Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together Brigham Young had told the pioneers it was better to feed the Indians than fight them, so when two Indians came to the open door asking for "Bisket, bisket," she got a few biscuits for them. It took only seconds, but was enough time for the Indians to take the baby. She screamed for John who went after them. He caught up with them in the vicinity of what is now Young Street and Second East and was able to get his daughter back. John periodically walked over the mountain to Centerville or Salt Lake City taking produce he had grown and exchanged it for items for his family. Once he brought back red flannel to make clothing. He was an industrious man. Besides farming the land, he built a sawmill and a brickyard. The red clay hills were ideal for making bricks. He acquired approximately the west half of the block where later Morgan's first Stake House was built. The third Ager daughter, Sarah Amelia, was bom March 5,1867. John prepared a cellar or dug-out for his family to live in near where he was building a new brick house on the southwest corner of the new property, and he let a widow, Martha Slade, and her young daughter, Amelia, have the cabin in the field. Amelia commented on their wonderful home; it had a door and two windows. Home of John Ager and Caroline Coolbear A: John worked on the new house until it was ready for the roof to be put on. Then a very tragic accident happened. In 1868 there was no bridge across the Weber River. It was high water time and John and two other men were crossing the river in a boat or raft to get supplies. The boat capsized and John could not swim. The men had all they could do to save themselves, but John drowned. His body was not found until six weeks later about ten miles downstream. It was June 9, 1868, and he was the first white man drowned in Morgan's part of the river. Only a couple of months later, on August 12,1868, Caroline's mother, Mary Ann Barnard Coolbear, died. Caroline did her best to provide for her three little girls, all under the age of six. Every day she made a large crock of homemade live yeast and it seemed everyone in town used her yeast, paying with flour. As soon as Mary Ellen was old enough to tend the other girls, Caroline did housework for anyone who wanted help. I never heard when the house was finished. However, when it was finished, meetings and dances were sometimes held there, and when the men went hunting, the women and children would bring their bedding and have a "sleep over" on the floor. Caroline married David Ross, and later married James Durrant. She raised a grandson, Bert Allen, after his mother, Mary Ellen, died. Caroline and James added two rooms to the house and made it more comfortable. They always had a lovely garden and plenty of fruit and vegetables. The house was set back from the street and there were lovely flowers on each side of the walk. She loved flowers and spent many hours among them. She furnished flowers for funerals on many occasions. She was always busy with her flowers, knitting, making rag rug carpets and quilts. The last year of her life she lived with her second daughter, Caroline, and her husband, George Compton. ©£)■ John Anderson and Gunhilda Gulbransen Anderson Pioneers from Sweden/Norway to Milton, Utah John Anderson was born June 18,1839, in Habo, Sverrig Sweden, the son of Andrew Carlsen and his mother. He grew up in his native country by the name of Johan Anderson Thomell. He was well educated, loved music and learned the trade of tailoring clothing. He later traveled to Norway, where he sewed clothing for Norse sailors on the outskirts of Christiannia, now known as Oslo, Norway. It was here that he met and married Gunhild Gulbransen. She was born on Christmas Eve day, December 24, 1838, in Trogstad, Ostfold, Norway. She was a lovely dark-haired woman, well educated, musically