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Source: Church History Vol. 4 Chapter 32 Page: 577 (~1888)

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577 was left to the people, and a large majority voted to stop the debate, so I had to succumb."

July 21 Zebedee Coltrin, who was a member of Zion's camp in 1834, died at Spanish Fork, Utah.

On July 22 Elder George S. Hyde, of the Quorum of Seventy, died at Little Sioux, Iowa, in his thirty-fourth year. His death was the result of dengue fever contracted while engaged in missionary work in Texas. He was an exemplary man, kind, loving, and a model of patience, an earnest advocate of the faith and anxious for the prosperity of the church. About ten days before his death he remarked to his attendants: "I am exceedingly happy; a perfect peace is mine." He left a wife and four children.

On July 25 John Taylor, president of the Utah church, died at Kaysville, Utah, in exile, hiding to escape arrest for polygamous practices. It will be remembered that Elder Taylor was one of the twelve apostles in the lifetime of Joseph Smith, having been called to that quorum in 1838. He was present when Joseph and Hyrum Smith were shot, and was himself wounded with four balls. After the death of Joseph Smith he followed the fortunes of the people who went to Utah under Brigham Young. In 1880 he succeeded Brigham Young in the presidency of that organization, and retained that position until death.

On August 8 Honorable Alexander Doniphan died at Richmond, Ray County, Missouri. General Doniphan, as he was familiarly known, is worthy of special notice in this history, because of the courage and manliness shown in his defense of the Saints in l838-9. He was born July 9, 1808, in Mason County, Kentucky. He graduated from Augusta College, Kentucky, at the age of eighteen, and afterwards studied law in the office of Martin P. Marshall; and while yet a young man was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Ohio. He came to Missouri in 1830, first settling at Lexington, and afterwards at Liberty. In the latter place he resided for thirty years. In 1838 he was in command of a brigade of Missouri militia, and while acting

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