TITLE PAGE PIONEER (full name) BIR TH (date and place) DEA TH (date and place) PARENTS MARRIED (who and date) ARRIVAL IN UTAH (date) (Company arrived with) HISTORY (who wrote) (date written) (who submitted) (address) Harriet Nash Welch 17 April 1831-Horsted Kaines, Sussex, Eng. 25 September 1894-Morgan, Utah Charles Nash Mary Day Thomas Robert Green Welch 2 7 August 1855 12 September 1857 Captain Jesse B. Martin Company Isabella Elizabeth Welch Butters Lois Butters Peterson - 17 October 1980 Morgan, Utah 84050 CAMP & GOUNTY SUBMITTING S_o_u_t_h_M____,o"'"r....::g:.....a_n ________ Camp M_o_r....;g;;;...a__n ___________ County (Camp Historian & address)- --M-a~rga-r-et -M-cK-inn-on- -- --- --- - Morgan, Utah 84050 County Historian & address) Veloy Tonks Dickson ____ __;. _______________ PO Box 203, Morgan, Utah 84050 SOURCE OF INFORMATION & PAGE NUMBERS : MY MGrHER BY Elizebeth Welch Butters My mother, Harriet Nash Welch, was the daughter of Charles Nash and Mary Day. Of the first twenty years of her life I know but very little. She was born April 17, 1831 at .tt orsted Kaines, Sussex, E. ngland. She was the oldest of thirteen children and early had to work away fran home to help supp?rt the family. She had a w, nder1lul training as a hou~ekeeper and cook in the families of the rich, though she had but little schooling. It is a m.ngular things, but the Charles Nash family was never all under the same roof or a home at one time in all their lives. Harriet began service as a chambermaid and worked her way up until she wts head cook in a gentleman's family. She also worked in a Wealthy Jewish family and learned of their manners and customs. She secured a nice position in a family at the beautiful seashore c i ty of Brighton about flity miles .from her home in "''':, London. While working in Brighton she became acquainted with oome Latter-Day Saints arrl began to investigate the Gospel. After attending the meetings for &'.>me t ime she was convinced of its truth and requested baptism. She was baptized into the church on the first day of October, 1853, by Eider Ja.roos Pitman and confirmed a Member on the next day by the same mn that baptized her. Her future husband, Thomas liobert Gree'n Welch., was working in Brighton in a large dry goods establishment and the two were brought together through the meetings of- the Latter-Day Saints. He was four years her junior, having been · born July 10, 1835 at Shepton Mallet Sonunersetshire, Lrigland. He was baptized by Elder William H. Kimball in Brieqt9P o~ September 20, 1854, and was confirmed on the twenty-fourth of the same month by Elder .Samuel Francis. About six weeks after joining the church she became very much exercised over 3'22 a testimony for herself for the divinity of the work. She had attended her meetings r egularly am had the b rethern and sisters testify that they knew the Gospel was true and that it wa s indeed the wark c:,f the Lord. She believed this with all her heart and in r eading her Bible it seemed like a new book since her baptism and confinnation. 'In.ere was still something lacking to give her that peace of mind that she so much desired. She took the .AP?stle James advice and decided to ask the Lord that s he might know of a surety for herself of the truthfulness of the Oospelshe had accepted. She was still working in service in a gentleman ts home and she and another young lady occupied the same ro om though each had her own bed. One evening after coming from meeting liler e she had heard members, both men and wanen, bear their testimonies, she called on the lord in mi~hty prayer and told him that if it was his work, to give her a testimony that she might be able to rise and bear it to any and all that she knew the Gospel was true as well as they. After r etiring she lay medi ta.ting upon the joy that f i lled her heart since her conversion, when suddenly the room was filled with a roost glorious light and she was told of the truthfulness of the work of the Lord . The other young woman also saw the light md cried out, "Oh, Harriot, the house is on fire" . ~other told her that the house was not on f1re but t hat she had just received a manifestation from the !.-Ord of the truthfulness of the Gospel. Trui.t testimony always remlil.ned with her to the end of her days and like the spark that kirxiles the fire, grew brighter as the years went by and no matter what trial came to h er, poverty or siclmess, the loss of children and loved ones, her faith never wavered. S}V3 was as true as steel and fought the fieht to the end • She continued in attendance at meetin gs and was faithful in the paJ'!Tlent of l her tithes and fast donatio ns until her marriage. After joining the church the gospel was so plain t o her that she went home to tell hP.r people of t he glorious tidings s he had r eceived and W'len she told her story, her fatre r turns her out doors, for he did not want anything to do l:ith Mormonism. On August 27, 1855 she was married to Thomas R. G. Welch and they at once becan to save mesns to emigrate to Zion, for they felt that with the Saints their future home should be made . On July 25, 