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Show the Porterville Cemetery. After her death, Lorenzo lived with members of his family until August 12, 1937, when he married Hattie Adeline Carter, widow of his brother, Joseph Durrant. They lived in Salt Lake City until Hattie passed away November 19, 1943, then Lorenzo lived with different ones of his children until his death on June 29,1951, at the age of ninety- four. He was buried beside his beloved Sarah Jane in the Porterville Cemetery. His longevity was due mainly to his desire and zest for living. He loved life and people. It was not uncommon for him at the age Morgan Pioneer I tistory Binds Us 'Together of ninety-two to walk seven or eight miles both ways to visit someone. Lorenzo filled two missions in Great Britain, the first in 1887. This left his wife Sarah Jane, alone with three babies and a farm for which to care for two years. As he was returning home, he was in a train wreck in Lynchburg, Virginia, and his leg was broken. His second mission was in 1908. This time the older children were able to work and helped a great deal, but they all felt many hardships during this time. ©19 William Eddington William Eddington, son of James Eddington and Eliza Seaton Eddington, was born at Portsea, County of Hampshire, England, on November 27, ^0^^r I cated in the Green- r m 4 -1 "^ ^^1 ■ w'cn School of ^B*-^^^^^^^^H^^J Navigation, and _^^H I went to sea for •» »i I nearly two years, I _sii m | after which he William Eddington took up the voca tion of school teaching, having about five hundred boys in his school. In 1847 he married Jane Hayles, a daughter of Charles Hayles and Mary Wheeler Hayles. She was born at Portsmouth, Hampshire County, England, September 4, 1818. One son was born to this union while they were in business in Wales, but the child lived only a few hours. Mr. and Mrs. Eddington were baptized into the L.D.S. Church in 1849, and he acted as president of the branch where they were located. While residing at Portsmouth, the Mormon missionaries and Saints held a wonderful celebration, and Mrs. Eddington made the silk banners and sashes used for the occasion. These were later used in the Fourth of July celebration in Salt Lake City, and also at one time at Morgan when Mr. Eddington was mayor. In 1853 they emigrated to Utah together with Mrs. Eddington's cousin, Miss Louise Barton, whom Mr. Eddington married that fall after arriving in Salt Lake City. Eight children were bom to them. While crossing the ocean, he befriended a young man who was sorely in need of financial help, by giving him $20.00 to help him out, and he forgot about the incident. After a great many years, this same man remembered the kindness, and learning of Mr. Eddington's reversed circumstances, brought to his door several hundred pounds of flour and asked him to accept it in payment of the help given him so many years before. About 1865 he married Sarah Fry. One child was born to them; the young mother giving her life to the cause of motherhood. In 1865 he married Sarah's half sister, Mary Littlefield, who had crossed the plains with her mother and family of small children the year previous. Ten children were born to them. Mr. Eddington's first vocation after arriving in Salt Lake City was school teaching in a little one room log house. He taught there for some years, and later taught with Samuel Comaby and Lorenzo Snow in the first public high school, known as the Snow High School. President Young bought the first school globes and maps, also T.ddingtoi. '/:>, |