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Joseph Kirkham
6 Aug 1878 – 7 Dec 1881
| Birth | 6 Aug 1878 |
| Death | 7 Dec 1881 |
| Cemetery | Lehi City Cemetery Lehi , Utah County , Utah , USA |
| Added by | Lee Drew on 01 May 2007 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92745 |
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Taken from the journals of George Kirkham - Joesph's father Thursday Dec 8, 1881: The weather was fine and clear. My father-in-law dug his grave. The day was a dreary one for us. At 3 o'clock a number of our friends, besides our relations, came to bury our dear little Joseph, who was born while I was working out his mother's and his aunt's emigration in Salt Lake City on the tabernacle. He was now 3 years and 3 months old, and he was a star of our family, and the Lord saw fit to take him and we have to submit to it, for the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, and blessed be the name of the Lord. It seemed as though we had suffered great during the past summer, having lost 3 children and a mother, but all we could do now was to try and get over it, and acknowledge the hand of the Lord in it. He told his mother just before he took sick, he was going on a mission up to the graveyard, and many other things he said, which were or did not seem natural for a little boy like him to say. We could remember so many things he said, and how good and bright he was, and willing to do anything he was told to do, but when I think how he suffered and fell away to nothing, as you might say. When I came home in the evening and saw him being washed by his grandmother, about 10 minutes after his death, I thought I would have sunk. It was a dreadful sight to see. His bones could have been counted almost. As I write about him my heart is sad, but I said the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, and blessed be the name of the Lord. --submitted by Kathy Kirkham Reed
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- George Erastus Kirkham 1873–1928
- Rachel Kirkham Wanlass 1875–1964
- William Kirkham 1876–1953
- Eliza Kirkham Crabb 1878–1967
- Sarah Kirkham 1880–1881
- Mary Kirkham 1880–1881
- Thomas Franklin Kirkham 1882–1958
- Hyrum R Kirkham 1882–1943
- Lott Kirkham 1884–1953
- Annie Amelia Kirkham Fox 1884–1949
- Leah Kirkham Anderson 1887–1920
- Maude Lorena Kirkham Russell 1888–1940
- Oliver George Kirkham 1891–1948
- Daisy Bell Kirkham Christensen 1891–1928
- Avery James Kirkham 1894–1913
- Alvin Willard Kirkham 1894–1974
- Bessy LaVerne Kirkham Fillerup 1897–1985
- Ruby Leona Kirkham Pack 1897–1960
- PVT Denzil Washington Kirkham 1900–1945
- Raymond Lee Kirkham 1902–1979
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