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Show her children were older and then moved to Salt Lake. Louisa married Benjamin Jones. They moved to Arizona and then to Idaho. Charles married Margaret Catherine Robison. They took over the farm in Round Valley from his parents (William and Martha) and lived in Morgan all their lives. Rebecca married James Tucker and settled in Morgan. William and Martha lived true to the gospel principles, doing everything they were asked to do. He was very liberal with his means and did much good towards building up the community, giving money Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together toward the erecting of school and meeting houses, ditches, roads and other enterprises for the up building and growth of the town and county. He was one of the organizers and stockholders of the Morgan City Zion Co-operative Commercial Institution. In about 1902 or 1903 they moved from the old home in Round Valley to Morgan where they spent their remaining days. Martha died September 14, 1911. William lived to the ripe age of eighty years. He died on March 29, 1912, and was buried beside his dear wife in the South Morgan Cemetery. ©9- John Toone and His Wives Emma Prosser Toone Hannah Wardell Toone Jemima Cook Toone "Z John Toone John Toone was born to John Toone and Elizabeth Reading Toone on April 10, 1813, at Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. Being the eldest of fourteen children, John had many advantages. He and his four brothers were all given a good education, as their father was a prominent builder and contractor in Leamington. It was important to him that his sons learn the trades of plumber, plasterer, builder, painter, and carpenter. Some of the special things John studied were law, medicine, and music. He had a strong thirst for knowledge, reading, and studying many books. He was a talented musician and played his violin in the Royal Orchestra of Queen Victoria, as well as at the Old Salt Lake Theatre and Social Hall. Old time dances at Croydon, Henefer, and Echo often heard the lively strains of John's fiddle. John was about twenty-two years of age when he met and fell in love with a lovely and refined young lady whose name was Emma Prosser. She was born April 26,1819, at Herefordshire, England, the third child of James Prosser and Mary Ann Morgan Prosser, who had nine children, six girls and three boys. Emma was tall and slender with brown hair and sparkling brown eyes, along with a lovely smile. She was reared in a comfortable home with nice clothes and pleasant surroundings. She grew up happy and secure. She had a good education and special training in dressmaking and fancy sewing, which came in very handy in her pioneer years. John was a tall handsome fellow, well over six feet, with an abundance of curly hair and smiling blue eyes. When he was twenty-three years old, and Emma but seventeen, they were married in the Leamington Chapel on June 12, 1836. They made their home in Leamington, where six of their eight children were born and two were buried. There had been Mormon missionaries in Leamington a number of times, but they were not too successful in making converts in that part of England. In 1848 Brother Alfred Cordon, who had been converted years before, and lived at that time in Willard, Utah, was sent on a mission to England. While in Leamington and Warwick he preached the :>o i |