Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together Janet McNiven Hogg McNiven Hogg Janet McNiven Hogg was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, October 14, 1826. Her father died when she was three years of age and her mother died ten years later leaving her an orphan at thirteen. It was necessary for her to support herself, and she entered the employ of a doctor's family. The experience gained there was useful to herself and others later. When she was about twenty-one, she married John McNiven and they had two children, James and Jessie. When her husband died after five years of marriage, she was left a widow with two children early in life. She left them to be cared for by other people while she worked for their support, but finding this very unsatisfactory, she started a laundry on a small scale and was very successful, becoming financially independent. After having the privilege of hearing the Mormon elders, she became convinced their message was true. Disposing of her business, she left Liverpool, with her two children on the ship Underwriter. Milo Andrews, Homer Duncan, and Charles W. Penrose were in charge of the company of Saints which arrived in New York, May 22,1861. She had brought a quantity of clothing, bed linen, and china from her home, but was advised to sell them before crossing the plains. This she did at a great sacrifice, which was quite a trial as she expected to have them to help make her new home. She obtained oxen, a wagon and a cow to cross the plains with, and shared them with another family, thus making it necessary for her to walk a great part of the way. She traveled in the Charles Penrose Company, and arrived in Salt Lake City in the fall of 1861. Suiting herself as best she could to the new conditions, and using her native thrift and genius to make the trip as pleasant and comfortable as possible, she resorted to many unique methods to supply themselves with some comforts, one of which was to fasten a pail of milk on the back of the wagon. The constant motion would churn butter for their meals. Arriving in Salt Lake in the fall of 1861, she was married to Robert Hogg in 1862 and they moved to Morgan County where they lived until the time of their death. From this union two children were bom - a son, Robert, who died in childhood from smallpox, and a daughter, now Mrs. A.O. Durrant, of Morgan City. Mother held many positions of trust. She was active in Relief Society and Primary. There being no doctor in the settlement, she was called to assist in sickness and was very successful in this, attending the birth of two hundred babies, with very few fatalities. She was a woman of great faith and always had the priesthood present in sickness. She passed away at her home in Morgan, August 1,1897, and was buried in the cemetery there. ©19 ■ Robert Hogg, Jr. and Mary Ann Norman Hogg Robert Hogg, Jr. was born to Robert Hogg, Sr. and Isabelle Swan Hogg on August 26,1840, in the Parish of Channelkirk, Berwickshire, Scotland. Other children in the family were Isabelle, Janette, Annie, twins Jemima and Alice, and Adam. Adam died when he was about a year old. When Robert Jr. was about twelve years old, his father joined the Latter Day Saints Church. His mother wanted nothing to do with this new religion, and this caused much family strife. It also caused dissension in the branch of the church in that locality, and the father was finally advised to leave and migrate to America. This left the boy, Robert, to care and provide for the family. He worked at different occupations: carpenter, farmer and overseer of parks and grounds of a large estate. Here, in 1870, he married Mary Ann Norman, daughter of William Norman and Sarah Thomson Norman. Three children were born to them: Sarah, Isabella and Robert. In 1875 his father returned to his home country as a missionary, and hoped to convince his family there to accept the Gospel. This did not work out for the mother and