Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together and was in the battle of Black Rock and saw Buffalo burned December 24,1813. In 1815 he moved to Cayuga County to the town of Sempronius, and in 1821 he left and went east about twelve miles to Scott, Cortland County, and bought a timber farm and lived there many years. About the 1st of February, 1832, he was converted and baptized on February 9, 1832, by Jared Carter and was immediately ordained an elder by him. In 1835 he went to Kirtland, Ohio, and for the first time saw the Prophet Joseph Smith, three years before he traveled about and preached the gospel with Elder Jera Publisher. At Richland, on the shores of Lake Ontario, they baptized ten members. Among them was President Wilford Woodruff. Elijah was the first one to preach the Gospel to and sell him a Book of Mormon. While in Kirtland, he helped to built the temple and got his endowments on July 5, 1836. He then started for Coldwell County, Missouri, but his wife and family took sick and they stayed in Coles County, Illinois, over winter. In 1837 they were forced to leave Missouri and come to Hancock County, Illinois. And in 1837 he left Coles County, Illinois. Moved to Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, and later moved to Mersey, Mason County, Illinois, where he bought sixty acres of land and made a farm where they lived till about 1842, when he left and moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. He settled fifteen miles east of there where he commenced breaking and fencing a new farm on the east side of Comp Creek, seven miles west of LaHarpe. He built a new house and was prosperous when his wife, Achsa, took sick and died and was buried on the southeast corner of said farm. In February 1846 he received his endowments, washing and anointing. In June the same year, he was married to Carry Harmon, formerly a wife of Oliver Harmon and a sister to Jesse P. Harmon. He left in June the same year and went to Council Bluffs. He lived for three years and left in 1849, starting for the Rocky Mountains in company with Brother George A. Smith and others starting from Winter Quarters about June 15, 1849, and arrived in Salt Lake Valley in October. He rented a house of Brother Appleton Harmon, and in 1850 he moved to the Tenth Ward. Died and buried in Centerville, Davis County, Utah. Children of Elijah Cheney and Achsa Thompson Cheney: David, born May 19, 1812; Elizabeth, born June 7,1814; James, born June 2,1816; Zachens, born April 22, 1818; Margaret, born February 28, 1820; Erastus, born May 25,1822; John, born April 27,1824; Mary D., bom August 2,1826; Sarah D., born July 22, 1829; Joseph, born April 22,1833. John Cheney was the son of Elijah and Achsa Thompson Cheney, born April 27, 1824, in the state of New York (Scott, Cortland County). He came to Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois, with his father's family. Came to Salt Lake in 1849 and resided in the Tenth Ward for one year. Went to California in 1850, returning in 1857. Married Samantha Dickson in 1862. Died in Richville, Morgan County on March 15,1875. He built the first boat on Great Salt Lake. Shoshone Indians Some of my ancestors were here in the valley of Morgan when Chief Washakie and his tribe would come here in the summer for their hunting grounds. The Indians would come to Porterville and camp in Norwood Canyon. My great-grand-father, Samuel Carter, was living here then, only about two miles from where they would camp. My great-grandmother, Ellen, would bake bread every day and set some in the window to cool. An old Indian would come by and she would give him some bread. Samuel said at one time before they left the valley for other hunting grounds, they all dressed their fine Indian dress and paraded around them to show them that they had peace with them. They felt that they loved them. It was a very sad day for Samuel and his family when the government came and took the Indians out of this beautiful valley and off to the Indian reservations. - Doris Carter Sanders Chief Washakie