Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together told them to move their town to what is now Morgan City where the Morgan City and County Building now stands. This was the part of town that wasn't under water. President Young helped them layout the town in blocks. Isabella Eliza Welch was born October 29,1865, in Morgan, Utah, and was baptized by Bishop Charles Turner on August 9,1874. She was the only daughter in the Welch family of boys. They all thought she was a great blessing, and because of this, the boys had great respect and love for her. The first little school house was on the courthouse block. Isabella went to school in the first school house; they held dances in this same school, and she attended dances there. During the later part of her life, there were only two brothers living. They were Charles F. and Robert H. of Salt Lake City, Utah. The two would come to Morgan at least once a month to have a visit with their sister, and the custom was for her to have a rice pudding to eat. The recipe for the pudding ended with her death. At one time she and brother, Charlie, talked about their home life and she told him she had the clothes their mother used to have the children blessed in. Some time after this, Charlie came up again and asked Belle, as she was fondly called by everyone, for these clothes. She refused to part with them. They talked it over and agreed to cut the long dress (all children were blessed in long dresses) in half so each could have part. Nice it would be now to have this dress, for it would be over 100 years old. After she was married, they lived in their two- room house on Field Street, and later added extra rooms to their home. She had a flowering tree, an oleander, growing in a barrel set on casters and kept it in the house in winter and outside in the summer. Whenever anyone passed her house, she waited and greeted them and was always hospitable to everyone. Sometimes she would go out to the street when she saw a wagon coming and stop whoever was in it, so she could visit for a few minutes. This was mostly the way they got the news from around town. Isabella (Belle) always kept a good, clean house, Her home and family were foremost in her mind. Often she would cook Yorkshire pudding on washdays because this pudding needed an extra hot oven, and washdays took a hot stove for the boilers to heat the wash water. She was a very friendly person and The home of Ether and Belle Butters. well known for her hospitality; very few, if any, who went to her home were not invited to have dinner or lunch. She would always have some good food. More often she would have a rice pudding to serve because this was one of her favorite dishes. She was a good homemaker and loving mother. She was affectionately known through all of Morgan Stake as "Aunt Belle Butters." Belle Butters was always helpful to anyone in need, and never turned away from her door that was hungry. She was thoughtful of the sick and would go in the home where the sick were and help with the nursing. She always had lots of remedies for sickness; one was marshmallow root tea for kidney ailment; another was potato poultice for infection. One of Belle's most pleasant afternoons would be spent visiting with Sister Hilma Rose and her husband, John Rose, of Richville, Morgan County. Another human side of Ether and Isabella was they enjoyed many evenings playing Chinese checkers with their lifelong neighbors, Richard H. and Nettie Rich, who lived just across the street. They also spent lots of hours with close friends A.A. Barlow and family in North Morgan. Isabella was kind to children and when they came to her home they could always find cookies, homemade bread and jelly, and other goodies in her kitchen for them. Then there was the orchard they were allowed to play in and pick apples. In the back yard was a root cellar where children spent many hours playing on the dirt cellar and sliding down the wooden cellar door. In the early years of their married life, she and her husband picked as many as 100 pounds of green string beans from their garden, slicing and salting them in a large wooden candy bucket and selling them to owners of the Culmer Paint and Oil Company 30