Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together and carpets. The dye was made from log wood for black, copper for yellow, rabbit brush for green, and indigo for blue. She also prepared wool for yarn by washing, spinning, and sometimes dying it. She would then knit the yarn into socks, stockings, and mittens for the family. She was an expert at making salt-rising bread. She was hospitable and charitable and her home was open to people coming from far and near. Often her home was the abode for strangers for weeks at a time, and no thought of pay was ever entertained. In January of 1896, her husband went on a mission to the southern states. During this time, payments had to be made on the farm. She made these payments, provided for the family, and paid the expenses of the missionary because of her careful supervision and hard work. She used to make ice cream and sell it at different public events. In 1898 when the Porterville church was erected, she provided room and board for the stone cutters who cut the stones for the building. She has made hundreds of yards of carpet and hundreds of patchwork quilts. She was the mother of ten children; six girls and four boys. The children in order of their birth were: Henrietta, Emily Jane, Joseph and Adria (twins), Emetine, Benjamin Thomas, Arnold Coulsen, Samantha Ann, Hosea, and Ruth. Joseph died when he was two months old. Benjamin died at five years. Hosea was eleven months and Ruth was three months when they died. Arnold C. died at the age of thirty-four, leaving a wife and five children. Her brother William's wife died at the birth of one of their children, Mathias Cowley Brough. At the request of her brother, she took the baby. She gave him special care and was very cautious, but he died when he was one year old. She had a quiet and reserved disposition and was always doing good for others. She was always called to assist in laying away the dead of the ward. ©9- Martha Pascoe Richards My mother's name was Martha Pascoe Richards. She was born on June 8, 1817, at Creemlyn, South Wales. She was the daughter of William Pascoe and Elizabeth Reece Pascoe, the granddaughter of William Pascoe and Martha Newman Pascoe, who migrated from Ayshire and settled in South Wales in the seventeenth century. Through some misunderstanding, her parents separated, her father returned to his father's home taking my mother with him. Thomas, John and Ann were left with her mother. Her father and grandparents were very strict religious people, and very wealthy, keeping all kinds of servants, and uncles, nine in number. They would not allow my mother to write, nor see her mother, but when she was twelve years old, she told them she was going to her mother and she chose mother's love to wealth and education. She said she would soon be able to earn her living. Her mother was very successful as a first class dressmaker and tailor, so she was capable of taking care of the family. As Martha developed into womanhood, she earned her living by working as a maid and sometimes as cook. She and her mother joined the church about 1844, these being the only two of my mother's family that joined the church. While attending the services of the L.D.S. church, she met my father who was a member, and they were both desirous of emigrating to Utah. They were married on April 27,1850, leaving Wales the same year. They located for a time at St. Louis where two children were born, John and Elizabeth Mary. After the birth of the second child, the weather was extremely hot and mother was very ill. They had made preparations to start for Utah. When the baby was three weeks old, she was carried from her bed to the covered wagon and they started on their journey, accepting the advice of the attending physician that she might live if they left St. Louis. They traveled in President Crosby's Company. My mother was very ill all the way across the plains, unable to care for her two babies. She felt nervous in crossing streams and every stream needed wading in order to cross. My mother was carried in my father's arms across the streams of water. He first carried two chairs, then mother and then the children, Mar!ha Pascoe Richards i rid