life's problems alone. She was strictly economical and everything around her home showed industry; and at her death she owed not a cent to anybody. She was perfectly aware of her approaching end for weeks before. She settled up all her affairs, had her burial clothes made; saw, handled and admired them. She ordered her coffin made by a good carpenter of redwood with silver handles. She wanted her son to bring it home and let her see it, but the family thought that was too much. She gave instructions as to her funeral, and died within twenty-four hours of the time she set. She was a diligent temple worker, and spent much of the later years of her life redeeming her dead; she was a faithful Relief Society worker. For Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together days before she died, she had her little notions brought to her bed and divided them among her large family seeing that every little grandchild had something as a keepsake. She admonished her children to be upright and honorable during their lives. She herself was a strict observer of God's commandments. As her children stood around her bed waiting for the end to come, she told them that her mother and husband had come to escort her to her haven of rest. Then she fell asleep. That sleep that knows no awakening until the resurrection of the just. She died on August 6, 1903, at the age of seventy-three; her remains rest beside those of her husband on the little grave hill at Porterville, Morgan County. William George Brough William George Brough was born in Longton, Staffordshire, England, on July 2, 1855. He was the son of Thomas Brough and Jane Patterson Brough. He came with his parents to America in 1856, living in Madison County, Illinois for eight years. He crossed the plains with an ox team in the Captain Martin Company, which took eleven weeks. Being nine years old, he walked many miles and arrived in Porterville, Morgan County, Utah, on September 18,1864. There were seven children in the family. There were no homes, so they dug a hole in the hillside and lived there for one and a half years. His father was a brickmaker, mason and carpenter. The boys worked with him learning these trades and making the first bricks in Morgan County. They also had a lime kiln, which was a help to mason work in those early days. As a boy he carried drills and picks from the blacksmith shop to the men working on the Union Pacific Railroad as it came through Echo Canyon and Morgan. He and his brother went into the hills, cutting grass with a scythe, carrying it in canvas, and storing it to feed to the cattle in the winter. He was a trustee for the school district in Porterville when he was a very young man. During this time, Emily Jane Cotterell came from Farmington, Davis County, Utah, where she was born on November 16,1860, to William Cotterell and Emily Saunders Cotterell. She came to teach school. William met her at the train and found a place for her to board. They were married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City on January 30,1879. He was the first Superintendent of the Young Men's Improvement Association of the Morgan Stake. Junius F. Wells of Salt Lake City came to organize the M.I.A. As he watched the people come into the meeting house, he said, "There's the man," when he saw William. He was sustained on August 12, 1878, and held the office for twenty-one years. The mode of travel was mostly by horseback, which was slow and very cold. Many times it was in the early hours of the morning before he arrived home. Sometimes he would remain overnight with friends in some of the faraway wards. Later they went in a bob-sleigh taking hot rocks to keep from freezing. While he was away, his wife did the chores, milking cows and caring for the family. People found him to be a very interesting speaker. He had a wonderful memory and studied all the church books he could get. Many times authorities of the Church were taken into his home and entertained during their visits to the Morgan Stake M.I.A. In December 1881, he left Utah to fill a mission for the L.D.S. Church in Pennsylvania. They worked for their board by farming, digging coal, hauling and chopping wood, or building bams and houses. He was very successful in helping convert and baptize many people. They had very little money. He had to walk ten miles to the post office and was disappointed many times because he received no mail. He got the Deseret News a few times. One of these contained an account of the death of his father before he received word from his family. It was a terrible shock to him. His father was only forty-eight years old at the time. 23