---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1840 to 1841.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 2
number: 10
published: 1841-03-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Epitaph,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 10 (March 15, 1841): 358."
printed_title: EPITAPH.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-03-15_2_10
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n10.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-03-15_2_10
start_page: 358
end_page: 358
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1841 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-03-15_2_10
  publication_year: 1841
---

# Epitaph

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Parents weep not, though earth inclose [enclose]

My mortal parts beneath this sod!

Know, such as I on high compose,

The kingdom of my Saviour [Savior]God.

In this city, on the 10th inst. Elder David Dort, aged 48 years.-Brother Dort was a member of the High Council:-In his death we have lost one of our most valuable citizens.

Flour, meal, pork, lard, butter and cheese, will be received in payment for the Times and Seasons, if delivered.