1880 EDWARD PRIEST Edward Priest, third child of William and Martha Allmark Priest, was born 26 April, 1854, in Summercoates, Derbyshire, England. He came to Utah with his parents when he was six years of age. Two and a half weeks after his sister Martha Ann, died on the plains, William wrote in his diary, "I wanted the children to walk all they could while crossing the plains, because it was good for their health. I said that children who rode in the wagon died on the way." Edward walked. Edward lived with his parents in Kaysville and a short time in Mountain Green before moving to Hooper. He also worked with his father in the mines in Almy, Wyo¬ming. In 1876, shortly before he turned 21, he married Mary Beus, daughter of Mi¬chael and Marianne Combe Beus. Mary Ann was born in Italy and crossed the ocean in company with the famous Piedmont Saints. Her birthdate was 17 February, 1851, and she was born in the little village of Pramollo, Torine, Italy. Not yet four years old, she and her family crossed the Alps between Italy and France in late 1855. From here they sailed to England. The Italian Saints cross¬ed the Atlantic early in 1856 on the 'John J. Boyd' ship. They were in the company of other converts from Italy, Denmark and England. The family traveled across the plains with the Edmunds-Ellsworth Handcart Company, arriving in the Great Salt Lake Valley 26 September, 1856. She remember¬ed vividly reaching up and taking her father's hand as they walked the disty trail. On 12 March, 1876, Mary became the bride of Edward Priest. Their first child, William Edward, was born in Ogden in 1876. The family then moved to Uintah where three more children, Martha Ann, James Michael and Mary, were born. Sometime in 1880 the family must have moved to Mountain Green. Edward is listed as actively engaged in the establishment of a better school in the settle¬ment that year. His name is listed in a record book kept by Lucinda V. Roberts Robinson as attending and participating in school committee meetings. The family moved to Evanston, Wyoming, where Charles was born in 1884. While there Edward worked in the coal mines and also for the U.P. Railroad Company. He next became either a conductor or engineer of trains between Idaho Falls and Ogden. 194 EDWARD PRIEST MARY BEUS