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Show Pg. 106 No records of the Morgan County Militia can be found now, but Mrs. Annie S. Dickson has personally interviewed a number of former residents of Morgan County, now living at Vernal, Utah, and other places, and has obtained firsthand information from them regarding the military tactics in early days. We have a partial list of the old Indian War Veterans who served under Territorial orders, to protect themselves and the early settlers from the Indians in the early history of Morgan County: in 1867: George A. Davis, Captain, Philemon C. Merrill, David J. Ross, Colonel, Samuel Francis, Recorder, Ephraim Robison, Thomas Grover, George Heiner, Daniel Heiner, David Coolbear, William Dickson, Thomas Rich, Walter Norris, (Randolph UT) Benjamin F. Smith, Thomas Adams, George Simmons, Conrad Smith, Henry Rock, David Robison, William Robison, Daniel Robison, Wyman Parker, Truelove Manchard, Christopher Johnson, Andrew Paulson, Ole Gorder, Simon Murphy, Albert D. Dickson, Judson Dickson, Peter Peterson, Money Welch. Pg. 107 Captain George A. Davis came, with his father’s family, into Morgan County in 1860 or 61. They came from Massachusetts, and lived first at Littleton. His mother was the first person buried in the Littleton cemetery. His sister married Thomas J. Thurston. Mr. Davis married Eliza Weaver, who came from England with the Burn family. He built a house of hued logs, where the Thomas Butters home now is. He was employed as a clerk in the William Eldington store, and was the first manager of the Z. C. M. I. Mr. Davis was a splendid man. Tall and straight, dark eyes and black hair. He had a wonderful personality. He had been a Black Hawk war veteran. His friends say it was not strange that he was chosen captain, because he was an ideal leader. He was a man of reliability and strength of character. His son, Charles A. Davis of Vernal, Utah, says he has heard his father speak of the early militia in Morgan. And how the men used to drill on the Flat, South of town, near the Warm Springs. He says his father was captain and used to wear badges, with |