Morgan Pioneer History Hinds Us Togetliei Anna Richardson Chapin Anna Richardson, daughter of Elizabeth Robson Richardson, was born August 5, 1850, in Cramling, Northumberland County, England, where she was baptized into the L.D.S. Church in April 1861. On the 22nd of the same month, she left Liverpool together with her parents and their family on the ship Underwriter. Mr. Roberts was the captain, and Homer Duncan was the President of the Company. They were six weeks on the ocean. Arriving at New York City, they continued their journey to Florence, Nebraska, where they remained for one month, where they started for Utah in Milo Andrew's Company. When they were about halfway to Utah, they joined Homer Duncan's company, and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, on September 13,1861, and then in February of 1862, came to Morgan, Utah. Her family as many others had a hard time. They lived on potatoes for six weeks, never once tasting bread. They lived on the west side of the valley, the place known as Monday Town, a small hollow just above their homes. Later they moved over to the central part of the valley, later known as Morgan City, in the south side. She married Uriah Calvin Chapin on October 9, 1866, with Heber C. Kimball officiating in the Endowment House. She was the mother of five daughters and one son. She was a devoted mother, and also very attentive to the sick. She cared for more than fifty babies until their mothers could care for them themselves. She often made this expression, "I have no desire to be rich, but I would like to have the means that whenever I saw any one in need, I could put my hand in my pocket and help them." She was always on hand and anxious to help in very way possible. She was much loved and respected by neighbors and friends. She was a member of the Relief Society from its first organization in Morgan and served as teacher and also as treasurer for many years. She was kind to friends and a faithful Latter Day Saint. Anna Richardson Chapin died on December 17, 1911. ©19- Elijah Cheney Elijah Cheney was born in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, September 14,1785, and when he was three years old moved to New York (Otsego County) after the death of his father (Zacheus) in 1793. Elijah's mother moved to a place near Lake Champlain, and Elijah went to live with her brother, Robert Granger. After living at this place three years, she moved to Marcellus, Onondaga County, which is about ten miles southwest from Syracuse. About 1796, she married a Mr. Chappie and had three children, Martin, Lucy, and Paty. She died in about 1800 and was buried about four miles west of the present town of Marcellus. In the year of 1795, his uncle moved west to a placed called the military tract to the town of Marcellus, Onondaga County, when Elijah was ten years of age. When he was fifteen he was bound out to a man by the name of Thomas A. Miller and lived with him three years. When he was seventeen years old (1802), Miller died and Elijah went to live with another uncle, his mother's youngest brother, Isaac Granger. In 1804, with his uncle, he moved to the town of Pike, Genesee County, and lived there until twenty- one years of age (1806). This was the year of the big eclipse of January. He then left his uncle and went to Botivig, Genesee County, which was afterward divided into two towns, Bethany being one of them where he lived. In 1807 his brother Calvin and himself took a job clearing twenty acres of land for Peter Putinan then living in the same town, and in 1808, Elijah bought a piece of land of 120 acres which was then a wilderness. In the fall he commenced to clear up the land and while doing so, he hired his board to one Robert Richmond and paid for board and lodging for three years. On March 14, 1811, he was married to Achsa Thompson and moved on their new farm and on May 19,1812, their first child, David, was born. He enlisted in the Army on June 20,1812, for six months, and was stationed at Black Rock on the Niagra River at the head of the falls and was discharged on November 5. In 1813 he volunteered again