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Show EMILY LONORA MARY ELLEN SARAH Joseph farmed and raised an orchard. Deanna sued for divorce. Ellen was mother of seven children. In April of 1853 Joseph was called on a mission to Great Britian. He served as President of a Conference there and upon his release was placed in charge of a company of emigrants, converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Upon reaching America the converts formed a handcart company and started the long trek across the plains. In this company were Ellen Harrod, her family and a friend, Adelaide Gyde. In 1856 Joseph married Ellen and Adelaide in Salt Lake City. (Sometime before 1870 Joseph and Mary Ellen had acquired property in Mountain Green, Morgan County.) In 1870 Joseph and Mary Ellen sold to the Union Pacific Rail¬road a strip of land, 1000 by 50 feet, on each side of the tracks as a right of way through their property. They were paid $150.00. This land abutted the property of Lee Clark and David B. Bybee. Joseph moved Adelaide and her eight children onto the Mountain Green farm where they raised hay, grain, garden vegetables and milked a herd of dairy cows. The surplus from the garden and dairy was toted down the railroad track to Uintah where they were exchanged for groceries and other staples. Adelaide's children were Emily, Lenora, Mary Ellen, Sarah, Brittamore, Jeddediah, Matilda and Lavina. Two more children, Clarissa and Francis Joseph, were born in Mountain Green. Adelaide was a fiesty little English woman with very pink cheeks, according to family members. She took no nonsense from anyone. One hot summer day she came in from her chores to find a hobo peacefully snoozing on her bed. She flew at him with a butcher knife and he beat a hasty retreat, swearing he meant no harm. Adel¬aide was not convinced. In later years Adelaide returned to Centerville where she lived the remainder of her life. She became a familiar figure around the county as she drove her hand- 170 BRITTAMORE |