Mary Ann Peterson Stevens. no 20 this has been read done Mary Ann Peterson Stevens was born in Burlington County, New Jersey, December 25, 1839. She was the daughter of Charles Sreeve Peterson and Ann B. Dennis. Her mother died when she was four years old. There were two brothers; George, who was older than Mary Ann, and Andrew, younger. In the autumn of 1849, they came to Utah with their father and stepmother, walking most of the way across the plains. In January 1855, her father settled at Mountainville (Alpine) Utah County. In 1854 she was married to my father, Rosewell Stevens and in 1855 they, and her father's family, came to Weber Valley. They were among the first white settlers in the valley. She endured all the hardships of pioneering in a new country including the grasshooner plague. On December 14, 1855 she gave birth to her first child, it being the first white girl born in Weber Valley (now Morgan County). About 1860 they moved to Centerville; she then had three children. A wind storm came and blew off the roof of the house they were living in and she and her children ran to a stable with a straw roof on it. This was the only house they had until the storm was over and the roof was put back onto their house. Two more children were born while she lived in Centerville. At the time they started to build the railroad my parents moved to Echo and they were moved out of their hut, in a rain storm, in order for the railroad company to set a telegraph pole where the hut stodd. The only place for them to get shelter was in a dugout in the side of the hill. This dugout was my birth place on October 18, 1866. Two years later they moved to Echo Canyon where my father had taken up some land. Before he could build a house to move Into, mother gave birth to her seventh child. This was on September 20, 1869, and the only home they had waa under a ledge of rock. A few years later father sold his ranch in Echo Canyon to the Heiner brothers, and we moved to Upton, Summit County, Utah, They had a few sheep and mother corded her own wool and spun it into yarn and knit socks and stockings for her family. When the diphtheria epidemic broKe out in Summit County and so many people died, my father was the only carpenter there and he made the coffins. My mother covered them with blacK calico and padded the inside with cotton, lined them With bleach and trimmed them with lace. She gave birth to eleven children and never had a doctor when any of them were born. She raised all but her youngest child to maturity and they all married and had large families. The youngest child died when only six weeks old. She was a widow for forty-four years and made a living by nursing. She spent the last eleven years of her life with me in my home In Morgan; during the world war she knitted socks for the soldiers. she lived a good and useful life and was never idle. She died February 9, 1924 at the age eighty-four years. by Mrs. Jane Foote.