Soon after they arrived in Nauvoo trouble commenced which resulted in the destruction of the printing press and ultimately the martyrdom of the prophet. He wrote about this time, ". . . the people mourned as I have never seen people mourn, either before or since. It seemed that heaven and all things around us wept and were in mourning." Only three months after the death of the prophet, Ann died and left Charles with four small children. The youngest was only three months old. This child lived one more year then passed away to join his mother. In 1845 he married Mary Ann Patton. From this union three children were born. Charles and his family, with the remainder of the saints in Nauvoo, worked to complete the Nauvoo temple, then were driven from their home to make their way west. In obedience to a call from Brigham Young he gave up his team and wagon to assist the first company of Saints on their journey west and he remained behind to help make wagons to carry the saints to a place of refuge. During this time he married Mary Ann's half-sister, Ann, in plural marriage. Thirteen children were to bless this union. Ann had moved to Nauvoo with her father in 1842. She, too, had been present in Nauvoo during the martyrdom of the prophet and the completion of the Nauvoo Temple. Ann had great respect and love for the Prophet Joseph Smith. When she was a young woman Joseph had come to their home soon after they moved to Nauvoo. Though she had never seen him, she was thrilled from head to foot and she knew beyond a doubt that he was the Prophet. Upon arriving in Utah, Charles first settled his family in Alpine, but in a few short years he and a friend Thomas Jefferson Thurston decided to settle in the Weber Valley. During the winter of 1854-55, they forged a road up Weber Canyon, blasting rocks from the walls of the canyon, then breaking them to form a very rough road bed. By spring they were able to bring their families and some livestock into the valley. Charles and his family settled in the northwestern part of the valley and established Weber City. The name was later changed to Peterson in honor of the early settlers. Soon after settling in the valley, Mary Arm left the family. Charles kept the child from their marriage. This left Ann, a young mother (age twenty-four), now the caretaker and mother of eight children aged seventeen to one. Her daughter later wrote, "Mother was equal to the task and cared for all the children as if they were her own. Ann's daughter leaves us an interesting account of those early years on the farm in Peterson. "Those were trying times when the Indians roamed the country. In Utah, forts were built around the towns, that the people might protect themselves from the Indians. This family - the first white settlers Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together - moved into that valley, without any protection, except their faith in the Lord and the protection that came through their kindness to the Indians. I never heard of the Indians harming them or anything belonging to them, but Father would give them flour and meat; and Mother would feed them when they came to the house. Often, when they awakened in the morning, they would find Indians curled up in their blankets lying asleep on the floor. In those days, people did not have locks on their doors, as we do now. They were not to be had. They had only latches, and the Indians moved so quietly that they could come up to the door and pull the string on the latch and slip into the house without being heard. At that early day in Utah, everybody was poor. Clothing and food were hard to obtain, as everything in the shape of clothing had to be freighted in from the Missouri River by team. Consequently, everything was very high, and money was out of the question. Between the crickets, grasshoppers, and frost, food was just as hard to get as clothes, so we had to wear patched clothes until at times the must have resembled Joseph's coat of many colors. It was often hard to tell which was the original cloth, Mother would have to wash our clothes after we were in bed and dry them before the fire for us to put on the next morning, but we were always kept as neat and clean as possible under the conditions. Mother never complained, and we were healthy and happy. Sewing machines had never been heard of then; all sewing had to be done by hand. There were no washing machines, electric power, nor even coal-oil lamps. Everyone used tallow candles which they made themselves. Mother had some candle-moulds, and we used candles as late as 1870; we got a coal-oil lamp about that time. In those early days we did not have stoves. All cooking and warming of the house had to be done with the fireplace. All the baking had to be done in an old-fashioned Dutch oven, and all frying was done in a frying pan on the hot coals in front of the fireplace. The boiling was done by hanging iron kettles on an iron rod that was suspended across the chimney. In the summer time, the water for washing was heated in big iron kettles hung over the fire out of doors; but in the wintertime it had to be heated in smaller kettles hung in the fireplace. Wooden tubs, made like a half-barrel were used and father made mother's washboards from pine or cottonwood planks, using a plow plane to make the ribs on which the clothes were rubbed. All the soap she had was soap she had made herself from wood ashes. The ashes were put in a big wooden box called a 'bleach' and water was poured over them. The water was caught at the bottom of the box as it leaked off the 125