1856, a oo n born, Thomas F. Welch. They worked and saved during t he winter and were faithful members of the b r anch. On Satm·day, 1'1ar ch 28, 1857 they sailed fran Liverpool, Eneland on the s hip, "George Washingtcn, 11 for Boston, u.s.11.. There were eieht hu.rdred and seventeen l atter-Day Saints oo board under directi.on of James l'. Park bound for Utah. They were throe weeks on the ocean and after arriv:lng in Bost;lon they proceeded westward to the place of rutfi tting for trip to Utah . Father drove Ox- team a cross the plains, but mother could not ride as the wagons were t oo heav i l y l oaded. They came in Cap tain Jesse B. Martin's company, arriving in Salt Lake City, September 12 , 1857. Mother walked all the way and woded evory stream as she came to except the Platte River which the company cr ossed on a ferry boat. She carried her on year old child on her back t he entire distance . After arriving in the val lcy the move was on and she -went south as far as Lehi while Father .as sent into Eaho Canyon to help keep the soldiers back. After the wmter set in and there was no need for so many men m the frontier fat~r went to Le hi. A daup,er was born October, 20, 1856, ; They a f ound a good friend m the person Bishop Israel Evans -who wa s kmd and ccnsiderate of tti ose ~ho wer e poor and needy 3 They returned to Salt Lake City in 1860 and on April 4 they received their ':;~O endouments and were sealed by President Brigham Young. Father secured work from Jesse C. Little who was a couselor to the re-siding Bishop Edward Hunter. The work was in Weber Valley so he put in the summer on a farm while mother remained in Salt Lake City. On October 4, 1860, a son was born and when six weeks old father took mother into Weber Valley . They lived in a log shack belonging to Elder Little during the winter of 60 1 and 61 1 and had nothing but boiled wheat to eat. The log hut was covered with willows, straw and covering of dirt and every time it rained the house was worse than outdoors because the water was dirty. Who can ever tell of the poverty and hardships of those early pioneers in that valley? Father, Robert Hogg and William Hemming put part of a s ack of wheat on their backs and walked over the mountain into Davis County and had it ground and carried back the flour to get a little br ead. Another time he l ashed two sacks of wheat to the hounds of the waeon, used the rectch for the tongue and took his yoke of cattle and went right over mountains west of Morgan into ·J FanninJ ton to get wheat ground to make bread. There was not or has there ever been a road over these mountains and he was gone so long that we children thoubht he would never come back home • Whan her third son was born, November 11 , 1862, they had to use umbrellas made \.I of skins to keep the wate:- out of the bed as the house leaked so badly. She was the mother of nine children, seven boys and two girls, one girl and one boy dying in infancy. and one boy died with diphtheria when eighteen years old. Ona of the great trials of her pioneer life was cookine over a fireplace and oh, how she -longed and prayed' for a stove in which to cook . She used to tell of a dream she had in the days of poverty, in which she s aw a stove that could 4 be bou~ht for fifteen cents but she did not have the fifteon cents with which to :J?:, m:tke the purchaGe . After living in Littleton a year or two the family moved to Morgan , and built a log cabin on the corner wher e the road turn~ northward from Mo rgan , to }:ilton, known as Welch ' s corner , where they lived until they passed away. Later they built a new home now owned by Rich Waldron. When the Primary Association was organized in Hor gan Stake in 1878, she was chosen Stako President of that organization , which position she held at the time of her death, September 25 , 1394. At this same time she a cted for twelve years ~ as pr esident of the Ward Primary . On one occasion the children were singing the son£: , "Open the Door to the Children" and she received the inspiration then and ·1 I . 1 there to have the·children gather means and help emigrate poor children from the old country , which was accomplished and she furnished some of them a home until they gr ew to man and womanhood. Her home was ah.;ays filled with some poor orphan child or children as well as her own . She was sick for many years before she died and suffered a great deal , but throueh it all she put her trust in the Lord. Of the five sons and one daughter who crew to man and Woll3nhood and married, three of them filled missions and her husband mada a trip to England before her ~ -~ death and with what the boys had done gathered considerablp genealogy and the work s { for her kindred was begun by her in the Templ es of the Lord. No per son was more beloved by children than this woman and when she died she ~ , was literally buried in a gr ave of flowers that children and grown folks had brought f r om all over the Horgan Stake in tokens of the love and respect in which ; r, I she was held by all who knew h'e r. .5 Read in South Morgan Camp D. U. P 17 Oct 1980 • By: Lois Butters Peterson