first resurrection to inherit eternal life.

Christina Ann Zundell Crook Ballard Obituary

Her obituary on film #027113 Deseret News page 18, 15 Dec 1937  Wed.


Christina A.Z.C. Ballard ....Payson-- Mrs. Christina A. Zundell Crook Ballard
age 91, Payson's oldest resident died late Monday at her home after a lingering illness.  She was born in Council Bluff, Iowa Feb 8 1848, a daughter of John and Christina Lautenschlager Zundell. She came to Payson with her parents when a child. She was married to the late Joseph E. Crook, Dec 2 1864 and to James E. Ballard in 1897. Mr Ballard died several years ago.  Mrs. Ballard worked as a dressmaker and tailor during her early life until she retired in 1897. She was an honorary member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and an active church member.


Surviving are the following sons and daughters: David H. Crook, Santaquin; Mrs Adora Nash, Vernal; Mrs Mary A. Crook, Calif; John W. Crook and Mrs Hattie Wilson, Payson; 22 grandchildren, 52 great-grandchildren, and 8 great great grandchildren.  Services will be conducted Friday at 2:00 P.M. in Payson First Ward. Interment will be in Payson City cemetery. Friends may call at the Deseret Mortuary Thursday and at the residence Friday prior to services.

Sophia Wing Philbrook Obituary

Obituary Transcript - Sophia Wing Philbrook Rollins - Deseret News 17 April 1872; p. 135

At Payson City, Utah County, March 11, SOPHIA W., wife of Enoch P. Rollins.
Born December 12, 1805, in the town of Hamden, Hancock Co., Maine. Baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, February 8, 1840. Emigrated with her husband and family to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Ill., in 1844. Was driven by mob violence from there to the opposite side of the Mississippi River into Lee Co., Iowa, where she suffered much from exposure to the inclemency of the weather, owing to camping in a tent until snow fell, having a great deal of sickness in her family, and suffering many privations until she emigrated to Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, in the fall of 1848. From there she came to these valleys in the fall of 1852, where she has lived a faithful Latter-day Saint, and much beloved by all who knew her.
Nevada, California, and Maine papers, please copy. - Com.

  Acquired from Find A Grave on 11 April 2012.

Enoch Perham Rollins Obituary

Transcript of Enoch Perham Rollins Obituary - Deseret News; 12 December 1877, p. 731

At Annabella, Sevier County, Utah, November 9th, 1877, of consumption, ENOCH PERHAM ROLLINS, in the 73rd year of his age.
Deceased was the son of Ichabod and Mary Perham Rollins; born January 14th, 1805 at Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine; was a professor of religion from early youth; emigrated with his family to New York in 1837; was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints February 8th , 1841, in Pelham, West Chester County, New York; started in 1843 for Nauvoo, Illinois, and for want of means stopped in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, eleven months, and while there heard the sad news of the death of the Prophet Joseph; started again shortly after, and landed in Nauvoo in August, 1844, he was ordained a member of the Eighth Quorum of Seventies; he spent a great deal of his time working on the Temple and other public works until the winter of '45 and '46, when he went into the wagon shop and assisted the brethren in making and repairing wagons for the benefit of those who intended to move west in the spring; attended to the ordinances in the Temple that winter, and in the spring made himself a wagon, but having no team was compelled to stay there until driven out by the mob. He had been afflicted with ague for some time, but notwithstanding his weakness, with the aid of Bro. Rufus Allen he pried an old log canoe out of the sand that had been bedded down there all summer, with the assistance of Brother Allen, who was also afflicted with chills, and Brother Allen's wife and her sister, four families were moved across the Mississippi River that night by eleven o'clock. They commenced about four o'clock in the afternoon. They made several trips, the women rowing like men. Two of the mobcrats had tried to get the boat loose a day or two before but had to leave it. He had no trouble in getting it loose. He was compelled through circumstances to stay in that part of the country. He endured much sickness and privation until the spring of 1848, when he removed to Council Bluffs. In the 1852 he emigrated to Salt Lake City. He was one of the last to leave the Bluffs that season, being counseled by Bro. Benson to stay and fit up wagons for the journey as long as he possibly could. He arrived in Salt Lake City October 28th, and went to work on the public works. He spent the most of his time there until the spring of 1856, and since that time he has lived in various settlements. He has been ever ready to respond to every call made of him by those that were place in authority over him in the priesthood. He never murmured or complained, and through his last sickness, which lasted eight months, his only desire was to live to go into the Temple and finish up a little of the work that he had already commenced for his friends that had passed behind the [veil], of which he had several hundred names. He was the father of fifteen children, had thirty-nine grandchildren and twenty-three great-grandchildren. He died, as he had lived, a faithful Latter-day Saint, and in hopes of a glorious resurrection. - Com.

