Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together History of Edward Webb Phillips and Ann Drinkwater Phillips Edward Webb Phillips was born on May 22,1824, in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, a son of John Phillips and Elizabeth Webb Phillips. He married Ann Drink- water on December 21,1844, at St. Mary's DeLode, Gloucestershire, England. They lived on a cabin boat freighting coal and other commodities between Staffordshire and London. Most, if not all, of their ten children were born on the boat. Many times they had to fish one of them out of the river Thames. They took turns riding the horse which pulled the boat. Edward and his wife, Ann, joined the LDS Church on August 11,1860. They tried to arrive at Cosgrove on Sundays in order to attend LDS services at the home of William and Phoebe Durrant. On May 5, 1864, with six children (four having died), they set sail for Zion on the sailing ship Hudson, taking advantage of the church emigration fund, they were nearly eight weeks crossing the Atlantic Ocean. It took another six months to cross from Winter !n ■■ h Q ' 3 1 c^r^ r ■■ Quarters to Salt Lake with ox team. They arrived in Salt Lake on November 11, 1864, in the Oscar O. Stoddard Company. The first winter they worked digging ditches on the Jordan River bottoms, often sleeping with their boots under their pillows to keep them from freezing so hard they could not get them on. Their fire was mostly from green willows and produced more smoke than heat. To them it was a trying experience, but their faith was built to last and by another winter they had learned much and were quick to put it into practice. In 1868 they moved to Porterville, Morgan County, Utah, to work the Musser farm on shares. Later they bought the farm. They lived there until his death on August 22,1882. One son, Lorenzo, died of smallpox. The plague was so severe that it was necessary to wrap him in quilts to keep the flesh from falling off his bones. He died January 17,1863, at the age of fourteen. The Phillips family grew the first lucern in Porterville and cut it with a scythe. Edward Webb Phillips was a faithful Latter-Day Saint to the end of his days. He and his wife, Ann, were endowed in the Endowment House on February 23, 1867. Their children were sealed to them on October 9,1896. Ann Drink- water was born on April 15, 1818, in Westbury on Severn, Gloucestershire, England, a daughter of Charles Drinkwater and Elizabeth Hancock Drinkwater. She married Edward Webb Phillips on December 21,1844. After the death of her husband, she wanted her son, Hyrum, to run the farm but he refused Ann Drinkxoater Phillips Ann Phillips washed clothes for the railroad men in '1S69 to earn money for the clock. Other items: butter bowl, steelyard scale, one-pound butter mold, "dolley" for washing clothes in a tub. she was too bossy. She sent to Snowville, Box Elder County, Utah, for another son, Thomas Webb Phillips, to come back to Porterville to take charge of the farm. It was said that she continued to run the lives of her family until her death on February 25,1892, in Ogden, Utah.