BIOGRAPHY OF ADRIA BROUGH RICH (Pioneer) Came to Utah in 1864 Written by ADRIA RICH PORTER, Her daughter For Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Utah. Morgan County, Utah October 10, 1935 read 10 Adria Elizabeth Brough Rich was born in Madison Co, Illinois, October 13, 1859 settled with the saints there. At the time of her birth they were enduring many hardships both from the evil disigning people as well as lacking some of the necessities of life. Prior to that time they were well-to-do people, and left a good home and comforts in England, for the gospel sake. They left Nauvoo, Illinois with the saints April 1864, traveling with ox teams. They started with two yoke of oxen and one cow, but on the way two oxen died and they were compelled to use the cow in the team. The cow also supplied them with milk all the way, and lived and served the family for years after reaching Utah. Their journey across the plains was rather tiresome yet they enjoyed themselves with the thought that they were coming to Zion where they could worship the Lord according to the dictates of their own conscience. At night they would join in songs of praise to God for His protecting care thus far. One little incident occured on the way which my Mother remembers to this day. Useing her own language it is as fol¬lows; "We children were all seated on the ground under the wagon eating our supper of mush and milk, when a wind, arose covering our supper with sand. I remember how some of the children cried because their supper was spoiled." They arrived in Utah in September 1864. They settled in Porterville, Morgan Co. and all winter lived in a dug-out in the side of the hill. This dug-out is still there in part. 11 Their food supply during the first year was very scant indeed. They were forced to grind their grain thru a coffee mill to make their bread. You can only imagine the texture of such bread. They also used sego roots and all kinds of greens. The grain for their needs for the first winter was brought with them across the continent, like the bees, they provided for themselves in advance. The following spring her father built a brick kiln, having learned the trade in England. He made brick all summer, and before the year was closed he had completed a house for himself and family as well as furnishing brick for another large house. These were the first bricks made in Morgan Co. The first one built was built and owned by my Father-in-law, Lyman W. Porter, he lived in this house until his death, March 31, 1914. This house is still standing strong and sub¬stantial, and it is very interesting to note that this is the home of my father and mother today. Her mother, Jane Patterson Brough, practiced medicine throughout Morgan Co. Where she saved the lives of hundreds of people. She had a wonderful knowledge of herbs, and her faith in the Priesthood made her success marvelous. She used herbs raised in her own garden, some of which are; yarrow, wormwood, tansy, sage, hoarhound, grape root, licorice root, Indian root, different kinds of mint, and catnip. She also used the bark of the choke cherry tree. She was an exper¬ienced "mid-wife" and thru her practice of obstetrics she helped to bring into the world hundreds of babies. She had a kind winning disposition, and one could see upon first meeting her that she had unusual talent and ability. She was a 12 very good home maker. During her girlhood my mother and her brother Samuel helped their father at the brick kiln. They would work all day car¬rying the wet bricks, and laying them in rows on the ground to dry in the sun for adobes and the bricks in the kiln to be burned. She and Samuel hauled hay. Mother, when a young woman, had many suitors, and was finally won by Thomas Rich, an honest young man twelve years her senior. They were married in the Endowment house, December 4, 1876. They lived simply, yet always had plenty to eat. Mother was a good cook, and never wasted anything. They used candles in the early part of their married life as a great deal of the time was spent in the mountains, getting out timber for the lumber camps. After leaving the canyons they lived in a one room dirt roofed log house, and the rain would often leak thru the roof on to the bed. Accompaning herewith is a photograph of this house, in which by the way, was the house in which my twin brother and I were born. Later this house was moved a distance of one and a half miles south and placed on their farm. This farm remained theirs until 1933, when they sold it for a reasonable figure. Mother was an excellent butter maker. Her butter was in demand by people from far and near. She would sometimes out away several gallons of butter and also cheese, in crock jars, adding more salt to the butter, and a little brandy to the cheese. Prepared in this way it would keep almost in¬definitely. The Indians often called at our home and exchanged 13 beads for butter, bread and butter-milk. At one time she made a shirt for an Indian Chief. She made her laundry soap from grease scraps and lye. The lye sometimes made from wood ashes. She often dyed old worn out clothing for rugs and carpets, the dye made from the following: copper as for yellow, log-wood for black, rabbit brush for green, indego for blue. She also prepared wool for yarn by washing, spinning and sometimes dying. Then would knit the yarn into sox, stockings, and mittens for the family. She was an expert at making salt rising bread. She was hospitable and charitable and her home was open to people coming from far and near. Often her home was the abode for strangers for weeks at a time and no thot of pay was ever entertained. In Jamuary of 1896, her husband went on a mission to the Southern States. During this time payments had to be made on the farm. These payments were met, the family provided for, and the expenses of the missionary, were all supplied by the careful supervision and work of this little woman. I remember she used to make Ice-cream and sell at different public events in the ward to add a few more cents to the small income. In 1893 when the Porterville ward Chapel was being erected she boarded the stone cutters who cut the stones for that building. She has made hundreds of yards of carpet and hundreds of patch work quilts, has made thirty-two quilts of one design, and given most of them away as presents. 14 She is the mother of ten children, six girls and four boys. At this writing she has thirty-three grand children and four¬teen great grand children. The children in the order of their births are: Henrietta, Emily Jane, Joseph and Adria, twins, Emeline, Benjamine, Thomas, Arnol Coulsen, Samantha Ann, Hosea, and Ruth. Five of these have died. The first to die was Joseph two months old. He died without a struggle and was not sick at all. Benjamine died at five years. Hosea at eleven months and Ruth at three months. Arnol C. died at the age of thirty-four, leaving a wife and five children. At the death of each of the children she was brave and tho it was extremely hard she was reconciled to the Lord's will. Her brother Wm's wife died at the birth of one of her children, Mathias Cowley Brough, and at the request of the father she took the baby. She gave him the care as only a real mother can and was even more cautious than with her own children, yet with all of this special care the baby died at the age of one year. Mother's heart was almost broken now as her last two babies had died young. But thru it all she said, "Thy will be done." She has lived to see all of her living children well married all temple marriages. She has held responsible positions as follows: Secretary of the Relief Society, when sixteen years old, Sunday School Teacher, Primary and Relief Society Ward Presidents and Sup¬ervisor in the Morgan Stake on the Relief Society Stake Board. After raising and educating their family, thru their frugality and by heeding the counsel of the church authorities 15 in regard to keeping out of debt and strictly observing the law of tithing they are today in well-to-do circumstances. She has a quiet and reserved disposition and is always doing good for others. She was always called to assist in laying away the dead of the ward and has helped make all of the Temple clothes for people of the ward until recent years, as this is now discontinued. May the Lord Bless and comfort her in her declining years and after her mission is finished here may she receive the reward she has so nobly won, that of Eternal Life in the Celestial Kingdom of our Lord.