Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together work. The three girls were worried about Santa not being able to get down their chimney, so they decided to sweep a path for him from the outside gate to the front door. Mary Ellen, Caroline and Pet were excited as they finished and went inside their home. "In the house was a very large rocking chair, and all three girls cuddled up in it. They were beginning to get tired, when they heard their family cow, Boss, mooing and mooing. "Poor old Boss," Pet said, "She must be hungry." "They were quiet for a minute, then Sarah said, "If s Christmas and Boss doesn't have one Christmas present, not even something to eat." Caroline came up with a wonderful idea. "Our mattress is filled with nice dried grass. Lef s feed it to Boss." "So Mary Ellen, Caroline and Pet pulled the covers off their bed, struggled to get a good hold on the mattress, and pulled it into the front room. They put on their coats and gloves, then dragged the mattress through the doorway and over to the barnyard. They ripped open the mattress and dumped the grass out. Old Boss stopped mooing and got busy eating her Christmas Eve supper. The very tired girls returned to the house. They curled up in the big rocking chair and were soon fast asleep. "When their mother got home, she awakened the girls and told them to go to bed. Mary Ellen, Caroline and Pet told her that they couldn't because they had fed their bed to the cow. So that night their mother let them sleep in the big rocking chair. "Sometime that night, Santa came and filled their stockings with yummy things to eat. And the next morning a good neighbor came with a load of hay and straw. So old Boss got a second Christmas present, and Mary Ellen, Caroline and Pet got a new straw bed." When Caroline was about eleven years old, she began earning money of her own tending babies for fifty cents a week. She had the usual childhood diseases: whooping cough, scarlet fever and later diphtheria. At that time there were not any vaccines and these diseases spread rapidly around the community. Because of conditions at that time, Caroline's education was limited. The first school she attended was held in two log rooms built where the Spring Chicken Inn now stands. In each room was a bucket full of water with one dipper for all to drink from. They had an outdoor toilet that was very cold in the winter. Lessons were taught in the morning and in the afternoon sewing was taught to the girls. She completed the fourth grade. When Caroline was a teenager, she worked several years in Ogden for Alec Ross. She was only able to come home occasionally. She then worked about eight years doing house work for Joe Williams and his wife. Mr. Williams was a successful merchant in Morgan. Caroline went to Green River, Wyoming with her sister Mary Ellen. She worked there several years, then returned to Morgan and went to work for Eliza Durrant Ursenbach Compton, George Compton's first wife. Eliza was very ill for several years and died January 8, 1890, when she was forty-five years old. She left a daughter, Sarah Jane Whitehead, and a son, Octave Ursenbach. GEORGE AND CAROLINE AGER COMPTON'S MARRIED LIFE George and Caroline's courtship began a few months after the death of his first wife, Eliza. They continued their courtship for about a year. They were married December 23, 1890, by Bishop Charles Turner. She was twenty-five years old, and he was forty-four. They were later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple with their five children. They began their married life in a three room house near the home she had grown up in. Caroline had an older daughter, Sylvia, who was bom in Green River, Wyoming. Eight children were bom to Caroline and George: George Albert, Nellie May, John Ager, James Warwick, Carrie Rozella, Don Albert (who died at birth), Alta Afton, and Sarah Leone. George and Caroline lived happily, seldom, if ever, quarreling or bickering. They were a married couple who got along well. They worked together, planning and buying property and paying their debts. Within a few years, all of the debts on the farm were paid. While running the fifty acre farm, George had to hire help until his children were old enough to work with him. Rose liked to ride the derrick horse to pull the hay up in the barn. George always believed in having plenty of farming tools and implements. At one time he had thirteen pitchforks. Taxes on fifty acres of land in 1890 were $2.50. On hot days when George had been laboring on the farm, he would drop in the house for a cold drink. Caroline would have lemonade, cold tea or homemade root beer ready for him. If it was a cold day, he would sit by the warm kitchen stove and sip a cup of hot tea, or a bowl of composition tea. George greatly appreciated her thoughtfulness. Caroline was a hard worker in her home and in her garden. She always had a good vegetable garden