Deseret News 12 December 1877; p. 731

Obituary and Transcription  acquired from Find a Grave on 11 April 2012

Jens Johannes Jensen Obituary

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Obituary and article for William Brown Fulkerson

Transcription:

Obituary on Wm. B. Fulkerson

William B. Fulkerson, of Bogue, died last Friday night of cancer of the throat at the age of 68 years and 8 months.  Mr. Fulkerson had resided at Bogue for eighteen years, and previous to that for seventeen years in Rooks county.  He has raised a family of twelve children, all visiting their father during his last illness, except one who lives in California.
Mr. Fulkerson was born in Polk county, Ill. Nov. 10, 1906, at 4:30 o’clock A.M.  Three of the children are living in California, 2 sons and 1 daughter in Utah, 1 daughter in Nebraska and 5 are living here.
The deceased was highly respected and the funeral procession paid a handsome tribute to his life as a citizen in their midst.  The remains were interred in the Bill City cemetery, the funeral being preached bny Rev. Holt at the Baptist church in Hill Ccity, Sunday Nov. 11th.  We extend sympathy to relatives.

The Old Hotel and its Landlord

Tribute to W. B. Fulkerson,

Deceased

The old house is there yet, but its owner has gone over to the great silent majority, and is waiting the last call.
He came from Southern Illinois to Kansas in the early seventies locating in the Solomon valley near Beloit, and from there wended his way to Ash Grove between Stockton and Webster in Rooks county.  There he dwelt for a number of years.  He hunted buffalo and antelope, over the wide plains, that are now great corn, wheat and alfalfa farms.  He has seen days when the skies seemed as brass and days when the fields were flooded.  Has waited and watched in times of stress for the coming of the lone, weary pilgrims, and in days of plenty has gladly shared his abundance with all who came.  And through it all, he was ever hopeful and loyal to this chosen home.
He has some faults, and many excellent traits.  Hospitality looked from his eyes and was written all over his massive frame.  Friendship was in his greeting and good cheer in his manner and this talk.  His laugh was comforting.  Some of us remember well, how pleasant it used to seem in the early morning, to hear his great resonant voice lifted up singing the old hymns while he walked back and forth through office, dinning room and kitchen, “brushing up a little” and “getting things ready for the brave, faithful wife to prepare breakfast, “Aunt Bet” he called her.  and she has earned a high commission by her wise and careful management of whatever wha allotted to her, in prosperity and adversity.
His friends, his neighbors, those who had bided with him, and the passersby will miss him in the doorway and on the porch and around the place.  And the rooms will seem lonely, with Uncle “Bill” not there.

~One who has camped with him for many moons.

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Obituary for Joseph Edward Crook, Jr.

Transcribed:

Joseph E. Crook, Jr. Was Stricken With Heart Trouble

   When the Salt Lake Route's Tintic passenger train pulled into Eureka on Monday morning it carried the body of Joseph E. Crook, Jr., a former resident of this city who had been engaged in hauling ore from the Sharp Mine in Tooele county.  Mr. Crook's death took place at about midnight on Sunday and the end came without warning.  Together with his wife and one son he had been making his home near the Sharp property and Mr. Crook was directing teaming work in that locality where he has contracts for hauling ore and supplies.  He ate a hearty meal on Sunday night and after attending to his teams retired for the night, at midnight Mrs. Crook was awakened.  She found her husband suffering from a pain in the neighborhood of his heart and a few.... When the body was brought to Eureka it was turned over to Undertaker A..Wallace and the following morning shipment was made to Santaquin where the Crook family lived before coming to this city.  Burial took place in that city.
    Deceased was 55 years of age and leaves...his wife and five grown children, many other relatives, his father being a resident of Payson.

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