PIONEER LEADER DIES AT HOME HERE TUESDAY MORNING

Funeral to be held Sunday for Patriarch Joseph S. Horne

Patriarch Joseph Smith Home, 94, believed to be the last surviving male pioneer of 1847, and also the last surviving member of the first Sunday school established in the intermountain west, died at his home here Tuesday morning of ailments incident to age.

Arrangements have been made for funeral services to be held at the Sevier stake tabernacle Sunday at 2 p. m. Friends may call at the home Sunday between the hours of 10 a. m. and I p. m. and also on Saturday afternoon.

Patriarch Horne was bom at Nauvoo, Ill, May 4, 1842 a son of Joseph and Mary Isabella Hales Horne. He was the fifth child in a family of 15. He lived at Nauvoo where he was acquainted with Joseph Smith, prophet-founder of the L.D.S. church until 1847, when with his father who was captain of a wagon train, he came to Salt Lake valley. In later years years he frequently recalled incidents of his acquaintance with the prophet. The religious influence which directed his entire life started then and his faith never wavered. He was a member of the Sunday school established by Richard Ballantyne on December 9, 1849 at his log cabin residence in the Fourteenth ward in Salt Lake. He told of his experience last October at the annual conference of the Deseret Sunday School Union in Salt Lake. In the spring of 1865 he was sent as a missionary to Europe, serving in the Swiss German mission. After his return president Brigham Young called him to preside as bishop over the Gunnison ward but again in 1876 he was called to serve as mission president in Switzerland, a position which he held until he was succeeded by Dr. Karl G. Maeser. In 1878 he was called to serve as bishop of the Richfield Second ward, a position which he held for more than 16 years. He was released to become the second counselor to president W. H. Seegmiller in the Sevier stake presidency. He was made a patriarch in 1898. Mr. Horne was also active in civic affairs. He served as a member of the territorial legislature in 1880; as mayor of Richfield, superintendent of schools and as a city councilman and county commissioner at various times. He resided in Salt Lake for some years before coming to Richfield. As a contractor he supervised the building of the Sevier county court house. He also was believed to have been the first undertaker in Sevier county and for 35 years worked as carpenter and wheelwright.

He married Ann Weiler, daughter of Jacob Weiler of Salt Lake City in 1868 and in 1879 following her death he was married to Maria Baum. She died and he married Martha M. Morrison, February 14, 1880 in the old Salt Lake Endowment house.

Surviving are the widow, five daughters, Mrs. Margaret H. Kienke and Mrs. Florence Tate both of Salt Lake City, Mrs. Edna Workman, Delta; Mrs. Leona Crouch and Mrs. Clara Parks both of Richfield. Five sons, Joseph Horne, Salt Lake City; W. R. Horne, Washington D. C., and Aaron Horne, Ogden; Owen Horne, Kaysville; Karl N. Horne, Abilene, Texas; four sisters, Mrs. Minnie James and Mrs. Mattie Tingey, Mrs. Clara James and Mrs. Mattle Tingey, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Cornelia Clayton, Blanding; a brother Wm. J. Horne, Salt Lake City. 67 grandchildren and 32 great grandchildren.


Published in The Richfield Reaper Newspaper 1937-03-04