Emma Sanford Hemming Mrs. Emma Sanford Hemming was born September 26, 1830 in Warnickshire, England. Her mother died when she was 3 1/2 years old; her father married again. They didn't treat her very well so she went to live with her grand-mother and stay¬ed there until she was thirteen, moving to Hoaknorton, she married William Hemming August 31, 1851. They joined the church, November 10, 1852, then came to New York. When she landed she had two girls, one died. She gave birth to a baby boy and he also died. That was a hard trial for her, because they took the children away and buried them she knew not where; she gave birth to another girl. They started across the plains May 6, 1860, in the Daniel Robison Hand-cart Company. She walked and, with her husband, pulled the hand-cart all the way with her two children in it. They arrived in Salt Lake City August 27, 1860, being nearly four months on the plains. In three months they moved to Morgan County, where she lived the rest of her life and went through all the hardships of early days. They had to grind wheat in the coffee mill to make flour for bread; she washed for fifty cents a day to help keep her family; she was the mother of nine children; she was an honest tithe payer; she was teacher in the relief Society for a number of years and was a faithful Latter-day Saint; she lived to the age of 83 years. She was laid away beside her husband in the South Morgan cemetary. by Mrs. Emma Hemming Rich