Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together Samuel John Carter - Native Pioneer Samuel John Carter If one statement could sum up a man's life, "He loved his family and loved to work," would surely say what the life of Samuel John Carter was all about. Samuel John, also known as Uncle Jack, was born November 26, 1862, at Porterville, Utah. He was the son of Samuel Carter and Ellen Masser Carter. He was a handsome man. He died January 16,1937. He married Sarah Jane Adams on January 13, 1885, at Porterville, Utah. She was born September 5,1867, at Porterville, the daughter of Thomas Adams and Jane Durrant Adams. Eleven children were born to them over a twenty-three year period. She died May 4,1956. Their first home was a two-room log cabin located at Woods Creek and measuring twenty-eight feet long and ten feet wide. It had two windows in the main room, with an outside entrance into each room. Under the chimney of the large, coal cooking stove was a connecting doorway for the two rooms, which you passed through by walking behind the stove. Emily Jane was born there, followed by Thomas Samuel, Eliza and Horace. A large two-room log home measuring eighteen feet by forty-one feet was built in 1892, with a high- pitched roof and eight foot ceilings. In the following years, more rooms were added and the log area was covered to match. The house now measured sixty by thirty-four feet, complete with a large pantry and five chimneys. The large lovely home must have seemed like a palace after the confinement of the tiny cabin. There was also a path out back to the outhouse. Beatrice, Amanda, Myrtle, Agnes, Orial, Faye and Nora were born here. Three generations of Carters and twenty-one children have been blest to live and grow in this well-built home. The home has a base of large red rocks and timbers which were hauled from the head of Lake Canyon by team and wagon. The wide woodwork was hand planed and the marks are still visible. The home stays cool in the summer and warm in the winter because of the inner log walls. The parlor was once heated with a pot belly stove and still has a wood burning stove. The dry farms were cleared by hand with grubbing hoes, of the sage growing in abundance. The land was rocky and the older children helped haul the rocks off the land to prepare it for farming. The rocks which were too heavy to lift were rolled onto a rock boat, which consisted of logs with boards across them, with the logs acting as runners and then pulled away by a team of horses. John sheared sheep in the spring to help bring in extra income for his family. While he was away, Sarah Jane would care for the cows. She would often bring their herd up Lake Canyon to feed during the day and return for them at night. One morning while she was taking the cows to pasture, they shied away from a clump of bushes and when she approached, there were two Indians lying there. On another occasion, a buck Indian leading a horse with his squaw riding, passed the home on their way up the holler. Late that afternoon they returned with a papoose in the mother's arms. About twenty years ago, an Indian spear head was found under a small loose rock of the house foundation, near the original front door. The Indians would stop once or twice a year at the settlers' homes to trade with them. John loved to whistle and would almost always be heard whistling "Red Wing" as he headed home in the evening. On many occasions he would hire young men to help him with work and, after giving them their day's wages, he would almost always add an extra nickel telling them that it was for doing such a good job. Ross Carter, Marvin Phillips, Wallace Carter and Roy Mortenson really liked working for "Uncle Jack." Wallace often said that he loved to work for Uncle Jack because he always fed you good and right at lunch time. Sarah Jane was a great cook. When the job Sarah Jane Adams Carter