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Show also a member of the Morgan Stake High Council. Alfred Owen assisted in many ways to build the community of South Morgan. In March, 1904, he was called on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He served until 1906. He was the father of eight children at this time. His wife, Janetta Anderson Hogg Durrant, was left at home to care for a farm and thirteen cows which had to be fed and milked. This she did with the help of her older sons. They had a real struggle to take care of a family, farm, and other duties, as well as to earn enough money to keep Alfred Owen on his mission for two years. Many hardships were endured by this loyal Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together couple, but they always had a testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In March, 1935, Alfred Owen Durrant and Janetta Durrant celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. All ten children were present at this celebration. Alfred Owen died October 14,1937, after a short illness. After fifty-two years of married life, ten children and forty-two grandchildren, this was the first death in the family. He was buried in the South Morgan Cemetery in Morgan, Utah. Janetta maintained her own home until her death on November 23, 1944. She is buried beside her husband in the South Morgan Cemetery. ©19- Janetta Anderson Hogg Durrant Janetta Anderson Hogg was born in Morgan, Utah, on February 1,1867. Her parents, Robert Hogg and Janet McNiven Hogg, were converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints religion in Scotland and immigrated to Utah in 1860. (According to the history of Robert Hogg, his first wife, Isabella Swan, was never converted to the religion and did not come to Utah with him. He married Janet McNiven after he came to Morgan, Utah. They were married in 1862.) They were among the very first families to settle on the present site in South Morgan (290 West 100 North). As a child, Janetta Hogg (known as Nettie) passed through two very severe illnesses, smallpox and diphtheria, during which time she had the hand of the Lord manifest itself in her behalf. She was married to Alfred Owen Durrant on March 1, 1885, in the Logan Temple. Ten children were born to this union: Robert James, Pearl, LeRoy (Dick), Leland, Don Carlos, Jennie, Clifton, Naomi, Jessie, and Dale. Janetta taught school while she was a teenager in a school in Round Valley, Utah. This is a little settlement about four or five miles east of Morgan. She used to walk from Morgan to Round Valley and back every day to teach school. She wore long skirts, and in the snow or when it was muddy, her skirts would get wet and/or muddy. At an early age, she accepted responsible positions in the church. Her first public position was Assistant Secretary of the Y.L.M.I.A. (Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association) of the Morgan Stake. She was called to this position on October 25, 1887. She later served as first counselor to Sarah Eddington in the Y.L.M.I.A., and in 1905 she became president of same organization. In 1909 she was chosen president of the Morgan Ward Relief Society. In 1910 she became first counselor to Sister Mariette Waldron in the Morgan Stake Relief Society. This position was held for eleven years. In 1924 she became president of the Y.L.M.I.A. of the Morgan Ward and held this position for two years. She was a class leader in this organization for several years. She was a Relief Society visiting teacher for many years. This position she held at the time of her death. She was a charter member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Morgan County and had held positions in that organization almost continuously since it began here until just a few years before her death. During the flu epidemic of 1918 and 1919, Sister Durrant went to many homes and nursed the sick. Not only in her own neighborhood but to Henefer and Devil's Slide as well. Many of the sick owed their recovery to the efforts of her and other fine women. Her testimony of the gospel never wavered throughout her entire life, and she was a most faithful attendant at church and all other public functions when her health permitted her to be there. Janetta Hogg Durrant died November 23, 1944, and is buried beside her husband, Alfred Owen Durrant, in the South Morgan Cemetery. She left a posterity of sixty- five, twelve of whom are in the armed forces. |