Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together consisted of seventy-four wagons. I was with the company that came back, but on the next day we joined the main company and I saw the smoking wagons. After the soldiers and teamsters had driven the government cattle over to Ham's Fork and the soldiers had left all of the cattle in the charge of the teamsters, we made a charge on the cattle and drove them all away which numbered about seven hundred head. After we had gone back to the head of Ham's Fork, another company of ours took the cattle over to Fort Bridger. From here James Stevenson and I went back to Echo Canyon and home." Nancy P.lizabeth Shipley Dickson east and learned while camped on the Platte River that the Civil War had begun. In the summer of 1862, Albert moved to Richville, Morgan County, with his wife Nancy and their two year old daughter, Mary Alvira. He built a house where his father and he had bought a farm. They were greatly saddened when their little daughter passed away that fall. But he continued to help make the roads, water ditches and the schoolhouse where they had church also. He also worked in the canyons, the sawmills and the charcoal pits. In addition to these tasks, Albert served as a road commissioner trustee for many terms and water master for many years. On the first of July, 1877, the Morgan Stake of Zion was organized. Albert was ordained the Bishop of the Richville Ward under the hands of Apostle Franklin D. Richards. His wife Nancy tells the following in her own words to Albert's youngest son, Forde Dickson: "When your father was ordained Bishop of the Richville Ward by Apostle Franklin D. Richards, he was told to take another wife. I could tell that something was disturbing my husband deeply when he came home from the meeting. In fact, he was so troubled that he couldn't eat or sleep. This went on for several days, and finally he revealed to me the news." And how did you feel about that? Nancy replied, "Well, we had a nice family, and we were happy; but if that was the will of the Lord, then he should follow the counsel. It was days later, and he still couldn't sleep or eat. This was a real test of his faith, but I encouraged him to go ahead, and I was willing to back him up and support him. I also said that I would give my consent. Still, he was reluctant to accept this responsibility." Albert and Nancy were both thirty-seven years of age, and already had six of their nine children. Bishop Dickson lived close to the spirit and tells about a "still, small voice" story: "While logging in the canyon, once I had decided to finish chopping down a tree before I went to camp. But as I raised my axe, with only a few more blows necessary, my axe came to a stop and without delay, I shouldered it and went to camp. Upon my return the next morning, the tree had fallen in the same path in which I had chosen to run the night before." When Albert met and married his second wife, Harriet Rosella Flint, a home was constructed north of Albert and Nancy's home along what is now (Richville Lane), a block from Albert's other home. Harriet Rosella Flint was born in Great Salt Lake (Bountiful) Territory on January 22, 1861. They had ten children. Because Albert had two wives, the federal authorities never left him alone, and he was sought to face prosecution by the law almost weekly. The agents tracked his every move even to resorting to window peeking to see if Albert could be caught in cohabitation with his wives. He prepared a place to rest in a stone granary he had on his farm, where he could escape the harassment of the federal marshals sent to arrest him for polygamy. It was also necessary to leave Richville for a time and he went to Canada. He returned to his home in Richville and lived there until his death on February 16,1923, following the death of Harriet Harriet Rosella Flint Dickson (,.'.