Her father moved from Ogden to Morgan in the year of 1882 and bought the farm now owned by Mrs. Howard Thackeray. Their home, a fifteen room structure, stood where the Thackeray barn now stands. It was a lovely home for those days. At that time there were great mining prospects in the Morgan vicinity. Rutha was small built and pretty, and remembers many boy friends that use to call on her during her teen age. She also remembers very vividly, when she first met tall, handsome Thomas Palmer Jr. It was in July the summer of 1885. Thomas Jr. was driving cattle with Thomas Condie of Morgan to the summer range on the ranch in Croydon owned by Thomas Palmer Jr. and his brother. They were ready to leave Morgan at noon. James Stewart asked them to eat at his table before they left. Rutha, age nineteen, small, dainty and very pretty, and also a good cook, had prepared the dinner. She had also scrubbed the kitchen floor spotlessly white. When the two young men came in, although Thomas Palmer Jr. was very shy, Rutha was aware of something different about him that she had never noticed in any other young man she had ever met. But she also remembers that she was very annoyed, because the young men splashed dirty water from the wash basin on her clean white floor. Whether it was Rutha's pretty daintiness or the lovely dinner she had cooked or both, Thomas was very much attracted by her. One week later, he asked Rutha to go to the Fourth of July dance with him. Rutha noticed his shyness more than ever this night, for he walked her all the way to South Morgan without so much as taking her arm, when she wanted so much for him to put his arm all the way around her waist. Well, anyway, this meeting budded into a romance that lasted one and one half years. During this time, Thomas Jr. rode his horse, once or twice a week, from Lost Creek to Morgan to see Rutha. Their marriage took place on New Year's Day in 1887, at the home of Rutha's sister. It was solemnized by Bishop O.B. Anderson of the North Morgan Ward. Two years later they were remarried in the Logan LDS Temple. The marriage continued on for fifty-six years. After their marriage, the young couple moved to Croydon and their home was one of the nicest at that time. Thomas Jr. was twenty-nine years old. He had saved his money and with this he bought his farm. Their furniture was the best that could be bought at that time. They had a homemade carpet on the bedroom floor. The kitchen floor was bare, but Rutha kept it scrubbed very white. There was not a happier couple in the country, and on January 10,1888, a sweet little girl was born Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together to them, named Lavina. This happiness lasted only seven short month, for in July of the same year, little Viney took whooping cough and died. Their happiness shattered for the time, Rutha and Thomas Jr. left Croydon and moved to North Morgan and made their home in a little rock house where Rutha could be close to her sister, and there, on October 12,1891, another baby girl was born to them. They named her Hattie, and two years later on Christmas Day, another little girl was born. They named her Rutha after her mother, but she lived only one week and died on New Year's Day. January 12,1896, still another baby girl came and she was called Ida. When Ida was ten months old, Thomas Jr. was called on a mission to the Southern States. Thomas Jr. rented his farm and with the money he had saved, fulfilled a twenty-six month mission. After returning home, Thomas Jr. resumed work on his farm. June 12,1900, their first son, James Thomas, was born and the second son, Earl William, was bom December 11,1902. A third son, Frank Parley, was bom April 10,1906, and Rhea was born October 27,1911, making eight children. About the year of 1914 or 1915, Thomas Jr. had a very serious illness and tells this incident of a visit of three personages who he thinks were the Three Nephites. He had been ill for several months. In April or May he was in the hospital with three abscesses on his lungs. He stayed for ten days. He had been promised complete recovery by the elders of the Church from the beginning of his illness. After returning home, he did not regain his health as he had been promised. He became very discouraged with the condition he was in. The doctor said there was very little hope of complete recovery; his family was really in need and his crops were a complete failure. So he decided to ask the Lord why he had been deprived of the promise of the priesthood. He prayed, asking if there was anything standing in the way that he could overcome. As a direct answer to his prayer in the middle of the night, three personages visited him and told him as they stood at the foot of his bed, that he would recover, and that before morning that which was on his lungs would slip off and he would enjoy better health than he had ever had before. The three personages, he said, were of medium build and they had very pleasing voices. He did not see from where they came, or where they went, but he did enjoy the blessings they promised. And up until the age of eighty-three did some work on his farm. There was no doubt in his mind that these were the Three Nephites spoken of in the Book of Mormon.