In the same issue a letter from fellow missionary John H Miles, showed that Elder Street had been well cared for during the illness which had proved fatal: But less than a year later, his obituary appeared in the Millennial Star of 22nd April 1878. The family settled in Springville, Utah.Įdwin was called on his mission to Britain in 1877 and assigned to the London conference. His father died when Edwin was only three years old, and his widowed mother subsequently emigrated with her three living children – Henry, Edwin and Laura – crossing the Atlantic on the Monarch of the Sea in 1861 and crossing the plains in the Sixtus E Johnson Company. Friends of the dead man came and with their knives cut out the filling as often as it was filled up, but in order to prevent a continuance of this thing, the vicar had ordered him to report the next time it was cut out, and he should then use a chisel on the stone.Įdwin was born in Stockwell, Surrey, in 1851. He told me that the vicar had so ordered it to be cemented up as there was no such thing as ‘elders’ nowadays in the church. I called his attention to the tar-like cement over the words ‘Elder’ and ‘Missionary’ asking him what it meant. ‘I will show you where he lies.’ I followed him, there was no mistake. “’Do you know anything of the grave of Caleb W Haws?’ said I.
He recorded his conversation with the sexton in his journal : While in the Barnsley area, he went to Darton, near Barnsley, to find Caleb Haws’ grave, and spoke to an old gentleman in the churchyard, who turned out to be the sexton.
Twenty-five years later, in 1896, family friend Joseph B Walton, also from Provo, was called to serve in the British mission.
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