Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together would be hauled to the farm. They would also cut small willows to feed the animals. They had very hard times and it was difficult to feet and clothe the family. For their breakfast, they would have flour mush, and for supper they would have thickened milk and sometimes a piece of bread with bacon grease on it. This is all the food the pioneers had at that time. As the years went on, they learned how to raise peas. The family would shell them, then they would boil them and put them out in the sun to dry. They also raised beans which the children helped to snap. Then with a needle they would thread them on a string and put them out in the sun to dry. They didn't know how to bottle fruit so they also dried peaches and apricots. For nuts, they gathered acorns and roasted them. For candy, they would gather choke- cherries and dry them. Samuel was very fair with his families. He would eat with one family one week, then he would go to eat with the other family a week. When he would go to Morgan, he would buy the same things and in the same amount for both families. When there were social gatherings in the ward, he would always take both families. They just had one spring seat in the wagon, so he would put small pieces of board across the wagon box for them to sit on. In the winter time, he would put bows and a cover on the wagon box. When the children were born, a midwife would take care of them. They never had a doctor. He had great faith in the elders. When they had sickness in their homes, he would send some of the boys for the elders. The elders would leave whatever they were doing and go to the sick. Through their faith and prayers, their health would be restored to them. On Tuesday, April 19,1887, Bishop Samuel Carter of Porterville, Utah was arrested on a charge of unlawful cohabitation. He was taken to the Ogden Jail and placed under a $1,500 bond. On Tuesday, June 21, 1887, in the First District Court at Ogden, Utah, Samuel Carter refused to give up support of Sarah Davis and their children. As a result he was found guilty to unlawful cohabitation and sentenced to four months imprisonment and a $100 fine. He was taken to the Utah State Penitentiary to serve his time. He made his forced idleness worthwhile by studying good books. He was not released from his calling as a Bishop during his imprisonment. On Friday, September 30, 1887, he was released from the State Penitentiary with presumably a month off for good behavior. On his return home, his children hardly knew him, as he was forced to shave off his beard. In the year 1893, Samuel and Ellen sent their son, Hyrum, on a mission to South Carolina. While preaching the gospel there, they stayed with a very good family. One evening a mob of twenty-five men came to the house and took Hyrum and his companion to the woods. They took all their clothing off down to their underwear and whipped them severely. They gave each of them twenty-one lashes with a tug from a harness. Then took them to the railroad station and told them to leave town and never come back or they would kill them. Some of the elders were there at the station. They said Hyrum and his companion walked toward them, with the blood coming to the top of their shoes. They got on the train and left that town for another part of South Carolina, where they stayed until they recovered. Hyrum got a terrible itch on his body. He put carbolic acid in some cold water and was going to bathe his body in it. The acid and water didn't mix and when he put it on his body, it was so strong that it burned his flesh terribly. It burned a hole about the size of a dinner plate in his stomach. The elders got a bottle of olive oil and consecrated it, then administered to Hyrum. He suffered terribly for a long time, but regained his health and preached the Gospel once more. Then he got Malaria fever, and with his condition still weak from the sickness he had before, was unable to overcome it and passed away. His body was shipped to Morgan and laid to rest in the Porterville cemetery. This was a great tragedy to his family and the community where he lived. His body was accompanied home by his mission president, J. Golden Kimball. Samuel worked very hard to support his two wives and twenty-four children. He was very faithful and humble. He never got angry if things went wrong. Samuel and Ellen raised eight of the eleven children to manhood and womanhood. They buried three of the girls when they were infants. What a wonderful thing it was to live and raise such a large family, and having both wives and children sealed to him for time and all eternity. He passed away June 21,1898, at the age of sixty- two. His work here upon this earth had been completed. After the death of her husband, Ellen lived in her own home for six years. She died November 4,1903, at the age of sixty-nine. Sarah, the second wife, lived for many years after. ©19 •