WADSWORTH, ABIAH 1851 SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ABIAH WADSWORTH, SR. BY MARTHA ANN HARDY WADSWORTH Abiah Wadsworth, his wife Eliza Hardy and family of six children, were pioneers of 1852, arriving in Salt Lake City with Captain Day's Company, September 17,1852. They remained one day in Salt Lake City, then Brigham Young called them to join a company who were going to settle in a small place then called East Weber, now Uintah, Weber Co. Here they lived until the fall of 1858, when they moved to a small town in Weber Canyon called Mountain Green, where they again built homes and useful worked at his trade as a caprenter. He made many different/article to help in the new homes, such as furniture, churns, tubs, Barrel Ferkins, ( a small wood tub or container for storing lard or butter). He was a very good blacksmith, at which trade he worked also. He helped build most of the earliest houses in East Weber, and mountain Green. Early in 1866, the Indians became very troublesome and Brigham Young advised the people of the smaller settlements to move where there were more settlers, and the Wadsworths moved to Morgan. Abiah and his first wife lived in a one room log cabin, on the Ben Smith property. Here again he became very active in helping to build up the community in which he lived, He helped build a grist mill, Saw mill, grainerys, store, bridges, and a number of dwelling houses mostly built of logs. He also acted as bishop for two years of what is now North Morgan Ward, and as he was of a very jolly jovial disposition, he became very popular with the younger people. He was a very good athlete and was missed very much when he moved back to Mountaing Green in early part of 1868. then moved to Hooper in September of the same year. He was the father of 20 children as he had two wives. He later moved to Taylor Idaho, where he again helped to build up a new community. He died April 18,1899 in Taylor, Idaho.