DID YOU KNOW - Abraham Powell was killed by a bear?

Abraham Powell

A most lamentable accident occurred on the 3rd day of the 12th month. A part of hunters consisting of John A. Powell, Abraham Powell, Caleb B. Rhoades, and Robert Snyder, of this place, started on the 23rd of November, a deer hunting expedition. They selected their hunting ground at Nebo Creek, east of Mount Nebo. As they were gathering up their game, one of the party, Brother Abraham Powell was attacked by a grizzley bear, which lay secreted in the brush, about 10 feet off, striking him down before any defense could be made, and literally tearing his eyes from their sockets, scalping his head from below the region of the eyes, mangling and bruising his whole body in no less that forty-seven different places, in a most fearful manner. Notwithstanding he was used in such a dreadful manner, he rallied and hollored to his brother John Powell, who was nearly three-quarters of a mile off from the scene. The latter sped to his rescue as fast as possible and carried him to camp, when he received all the care and attention that the isolated circumstances would permit; but in spite of all efforts, he expired on the morning of the 4th, in very severe suffering.

The deceased was a young man, aged 23; a most daring a fearless hunter. He was industrious and of exemplary habits, a quiet and peaceable disposition, dutiful and kind to his mother, he was the son of the late James Powell, so well known in the Missouri persecutions, and Mrs. Jemima Powell, an aged lady, who lives to mourn his loss. His comrades, at his request, ordained him to the priesthood of an Elder, and dedicated him to the Lord, after which he expired, uttering his last words, "Take care of mother."

Source
From the Deseret News of Dec. 6, 1878
Salem, Utah Dec. 6, 1878
Editors Deseret News

Descendancy
Abraham Powell,
Son of James & Jemima Powell
Brother of Simeon Comfort Powell
Hannah Caroline Powell
Allen Berry Williams
LaVon Williams
Diane Finlinson