Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together Mary Ann Peterson Stevens Mary Ann Peterson Stevens was born in Burlington County, New Jersey, December 25,1839. She was the daughter of Charles Shreeve Peterson and Ann B. Dennis Peterson. Her mother died when she was four years old. There were two brothers; George, who was older than Mary Ann, and Andrew, younger. In the autumn of 1849, they came to Utah with their father and stepmother, walking most of the way across the plains. In January 1855 her father settled at Mountain- ville (Alpine), Utah County. In 1854 she was married to my father, Roswell Stevens, and in 1855 they and her father's family came to Weber Valley. She endured all the hardships of pioneering in a new country including the grasshopper plague. On December 14,1855, she gave birth to her first child, it being the first white girl born in Weber Valley (now Morgan County). About 1860 they moved to Centerville; she then had three children. A wind storm came and blew off the roof of the house they were living in and she and her children ran to a stable with a straw roof on it. This was the only house they had until the storm was over and the roof was put back onto their house. Two more children were born while she lived in Centerville. At the time they started to build the railroad my parents moved to Echo and they were moved out of their hut, in a rain storm, in order for the railroad company to set a telegraph pole where the hut stood. The only place for them to get shelter was in a dugout in the side of the hill. This dugout was my birthplace on October 18, 1866. Two years later they moved to Echo Canyon where my father had taken up some land. Before he could build a house to move into, mother gave birth to her seventh child. This was on September 20, 1869, and the only home she had was under a ledge of rock. A few years later father sold his ranch in Echo Canyon to the Heiner brothers, and we moved to Upton, Summit County, Utah. They had a few sheep and mother corded her own wool and spun it and knit socks and stockings for her family. When the diphtheria epidemic broke out in Summit County and so many people died, my father was the only carpenter there and he made the coffins. My mother covered them with black calico and padded the inside with cotton, lined them with bleach and trimmed them with lace. She gave birth to eleven children and never had a doctor when any of them was born. She raised all but her youngest child to maturity and they all married and had large families. The youngest child died when only six weeks old. She was a widow for forty-six years and made a living by nursing She spent the last eleven years of her life with me in my home in Morgan; during the World War she knitted socks for the soldiers. She lived a good and useful life and was never idle. She died February 9,1924, at the age of eighty-four years. ©9 Judson Lyman Stoddard Judson L. Stoddard was a pioneer of the year 1848 arriving here in Brigham Young's company on September 20,1848. He was born in the township of Upper Canada, April 13, 1823, being 5he son of Lyman Stoddard and Ruth Wright Stoddard. When he was thirteen years old, he with his parents joined the Church. In Missouri they endured hardships and with the rest were compelled to leave their home and go to Nauvoo. From Nauvoo he was called to fill a mission in New York State. He labored with Elder John S. Gleason. In the fall of 1845 both elders returned home together. Later in the fall of 1845, on October 29, Judson met and married Rhoda Chase, the second daughter of Isaac and Phoebe Ogden Chase. In the spring of 1846 he with his wife left Nauvoo and started for Salt Lake Valley, spending the following winter in Winter Quarters. The next spring found them in Council Bluffs and in the spring of 1848 they started on their journey across the plains. They reached the Salt Lake valley the following September. The first winter was spent in the Fort (now Pioneer Square) where all the Saints lived as one family. In the spring of 1849 the family moved to what was known as North Canyon just north of Salt Lake City. Later they moved to what is now Centerville, there being only three families there at the time. Here he took a second wife, Sylvia, older sister to Rhoda. At this time Judson L. Stoddard with A. O. Smoot and Porter Rockwell had charge of the mail service known then as the Pony Express. These three men