Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together In 18681 was appointed pound keeper in Morgan County, which I held for twelve years. That same year I was elected a city councilman, which position I held for four years. I was also appointed road supervisor for Morgan District. I held that position for ten years. September 15, 1869, Eliza Adelgunda, our second baby was born. We called her Eliza after her aunt, and Adelgunda after her grandmother. In 18701 was appointed first councilor to Charles Turner to preside over the North Morgan Branch. I held this position until 1877. After the death of my brother John, who was called with his wife, Sarah Coulam, to help settle St. George, I built a nice log house for his widow. I had the logs sawed on both sides and put on a shingle roof. March 2, 1871, Clara our third child was bom. July 22,1874, George Angus our first boy was bom. We named him George after myself, and Angus after Angus Cannon who was a missionary in Pennsylvania. In 18681 helped to buy the first organ for North Morgan Ward. I learned to read music and was able to pick out a few cords. Later, I gave Octave Ursenback his first lesson in reading notes, and he later became a very good choir leader and band master. In 18741 built me a two story brick house 19x40. It was the first brick house in North Morgan. The brick was made by Bishop Charles Turner. I bargained with him to haul mahogany wood from Mahogany Hollow to pay for the brick. The brick was laid by Conrad Smith and Peter Rock. The carpenter work was done by myself. March 3rd, 1877, Nettie, our fifth baby was born. January 11th, 1878, Christina Sophia was bom. She only lived three weeks. July 1st, 1877, I was set apart as second councilor to Bishop Wyman M. Parker of the North Morgan Ward by Franklin D. Richards. March 6, I was appointed judge of election for the North Morgan precinct. May 8,1880, John Martin, our seventh baby, was born. We called him John after my brother and Martin after my father. That year I took charge of the threshing machine, which I ran for seven years. Charles Bull, was the best violinist in Morgan at that time, and I would play the organ. I had purchased a small four octave organ. We would go all over Morgan playing for dances. I helped organize the first home dramatic company in Morgan. We took one of our plays to Croydon on Christmas night. My daughter Mary Ellen and myself were booked to sing a song. Joseph Story said he would stand behind the curtain to assist me in singing bass. The next day 1 met Mandy Rock, and she said to me, "Why, George, I've never heard you sing bass as nice as you did last night at Croydon." May 15, 1881,1 was set apart as second councilor to Bishop William B. Parkinson on the North Morgan Ward. In May 1882,1 was met with a great sorrow; my wife took the black measles during an epidemic. She was pregnant and not well enough to survive the disease. She died May 28th, 1882, leaving me alone with six young children, the youngest two years old. The same year I was road supervisor and helped build a road to Round Valley which was on the side hill most of the way. I also farmed my father-in-law's farm at Richville and raised 600 bushels of grain. February 22,1883,1 married Sarah Jane Taggart, daughter of George Washington Taggart and Clarrissa Marina Rogers Taggart, in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. Brother Daniel H. Wells performed the ceremony. February 17, 1884,1 was set apart as first councilor to Bishop O. B. Anderson of the North Morgan Ward, which position I held for twenty years. On March 24, 1884, our first baby was bom. We named her Ida May. In April of that same year, I took the agency of selling wagons, buggies and harnesses for the Studebaker Bros. Company. I also built me a bam 30x40 feet, with a concrete basement. February 21,1886, our second baby was born. We named her after my wife's sister, Julia Taggart. The same year I took the agency to sell wagons and farm machinery for the Consolidated Wagon Machine Company and worked for them until 1903. In 1887 my brother Daniel and I built a butcher shop and also shipped grain and potatoes. May 1, 1888, Horace, our third child, was born. In 1890 Daniel and I built a three story brick hotel. April 15, 1891, Vila, our fourth child, was born. I was still in the shipping business and shipped fifty-one carloads of potatoes that fall. December 14,1896, Clifton, our sixth child, was bom. In 1902 Anthony and Daniel and myself layed a pipeline from the north Morgan Spring to our homes. July 1904 I was appointed postmaster for Morgan County. The following year Rural Free Delivery was established with Reinard Olson as the delivery man. The first winter he boarded at our home. The next winter he pitched a tent in the back room of the post office and batched it. The roads were in such bad condition in the winter that it took him two days to make the trip around the county. My girls helped a great deal at the post office and the boys did the farm work. In May 1910 I sent my son Horace on a mission to Australia. The summer of 1913 I built on another room and divided the house so Horace and his wife could live in it.