Janet McNiven Hogg done Janet McNiven Hogg was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, Oct. 14, 1826. Her father died when she was three years of age; her mother, ten years later leaving her an orphan at thirteen. It was necessary for her to support herself, and she entered the employ of a Doctor's family. The experience gained here was very useful to herself and others later. She was left a widow with two children early in life. She left them to be cared for by other people while she worked for their support, but finding this very unsatisfactory, started a laundry on a small scale and was very successful, becoming financially independent. After having the privilege of hearing the Mormon Elders, she became convinced their message was true. Disposing of her business, she left Liverpool, with her two children, on the ship ‘Underwriter’. Milo Andrews, Homer Duncan and Charles W. Penrose were in charge of the company of Saints which arrived in New York, May 22, 1861. She had brought a quantity of clothing, bed linen, and china from her home, but was advised to sell them before crossing the plains. This she did at a great sacrifice, which was quite a trial as she expected to have them to help maker her new home. She obtained oxen, a wagon and a cow to cross the plains with and shard them with another family, thus making it necessary for her to walk a great part of the way. Suiting herself as best she could to the new conditions, and using her native thrift and genius to make the trip as pleasant and comfortable as possible, resorted to many unique methods to supply themselves with some comforts, one of which was, to fasten a pail of milk on the back of the wagon. The constant motion would churn butter for their meals. Arriving in Salt Lake in the fall of 1861, she was married to Robert Hogg and in 1862 they moved to Morgan County where they lived until the time of their death. From this union two children were born. A son, Robert, who died in childhood from small-pox, and a daughter, now Mrs. A.O. Durrant of Morgan, City. Mother held many positions of trust, she was active in Relief Society and Primary. There being no doctor in the settlement she was called to assist in sickness and was very successful in this, attending the birth of six hundred babies, with very few fatalities. She was a woman of great faith and always had the priesthood present in sickness. She passed away at her home in Morgan, August 1, 1897 and was buried in the cemetary there. By…… Mrs. A.O. Durrant.