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Show Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together second child, Brigham, born in 1853, died at the age of nine months old. They had four more girls within the next ten years. Richard and Elizabeth were sealed to each other October 13, 1850, in Elizabeth's home. They both received their endowments on July 23, 1852, in the Endowment House. Richard moved his family to a farm in Big Cottonwood, and it was here he met Caroline Chloe Norton Pickup, who husband had gone to California after she had divorced him. Caroline Chloe Norton was born September 6, 1836, in Shelby, Shelby County, Tennessee, to John Norton and Dorothy Osbom Norton, the third of seven children. Richard and Caroline were sealed January 3, 1858, in the President's Office by Brigham Young. Elizabeth was re- sealed at this time also. On November 16, 1867, both these wives were again resealed to Richard. This was done a great deal at this particular time. Caroline Chloe Norton had been sealed to George Pickup in 1857, but it was cancelled on December 29, 1857, after she had left him. She had three children by George Pickup, but the baby, Rebecca, had died as an infant. While still in Big Caroline Chloe Norton Norwood Cottonwood, Elizabeth had another child, Nancy Areta. Caroline had their first child, Adelia. They all moved to Morgan in 1860 where each wife had another child. They then again moved, this time to Porterville, Morgan County, Utah. Here they home- steaded a fine farm, known as Norwood Hollow. Elizabeth passed away on October 3, 1878, and was buried in the Porterville Cemetery. Richard and his family lived the United Order for two years while in Porterville, then when it broke up, he obtained another farm, which he sold in June 1880 and moved to Orderville, Utah, to live near his four daughters (Elizabeth's). He lived the United Order again for four years, then being called by the Directors, he went to work on a ranch in Arizona, leaving his wife in Orderville. When the Order broke up here, Richard bought a twenty-acre farm which he tended with the help of his son, Richard. After a year, he turned the farm in for 507 head of sheep. Caroline left Orderville about 1886, taking her three youngest children, and went to live with her eldest son, Edward Pickup, in Huntington, Utah. After living there a few years, she moved back to Porterville, and lived near her daughter Sarah Jane Durrant until her death on March 15,1901. She was buried in the Porterville Cemetery. Richard Smith Norwood was always a devout church member, serving in many ways. He lived with his son, Richard, until Richard got married, then he was alone with just a housekeeper until he passed away on January 18,1898, in Orderville, Utah. He was buried in the Orderville Cemetery. ©9 Dorothy Norwood My father, Richard Norwood, came to Utah, one of the first pioneers in 1847, and settled in Big Cotton Wood near Salt Lake, then moved to Morgan in 1860. My sister, Adelia, was bom in Cottonwood in the year 1859.1, myself, was born at Morgan two years later, May 13,1861. There was no town, just a few families below where Morgan is now. I remember my folks telling about it. I have heard them tell the names of their neighbors, and what good neighbors they were. These were Daniel Bull, Charles Turner, Robert Hogg, Mr. Thurston, Richard Fry and Mr. Lamb. When I was one year old, my folks moved to Porterville. My father took up at what they call Norwood Hollow. He at one time owned all of that place. It is now owned by Mrs. Jane Kippen. He also owned several acres in the little settlement of Porterville. We lived there several years, but had no stove to cook on. We had a fireplace, and I remember we had no matches to start our fire, but would bank the coals up with ashes. Sometimes it would go out and then we would go with a shovel to our more fortunate neighbors and borrow fire. I do not know what we would have done if my mother had not made our own cloth. She would take the wool, after it was sheared from the sheep, and would wash it and dry it and then pick every fleece with her hands and sprinkle it with a little butter, then send it to the carding mill out to the other valley. 116 |