customary - and in this particular case, necessary - that the girls take care of the cows, and these two sisters milked, winter and summer, as many as fourteen cows. They were also obliged to divide their schooling, one them attending one week while the other stayed at home to assist with the work, alternating in this way during the entire school Richard Fry and Ann Rawle Fry season. At this time, the church was advocating and practicing plural marriages. Susan Lerwill came to Utah for the sake of the gospel, as did many others. She became the plural wife of Richard Fry, by and with the consent of Ann Fry, mother of the first family. If ever the law of plural marriage was observed properly, Richard Fry and his wives lived it. By this union, three sons and two daughters were born. Ann was twenty years older that Susan. They became very fond of each other and were more like sisters, each concerned with the other's welfare. With the passage of the Edmund-Tucker bill by Congress, vigorous prosecution of those practicing plural marriage in the church was instituted. On November 9,1896, Richard Fry was arrested on a charge of living with more than one wife. He was taken to Ogden, and when arraigned bedore the commissioner, pleaded guilty. He was placed under $1,500 bond and ordered to appear for trial. He was sentenced to six months in the Utah Penitentiary and fined the sum of $380. John Croft, an old friend of the family, loaned Richard enough money to pay the fine. Every cent was returned to him in due time. Tears of sorrow were replaced with tears of joy upon his return. Long tables were spread and in the center of the largest table stood a roasted pig with an apple in his mouth. All members of the two families bustled about in preparation of his coming and to make welcome the arrival of neighbors who had been invited. All ears were listening for the tramp of horses' feet. But there were lines in Richard's face. His closely cropped hair and beard made them all Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together the more noticeable. The foul air of the prison which was crowded almost to the point of suffocation at times had made inroads upon his health. He was never just the same in health afterward. His untimely death, the family thought was more or less due to the unsanitary conditions of the prison. Mother learned the millinery trade, becoming adept in the making of hats, braiding and preparing the straw, blocking and making shapes and trimming the hats. In later years she operated a millinery shop for several years on the north side of the river. With the help of an English bootmaker by the name James Tucker, she also learned to make boots and shoes. On October 12, 1882, she married William Joseph Hales Eddington in the Endowment House in Salt Lake and lived in this city for three years before moving back to Morgan where they lived until 1911, before moving back to Salt Lake. Grandmother Fry lived with mother in Salt Lake for several years, and when she left, it was to go back to her home in Morgan to die. In the early days of the pioneers, the chief amusement was drama, and Morgan was noted for its fine performances. It was necessary for them to make all their own costumes and buy other equipment such as swords, pistols, muskets, wigs, etc. Mother often assumed the role of leading lady and father generally the villain alternating the role with Alonzo Francis. Stories from the History of Richard Fry, early pioneer of Morgan County, his son, Richard Rawle Fry, and his son, Richard Toomer Fry. This incident happened one day in South Morgan. Richard Toomer Fry and his sister, Ada Maude Fry Brimley, were attending a birthday party for a friend, Morgan White. They were four and five ! years old. It was held at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Jane Bull, located in the two story house by . Steph's Drive Inn. There were a number of children playing together, when a band of Indians came by. Indians were often roaming around in those days. They would camp, hunt, and fish. The squaws would wander about town begging for bread and home cured meat. All of the children gathered around them as they were naturally interested in watching them. Sister Bull was a widow lady and didn't have anything to offer them. One very old Indian man, gathered Little Ada up in his arms and held her under a blanket that he had over his shoulder, and sped off with her.