Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together of Salt Lake City at $5.00 a bucket. This took many hours of work during the hot summer. They also boarded many piano, organ, and other salesmen, as in those days it was quite a busy time. This was one way of extra income for the family. Ether Butters furnished their transportation around Morgan County with horse and buggy or bob-sleigh. One salesman, Mr. Ridges, was a grandson of the man who built the first Salt Lake Tabernacle organ. They went through the hardship of the grasshopper time remembering when the trees were stripped of their leaves. The grasshoppers ate the leaves of every growing thing they could get to. The railroad tracks were so thick with the hoppers that the wheels just wouldn't turn, slipping and slipping, like the tracks had been greased, until the train crew spread sand over the tracks before they were able to go on. During most of the cold winters, Isabella and Ether used to only heat two rooms in their home. Everyone slept in a cold bedroom, and many, many times they would wake up in the morning with frost on the blankets from their breath. Isabella and Ether rode in a one-horse buggy with a top on it in the summer time. They remembered one time coming home from shopping over town one day, driving the horse and buggy up to the crabapple tree and helped their mother in the house with the groceries. They didn't tie the horse up, but just let her stand, and after they left her, she went on under the tree and tore the top of the buggy off. This was one time when Ether was upset, to say the least. They would take some of their family (all could not leave at the same time because of the chores to do) and go to Kamas to visit with Uncle Jim Butters and Aunt Minnie Fitzgerald. They would leave at four o'clock in the morning and get there just before dark. Isabella would take heated bricks and rocks wrapped in blankets to keep their feet warm under the covers in the bob-sleigh. Their fiftieth wedding anniversary was held at the family home on November 29, 1933, in South Morgan, Utah, with their family - including seven sons and daughters, husbands and wives and sixteen grandchildren. Also attending was a brother Robert H. Welch and his wife, Ardella, of Salt Lake City, Utah. A lovely turkey dinner with all the trimmings and a beautiful wedding cake was served to all. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ether Butters were honored Friday evening, December 6, 1940, with a surprise party in honor of their fifty-seventh wedding anniversary at the home of their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Butters. The long table was spread in the dining room with a centerpiece which was their original wedding cake, fifty-seven years ago. Fall flowers were used through the rooms for decorations. Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Butters, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Brough, Mr. and Mrs. Parley Butters, Mr. and Mrs. Milford Mecham, Mr. and Mrs. Glen W. Butters, all of Morgan; Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Butters of Ogden; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Butters of Preston, Idaho; and the guests of honor. Mr. and Mrs. Butters were presented with a beautiful wedding cake especially prepared by loving hands, upon which was an arch from which hung in gold letters "57." This was presented to them by Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Butters. At this writing (August 1973), Joseph Ether and Isabella have 144 descendants - twenty-three grandchildren, seventy-one great grandchildren, and fifty great, great grandchildren. Isabella was a dear sweet person; she loved the Gospel and was a good mother and wife. She left a heritage to be proud of. Joseph Ether Butters died at his home in South Morgan, Utah, on April 10, 1945; Isabella followed her husband in death in three years. She passed away at her home on February 17,1948. They were both buried in the South Morgan City Cemetery, Morgan, Utah. ,J» «^ m Joseph Ether Butters and Isabetle Welch Butters. Taken it at the Stake Did Tolks Parly in Morgan, Utah. (Mats)