Biographies & Obituaries

Priddy Meeks Obituary

The subject of this obituary, Priddy Meeks, was born in Greenville district, South Carolina, Aug. 29th, A.D. 1795.  In March 1815 he married Mary Bartlett by whom he had four children. She died in 1824 in Spencer Co., Va.  He next married Sarah Mahruin Smith in Grayson Co., Ky.  She bore him five children.  On Nov. 13th, 1856, he married Mary Jane McCleeve in Salt Lake City, who has born him ten children, eight of whom are living.  Brother Meeks received the Gospel in 1840 in Illinois, and in 1842 moved to Nauvoo.  He left there with the saints and reached Salt Lake Valley Oct. 1st, 1847.  In 1851, volunteers were called for to strenthen the southern settlements of the Territory.  Brother Meeks volunteered, and lived in Parowan, Iron County, for ten years, afterwards in Harrisburg.  In 1876 he moved to Orderville, Kane County, and joined the United Order.  brother Meeks bore a faithful testimony to the truth of the latter-day work, and exhorted his children to the firm and steadfast in the cause of God.  He was a strict observer of the Word of Wisdom, and practiced medicine somewhat after the "Thompsonian" school. He was a faithful Latter-day Saint, and departed this life at his residence in Orderville, October 7th, 1886, at the ripe age of 91 years, leaving two wives and a numerous posterity to mourn his departure.

Samuel Mulliner

A Veteran.  This morning we received a call from Brother Samuel Mulliner, who is now a resident of Orderville.  He expresses himself greatly pleased with his new home.  The people there live entirely in a united capacity, without individual interests.  Peace prevails, and the prosperity of the place is gradually increasing.

Brother Mulliner is conducting the tanning, shoe, harness and saddle making departments of the association, having had a long experience in those branches of business.

Brother Mulliner is a veteran elder of the Church. He became identified with the latter-day work in Canada, went to Quincy, Illinois, at which place the Prophet, Joseph Smith, appointed him on a mission to his native country, Scotland, where he opened up the way of the gospel, in Renfrewshire.  That was thirty-nine years ago.  He was followed a few months subsequently by Elder Orson Pratt, who did an extensive work in that land, building up and establishing many branches of the Church.  Brother Mulliner is still a hale, hearty old gentleman.