Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us 'Together Joseph Ether Butters and Isabella Eliza Welch Butters Joseph Ether Butters, son of William Butters and Mary Johnson Butters, was born in Dearham, Norfolk, England, June 23,1862. He came to America on the ship Manhattan with other members of his family on September 22,1869 - he was eight years old. He remembered many things which took place while crossing the ocean, and often spoke of the white caps and huge waves on the ocean. He was baptized July 21,1871. Ether Butters, as he was called, married Isabella Eliza (Lizzie) Welch, daughter of Thomas Robert Green Welch and Harriet Nash Welch, in the Salt Lake City Endowment House, November 29,1883. To this union were bom ten children, all bom in Morgan, Utah. Their first child, a son, Charles Arthur, was bom December 31,1884. He lived to be only three years of age and died September 20,1887. The second child, a beautiful daughter named Harriet Plessie, was born on November 20,1886, and lived to be only one year old; she died November 3,1887, just six weeks after her brother, Charles. Three and one-half years later, they lost their third child, a son, Joseph William, who was born September 27,1888 and died May 29,1891, being only three and one half years old. What a sorrow this was to a young couple to have lost their first three children. Their other seven children all lived to manhood and womanhood and raised a family. Their children were: Henry James Butters, born October 21, 1890 - died October 27, 1965; Afton Louise Butters, born September 5, 1892 - died July 11, 1969; Parley Nash Butters, born September 21,1894; Leo Welch Butters, born April 25,1897-died October 16,1971; Irvin Robert Butters, bom June 30,1899 - died March 4, 1973; Elvera Welch Butters, born November 2, 1902; and Glen Woodruff Butters, bom April 20,1909. Mr. Butters worked as a farmer through his life, having the reputation of plowing the straightest furrows without using lines to guide his horses. One day Ether and a farm helper were working in the hay field, they finally had the hay all piled ready to haul when he said, "we had better go to dinner or we will have a cold dinner and a hot cook." Just at this time a wind twister came up and blew hay all over the field again. Ether worked in the old quarry up the canyon and "would blast the rock out" for the road and railroad to be built. He was definitely the best quarry man this town ever had. Ether and his son, Henry, hauled coal from Coalville. One trip was made each day; they would go up one day and back the next day with a load of coal. They made eight trips at $13.00 a load; the snow was deep for the bob-sleigh and the weather mighty cold in the winter time. Ether was a guard on the railroad during the First World War in 1917, and he rode a three-wheel hand cart. In the early days, the Indians used to come to Morgan and camp on Francis' slough where Dutch Porter's home now stands (now being 1973), and one of the boys, when he was a young man, used to go to this Indian Camp and wrestle the Indians. He was never known to be pinned in any wrestling contest. At one time he was a co-owner of the Old Morgan Opera House, originally known as "Simmons Hall," located across the street from his home where the Richard H. Rich home now stands. Ether and Isabella made home-made ice cream which they sold during intermission at dances in the Old Opera House. He was always a great step- dancer until past eighty years of age, always calling for faster music. He was a member of the Morgan band, and played the bass drum. Baseball was the sport he enjoyed most and played on the Morgan team for many years. As a catcher, behind the bat, he used just a little glove with the fingers cut off. He could throw a baseball for 100 yards, or a rock for a city block. He served for many years as Field Superintendent for the Morgan Canning Company, traveling through Morgan County on horseback. When Morgan was first occupied, there was a Welch's comer in Monday Town, and that is where Isabella lived with her mother, father, and family. She was the first of the Welchs bom on Welch's comer; later they moved down to Morgan City when the city was laid out. Brigham Young came to Morgan and