During World War of 1918, my son, Leland, contracted pneumonia at Camp Lewis. He was thought dead and placed in the dead house. Bert Dickson immediately went to see him and noticed he moved. He administered to him and he lived until August 1928. My wife, Sarah Jane Taggart, died from sugar diabetes and a stroke September 26, 1933. She was seventy-three years old. Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together George Heiner peacefully passed away May 16th, 1937, after being bedfast one week. His mind was clear and alert up to the last. The winter before his death he retyped his whole history. He lived a life of profound usefulness. At the age of ninety, he helped care for the garden, fed chickens and pigs and got kindling for the fire. His faith in the Gospel never wavered. ©19- William Hemming and Emma Sanford Hemming William Hemming was born 8 June 1827, in Hooknorton, Oxfordshire, England to John Hemming and Sarah Embra Hemming. When only a boy, he went as an apprentice for a carriage painter. Later he moved to Stratford-on- Avon, Warwickshire, England. Here he became acquainted with a young lady by the name of Emma Sanford and they were married August 31,1851. Emma Sanford was the daughter of James Sanford and Elizabeth Powell Sanford and was born September 26, 1830 in Warwickshire, England. Her mother died when she was three and one half years old, and later her father married again. They didn't treat her very well, so she went to live with her grandmother. It was in Stratford-on-Avon that William Hemming heard the Latter-day Saint missionaries preach the gospel and became interested in their church, which he joined on November 16, 1852. Like many others, he was anxious to come to America, so November 27,1855 he and his wife and two daughters left Liverpool with a group of Saints for America, sailing on the ship Emerald Isle. They landed in New York two months later on January 2, 1856. They stayed there until May 6,1860. After arriving in New York, he took the vocation of painter and glazier. The two daughters who accompanied their parents from England were Fanny, bom June 9,1852, and Harriett, born June 5, 1854 - both born at Burford, Stratford-on-Avon, Oxfordshire, England. Harriet died February 24, 1856 at Williamsburg, New York. Her mother never knew where she was buried. William Hemming Jr. was born at Williamsburg, New York, April 16,1856, and died October 17,1857 at Williamsburg, New York. Emma Elizabeth was William Hemming bom June 10, 1859 at 26 North Third Street, Williamsburg, New York. It wasshe and Fanny who traveled across the plains with their parents. On May 6, 1860, they left New York by rail for St. Joseph, Missouri, and from there to Florence, Nebraska, by boat. There they joined the Daniel Robison Handcart Company for the long walk across the plains. The following is taken from the account given by William Hemming of the trip: The company was prepared to commence their journey June 6, 1860, but a thunderstorm came up and stopped them. They left the next day, with forty- three handcarts and four wagons loaded with provisions. After traveling for one hundred miles, the Pawnee River was reached where the Pawnee Indians lived. The Indians ferried them across the river and, when a short distance away, they camped. Brother Joseph Young came with fifty wagons and teams. While getting ready for the evening meal, there came a thousand Indians of another tribe on horseback to fight the Pawnee Indians.