Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Togetliei Mary. His children stayed in Salt Lake City to work. He began to clear his land from oak brush and willows. He planted a garden and learned new skills in farming including planting oats, wheat and raising livestock. In July of that year, 1861, his daughter, Fanny, was married to James Whitehead Jr. and they moved to Peterson and homesteaded the property adjacent to Charles' property. Sarah was helping Charles clear his land for agriculture when she was bitten by a scorpion. Because there was no medical help available in the Morgan Valley, Sarah was taken to Salt Lake to the home of John and Elizabeth Lees. There she died on September 27,1861. Sarah was one of the first to be buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. Following Sarah's death, Charles and Mary continued to live in Peterson. Although work was done on the road through Weber Canyon, travel to Ogden and Salt Lake continued to be difficult. Food was sometimes scarce because of flooding of fields and difficulty of travel to the other valley, but the completion of a gristmill in Richville helped with that situation. On September 29, 1862, Mary gave birth to a daughter, their only child. They named her Sarah Alice and called her Alice. John came to live in Peterson for a short time. He taught school there and also helped Charles Peterson in his job as postmaster. John later moved to Coalville in Summit County. Some of his accomplishments were: he taught school, was elected to the Legislature, was a tax collector and assessor, was appointed Postmaster for Coalville, was Superintendent of the Coalville ZCMI for fourteen years, served a mission to Great Britain, and established Coalville's first drug store. Charles' twin daughters, Mary Ann and Louisa, had stayed in Salt Lake City to work as domestic servants for different families. When they became homesick to see their father and their sister Fanny, who had married and was also living in Peterson, they walked the trail up City Creek Canyon. This wasn't an easy walk, but once they reached the summit, the rest of the way was downhill. There was a sawmill at Shingle Mill on the north side of the summit, where trees were cut and lumber brought down through City Creek to Salt Lake City. From the summit, Mary Ann and Louisa followed Hardscrabble Creek to the meadow where the trail is divided. The trail east went to Porterville and they took the trail west along the base of Mahogany Ridge and followed the Deep Creek into Littleton, just seven miles from Peterson. In the General Conference of the Church in April of 1865, Charles was called as one of the twelve elders to serve on a work mission in the Sandwich Islands, or the Hawaiian Islands as they are now called. In 1865, the church had over 4,000 members who had been baptized since the mission had opened in 1850. At first, the church had purchased property on the island of Lanai, and encouraged the Hawaiian Saints to gather there rather than to go to the Salt Lake Valley. All went well for a few years, then a wayward missionary, Walter Gibson, began to use his authority wrongly, and because communications were slow, it was not until 1864, that apostles Ezra T. Benson, Lorenzo Snow, and Joseph F. Smith, along with Elders Alma Smith and William Cluff, arrived in Hawaii. Their investigation showed that Gibson had defrauded the church and natives of the property in Lanai. Gibson was excommunicated and the Hawaiian Saints were encouraged to move to a new location on the island of Oahu. The church purchased a 6,500 acre plantation at Laie on the windward side of that island. Missionaries were needed to built the new community there. Charles and his wife, Mary, were set apart for their missions one day apart - Charles on May 15, 1865, and Mary on May 16,1865. They traveled by wagon train to San Francisco. There were ten wagons and forty-three Saints in that company. From San Francisco, they sailed to Hawaii. On July 6, 1865, the missionaries arrived in Honolulu. It was their job in Laie to build schools, homes and meeting houses and help erect a sugar factory, teach trades to the Hawaiians and teach the gospel. In Laie, Charles moved his family into a grass hut. The sugar factory took a couple of years to complete, but it helped give employment to the Saints. The sugar cane grown on the church plantation was taken to the factory and made into brown sugar and shipped to the United States. In the summer of 1867, Charles and Mary, along with James Lawson and his wife, Harriet, moved their families to Honolulu so they could work to earn money for boat passage in the spring. After a successful three year mission, Charles and Mary were released and sailed home. They arrived in San Francisco on June 11,1868, traveled to Sacramento and waited for about four weeks until a party was organized that would travel to Utah. Charles bought a wagon and two pairs of mules. Alice became ill with mountain fever and was ill all the way back to Salt Lake. All her hair came out and when she arrived in Salt Lake, she was too weak to walk. Alice was two and a half years old when her parents were called as missionaries to Hawaii. In later years she said she didn't remember much of the ocean voyage to Hawaii, but she remembered her home in Laie as a grass hut. She remembered the tropical 20