Historical Society Recently Mrs. Lois Peterson submitted to the Historical So¬ciety a very interesting history of the Pioneer Monument of the Morgan County Daughters of Utah Pioneers. This monument is located behind the Morgan 1st and 2nd Wards building, near the log cabin which "is the birth¬place of Charles Russell Stevens, the first white boy born in Morgan County, September 23rd, 1857. The cabin was moved from its original site in Peterson..." (Taken from the plaque on the monument.) It is interesting to learn that "Some of these rocks represent pioneer industries, others came from buildings erected by the pioneers, and some from streams and canyons used by the people who first settled in Morgan County. The rocks were donated by members of the Mt. Joy Camp and the South Morgan Camp and a detailed record of their con¬tributions was kept by Hattie Robison Heiner and Mary Hansen Chadwick. Using these rocks, the monument was built in June 1937 by Charles Young. The DUP record tells us that Hattie Robison Heiner donated a rock from the place where Jabin Robison's barn was, where later Daniel Williams built a home in 1868, and his wife Harriet kept the Post Office and taught school there. Two rocks came from the springs in North Morgan. Rachel Robison Rogers selected rocks from the spring named for her father, William Robison. Sarah Carlson Robison selected her rock from the Daniel Robison Spring, as a souvenir of the physical labors, in tilling the soil and helping to build up and maintain a common wealth. Captain Vinney Clayton took a trip up Echo Canyon May 22, 1937, and gathered rocks to be placed in the monument in mem¬ory of all the noble pioneers who came through Echo Canyon. Lottie Robison Grover selected a rock from a old building on the Conrad Smith property (he was a first class mason) representing early industry and substantial workmanship of the early pi¬oneers. Daughter Rachel Heiner gave a rock out of her father's granary wall, and Amy West Heiner selected a rock and a piece of brick from the home of George Heiner which was built in 1874. All the material that was used in the house, George did work for. He hauled wood from the hills with oxen to pay for his brick which were made by Charles Turner. Lavina Robison Redden gave rock from what use to be her father's property. A piece of red sandstone from the hills of Round Valley was donated by Mable Boyce Heiner. The rock was made into a grindstone by Martin Heiner, a pioneer of 1863, who also built the first rock house in the county in 1865. Ruth Stewart Palmer and Fern Lowe Palmer gathered rocks from the old Henry Rock lot, which was later purchased by Thomas Palm¬er, one of the pioneers of the county. Winnie Grover Farnsworth gathered rocks from the land of her father, Thomas Grov¬er. And Blanch Thackeray Rees donated a red sandstone rock from the home of her pioneer father, George Thackeray, in Croydon, to represent the pione¬ers of that community. Captain Luch Robison Turner furnished a rock from the found¬ation of the Daniel Robison home built in 1865. Jenna Brough Rich obtained a granite rock from Big Cottonwood Canyon, the same as used in the Salt Lake Temple. Olive Hemming donated a rock from the old home of William Hemming. Mable Jones Hem¬ming and Harriet Stevens gave rock from Deep Creek. Daughter Isabel Welsh Butters, her daughter Afton Butters Brough and May Chapin Butters gave rocks from Watchman 's Lookout Tower in Memory Grove in Salt Lake City. Laura Simmons Geary gave a rock from the foundation of the first brick house built in the county by her father, George Simmons. Maggie Taggart Francis obtain¬ed four rocks from Hardscrabble Canyon, one from the Bradt farm, one from Francis' cellar where the family first lived in Morgan, and Pearl Rollins Hard¬ing gave rocks from the house of the Daniel Bull family built in 1861. Mary Hansen Chadwick gave one rock from Devil's Gate, where the first road into the valley was made; two from the foundation of the old grist mill at Richville; two from Line Creek; two from Swan (Smith) Creek; one from Peterson Creek; and one from the spot where the first house in Weber Valley was built by the Peterson family in 1855; also a rock from Bryce Canyon and one from the foundation of the first school house in South Morgan. Daughter Elizabeth Hyde Geary gave two rocks from China Town up Lost Creek, one from Como Springs, one granite rock and one of calsite formation taken from the North Morgan Spring. Nettie Newburger Rich gave five rocks from the foundation of the old Simmons Dance Hall. Perhaps the first bunding built here for that purpose. Elizabeth Chapin Waldron donated rocks from the old home of the Waldron farm. Three rocks from the old wall or fort which was erected by William Eddington as a protection against the Indians were donated by Catherine Campbell Eddington. Martha Porter Rose donated two rocks from Weber Canyon. And Lovina Peterson Young obtained several rocks from Lost Creek; one from the old Peterson school, one from the Henry Rock home in North Morgan. She also gave the old mill stone which was taken from the old grist mill that was in Richville. The rock is quartsite, and came from Germany. These heavy stones were placed in the bottom of ships to prevent them from tipping. They were hauled across the plains by oxen and brought to Utah in 1866. A number of rocks used were from the Morgan Stake House, they were brought from the quarry in 1877. Daughter Jane Stevens Foote selected a rock from near her birthplace in Echo canyon, which was near a large rock by the side of the present state highway. Children living in Echo Canyon would sit on this rock and watch the trains pass. Sometimes the passengers would throw oranges out the window to them. Annie Foote Sommers bought a rock from the place she was living in. It had been used as a weight on the family bean jar. Caroline Ager Compton contributed a rock containing galena ore, an import¬ant source of lead, found in Cottonwood Canyon in 1930. Maggie Taggart Francis gave a large red sandstone rock which her father, George H. Taggart, brought from upper Lost Creek fifty years ago, also a rock taken from the Thousand Mile Tree in the narrows between Devils Slide and Henefer, Utah. This information makes this monument a very interesting landmark in Morgan. The purpose for the monument -"We the daughters of these valiant pioneers gathered these rocks to build a monument to their honor, that their descend¬ants may revere their memories and keep in mind the sacrifices they made in subduing the waste places and making it possible for us to enjoy the present prosperity of this county." If you haven't done so recently, take a few minutes, visit the site, and pay tribute to our early pioneers, and the fine DUP groups in our county.