Mrs. Samuel Coffin. Ann, who later became the wife of Richard Fry, had been converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by her brother and was baptized by him in 1845. Richard Fry accepted the gospel and was baptized and confirmed a member ofthe Church on 27 January 1857, by Elder W. H. Barnett at Exeter, Devonshire, England. Richard's parents were very displeased when he joined the Church. Neither the parents nor any of his brothers or sisters were ever converted to the Mormon faith. Richard became discontent with his life in England and he resolved to emigrate to Utah. On 25 March I860 he married Ann Rawle and two days later they sailed with several hundred other emigrants from Liverpool, England, on board the ship Underwriter. They were not the only newlyweds on the ship. James Tucker and his wife, who was related to Ann, were married in Liverpool at the same time. These couples crossed the ocean and the plains together, and finally settled and lived as neighbors in Morgan City, Utah. On the sea, Richard was made superintendent of a ward. About twenty days out, he celebrated his twenty-ninth birthday. Alter five weeks at sail they landed safely at New York harbor, 1 May I860. Traveling by rail and boat Richard and Ann, with other emigrants, made their way to Florence, Nebraska, where they remained for five weeks to organize themselves for the long trek across the plains. The Fry and the Tucker families bought their equipment together, food, a wagon, two yoke of oxen and two cows. None ofthe animals had been yoked before. They had to be broken to it. Neither Richard or James Tucker had ever driven oxen before. They joined the James D. Ross Company where at the start, Richard was made captain over ten wagons. They had the usual hardships of such a journey and encountered hostile Indians along the way, but arrived safely in Salt Lake City on Ann's birthday, 3 September I860, after eleven weeks of difficult travel. To celebrate the occasion, Richard bought his wife a glass of beer that day. She never forgot it, so cool, sparkling and delightfully refreshing! It cast twenty-five cents. The young couple spent two weeks in Salt Lake City, a mere village then, skirted by willows, trees, and an expansive lake. Fall was approaching. They were concerned about a home and food for themselves and their animals for the winter. Brigham Young suggested they go to Weber Valley, now known as Morgan, to settle. So the Frys and the Tuckers parted temporarily. The Tuckers stayed in Salt Lake Valley for the winter and the Frys, with two other families, the Daniel Bulls and the Richard Norwoods, drove their wagons up through Weber Canyon to Morgan. It took them two weeks to make the trip. They had to take the wagons apart to bring them over part of the hill in Devil's Gate. They strapped parts of their wagons and belongings on the oxen and made several trips as they unloaded their equipment and supplies and returned for the rest of their load. The women walked and carried what they could. They spent one week camped in the canyon during the process of getting through Devil's Gate. They continued their journey up the Valley on the west side of the Weber River. 242