Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us 'To^elhe: Ozias Kilbourn, Jr. My father was Ozias Kilbourn, Jr., born March 20, 1810, at Milford, Ostgo County, New York. He died January 19,1901, in Porterville, Morgan County, Utah. Buried in Centerville, Davis County, Utah. He was a farmer, trapper and hunter. He married Electa Grantier on September 15, 1832. Ten children were born of this marriage. They moved to Hancock County, Illinois, in 1843 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Nauvoo, Illinois. He was closely associated with Joseph Smith, the Prophet, and was a guard to help protect him from the mob. He used to tell us how darkness seemed to settle over the Saints after Joseph and Hyrum were killed. The family prepared to make the move with the first company, but my father was taken sick with a fever and had to stay at Winter Quarters until the next spring. He, with another of the brethren, were chosen to furnish fresh meat for the company. When the train was ready to move each morning, these two men would start out in the general direction, on each side of the trail. If they were lucky to kill something for meat, they would put it on their backs and start back toward the trail that the wagons were following. The meat was divided among the people of the train and when there was more than was needed, the two hunters could take it and do what they wanted with it. Father's second oldest daughter, Electa Mariah, later married Lyman Porter. They would sit in the back of the wagon and cut the meat in thin strips and string it on wire and hang it across the back of the wagon. The motion of the wagon kept the flies away, and the hot sun and wind dried it. It was called jerked venison and when it was dry it was packed in a large chum, so when they got to the valley, they had enough jerked venison to flavor their meals all winter. In 1849 they moved to Centerville, Utah, where he raised many thoroughbred horses and had large orchards. In 1852 a ward was organized and he was chosen first counselor to Bishop Sanford Porter; he served until 1855. He was one of the volunteers to take a wagon back to meet the handcart company and help them through to Salt Lake City, Utah. The weather was so severe, he froze his feet and was lame the rest of his life. In the spring of 1853 his wife died and Heber C. Kimball advised him to marry again. He married Rachel Bennet in 1874 and two children were born to this marriage; but the marriage was not a success, and they divorced. On February 4,1877, he married Angeline Cole and they were the parents of five children: Ozias C, Fredrick, Hyrum, Susanna and Bertha. They moved to Morgan County in 1890 and bought a farm from his son-in-law, Lyman W. Porter in Porterville. In his patriarchal blessing, my father was promised if he would give to everyone that came for flour that his bin would never be empty. He said some would come to ask for just a cup full to make gravy, some would ask for enough to make biscuits or maybe a batch of bread, but he gave to all. I was just a child when he died, but I remember him telling of the flour episode, but I didn't take much notice, but just a few years ago I went with my half sister to visit an old friend in Centerville and when we began to talk he brought out his records and he said, "Your dad had a flour bin that never ran dry." And I asked, "Was that really so?" and he said it sure was. ©9 Jesse Carter Little Jesse Carter Little, Sr. was the youngest of eight children born to Relief White Little and Thomas Little, on September 26, 1815, in Belmont, Waldo County, Maine. On September 29,1840, at the age of twenty-five, he married Eliza Greenwood French of Peterboro, Hillsboro, New Hampshire. He was in the wagon business, a good organizer, with the ability to get things done. He was of medium height, with dark hair and eyes, had a quick temper, was stubborn, but never used profanity. It has been said Peterboro was originally settled by dissenters from an overbearing state. Religion was ripe for harvesting by Brigham Young's magnetic presentation of the Mormon religion, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It was estimated that the Mormons gained from 130 to 150 adherents, of whom Jesse Little was one. Jesse was baptized on Sunday, April 3, 1841, in a rapid stream near the Peterboro Main Street Bridge, returning home in freezing clothing to his astounded wife.