Thomas E. Ricks Company. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on October 4,1863. Catherine had a frightening experience on the trip. She was fifteen, small for her age and tired of walking. She sat down on a rock to rest. A group of Indians approached her. They were about fifty in number and were wearing paint and feathers. They stared at her for awhile. The Chief muttered something to them and they left. Meanwhile her mother had noted her absence and had sent someone to look for her. After arriving in Utah, the family took up residence at 2047 Jefferson Avenue in Ogden, Weber, Utah. Catherine opened a sweet shop on Washington Blvd. between 23rd and 24th Streets, next to Boyles Furniture store. Catherine helped her with this enterprise. Catherine met Thomas Shore Wadsworth in Ogden, at the Third Ward. They were married on December 2,1864. She was only seventeen. She was an excellent wife and mother. Her mother wrote to her older brother in Wales. She told Thomas that "Catherine was a good wife, industrious, clean and neat. She (Catherine ) makes everything from her husband's coats to their baby's dresses." Catherine and Thomas lived with William and Ann Mason. Their first three children were born there. Only the oldest lived to maturity. Another child was born in Ogden at their Aunt Luty's home. She lived. The family moved to Hooper where Thomas earned $675 a year as schoolmaster. While he was there, he organized a Sunday School and served as its Superintendent. Here a baby boy was born and died before his second birthday. The family moved back to Ogden. Three more children were born while they lived there. One, Martha Jane, survived; five dead babies in twelve years. What a sorrow for a mother to bear. After the smallpox epidemic in 1875-1876, Thomas went to Keokuk, Iowa to attend the "Physicians and Surgeons College." While he was there, Catherine made fancy work and sold them from door-to-door to help pay expenses, He graduated in 1878 and returned to Utah. One of the five babies who died was born while Thomas was in Iowa. We next find the family in American Fork where another baby was born. This child and all of Catherine's subsequent children lived. Another baby was born at Payson and two at Lehi. All these places are in Utah County. Through all these moves, child bearing, sorrows and. hardships, Catherine maintained a cheerful attitude and her home was a place of love and understanding. Thomas was working as a doctor and I'm sure that the family was struggling to make ends meet. Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together They made one last move to Morgan, Utah where they stayed until their deaths. Two more children were born to them in Morgan. This brought the total to fourteen. Catherine's grandson, Edward Norris, paid her a great tribute, when he wrote, "Grandma (Catherine) was reserved, but friendly, and very active up to her last years. She always kept the cookie jar full when he was around. She was a woman born years before her time. She shared equally in the pioneering effort with her husband. She made sacrifices to assist in building up the community. With her womanly strength, her will, intelligence and hard work, she was an ideal helpmate for her husband. Together they reared a large family who reflected their independent spirit. "Instead of a lawn, the entire front yard was a flower garden which Catherine painstakingly tended. Her other major outside activity included the care of a large raspberry patch which provided a bounteous yield of the best raspberries in the County. She also kept chickens and a large vegetable garden." In 1888 her sister Sophronia died after falling off a train observation car. Both legs had to be amputated, but Sophronia died two weeks later. She left two little girls orphaned. Sophronia's husband had deserted her five years before and his whereabouts were unknown. Catherine took them into her home and cared for them with her own large brood. Later, they went to live with their stepbrother, Samuel John Thomas. She and her husband celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1914, at their daughter, Christmas's home in Ogden. Catherine, Thomas, children, in-laws and grandchildren and greatgrandchildren all had a marvelous time. Shortly after this party, Catherine became ill. Her oldest living daughter, Martha Jane, had gone with her father on his rounds and had learned a lot about medicine from him. When Catherine took ill, Martha Jane went to Morgan and nursed her through her illness. Catherine recovered, but her health was uncertain and "Mattie" as she was known to her friends returned again and again to help her mother. Catherine died November 18,1918. Her husband followed her a few months later. They are buried side-by-side in the Ogden City Cemetery behind the Dee family. Their dead babies are there along with an infant granddaughter and an infant great-grand-daughter. Two of their daughters, Primrose and Martha Jane, with part of their families are also there, together once more, under the pine trees.