DUP Club News The Morgan Camp of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers held their meeting Friday in the DUP building. Captain Elma Dickson conduc¬ted the meeting. Prayer given by LoRaine Wilkinson. Singing direc¬ted by Dorene Rowser with LoRaine Wilkinson at the piano. Ida O'Driscoll led in Pledge of Allegiance. A history of the Croydon Cemetery, written by Horace Thackeray was read by Margaret Thackeray. The Croydon Cemetery is locted on a 40 acre brush flat on the road leading to Henefer. It was donated to the Croydon Ward by W.H. Toone Sr. About three acres of the original forty encompass the actual burial site. In the 1930s this three acre plot was fenced to keep animals out. Mark Thackeray, in the year 1969, began improving the cemetery. Water was pumped and piped from a nearby spring, and grass was planted. Many people helped also in these projects to make this a lovely hillside resting place. The lesson was given by Gail Birt. It was "Important Journals." She told about William H. Kelgore, who recorded so vividly his trip to California. April 12, 1850, they left Lee County, Iowa. It was cold and windy. Oats cost 35 cents per bushel. Corn 40 cents and scarce. Traveling with him was his father, Matthew Kilgore and R.D. Kepley. His day by day record told of traveling through heavy storms, camping sometimes without wood and very poor water. Provisions and grain were scarce and very costly in some places — $2 a bushel for corn and $9 a hundred for hard bread. They arrived in Salt Lake City June 23, 1850. They stayed nine days and his record tells of the accomplishments the pioneers had made in three years since their arrival. He was not a Latter-day Saint and so they continued on to California, crossing the Grat American Desert and the Sierra Mountains. Aug. 5, they reached Placerville, Calif. Provisions were plentiful. Men are coming here from the plains, searching for gold. Even digging here in the middle of the streets. There is much sickness also. His journal ends upon reaching the Sacra¬mento Valley. At the end of the meeting, refreshments were served. Ice cream and all kinds of toppings. On the committee were Dorothy Wright, Clara Beth Rich and Deleen Sommers.