Joseph moved his family to Mountain Green and here he soon built a very comfortable home, but the Indians became very troublesome and Brigham Young advised them all to move to Morgan in 1855, staying until 1868. Here Joseph farmed a piece of ground and did carpenter work and team work on a grist mill, saw mill and school house. He also assisted in road making and helped on bridges. As the Indians had become more peaceful he moved back to Mountain Green to their home in 1868 and from then until the railroad was completed, he Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together worked his teams hauling timber for bridges and ties for the Union Pacific railroad and watched the first engine pass over the new road. He continued cutting and hauling ties for the railroad to use for sidings and switches and worked at carpenter work and farming until 1878 when he moved his family to Hooper, where he purchased forty acres. He lived to the ripe age of ninety-four and was the father of twenty-four children. He had been intimately acquainted with Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and early church authorities. ©9 Abiah Wadsworth, Sr. Abiah Wadsworth, his wife Eliza Hardy Wadsworth, and family of six children, were pioneers in 1852, arriving in Salt Lake City with Captain Day's Company, on September 17, 1852. They remained one day in Salt Lake City, then Brigham Young called them to join a company who were going to settle in a small place then called East Weber, now Uintah, Weber County. Here they lived until the fall of 1858, when they moved to a small town in Weber Canyon called Mountain Green, where they again built homes and worked at his trade as a carpenter. He made many different and useful articles to help in the new homes, such as furniture, churns, tubs, Barrel Perkins (a small wood tub or container for storing lard or butter). He was a very Ahiai: W'ojlsa-orth, Br. good blacksmith, at which trade he also worked. He helped build most of the earliest houses in East Weber and Mountain Green. Early in 1866, the Indians became troublesome and Brigham Young advised the people of the smaller settlements to move where there were more settlers, and the Wadsworths moved to Morgan. Abiah and his first wife lived in a one room log cabin, on the Ben Smith property. Here again he became very active in helping to build up the community in which he lived. He helped build a grist mill, saw mill, granaries, store, bridges and an number of dwelling houses mostly built of logs. He also acted as bishop for two years of what is now North Morgan Ward, and as he was of a very jolly jovial disposition, he became very popular with the younger people. He was a very good athlete and was missed very much when he moved back to Mountain Green in the early part of 1868. He then moved to Hooper in September of the same year. He was the father of twenty children as he had two wives. He later moved to Taylor, Idaho, where he again helped to build up a new community. He died April 18,1899, in Taylor, Idaho. Higher Education. In the early days of Utah, when all the schools were little, one-room, one-teacher schools, a little boy named Richard Taggart was attending one of these schools. The teacher, Joseph R. Porter, was trying to teach a group of small children to read. He wrote the word "bed" on a slate and held it up. "Can anyone tell me this word?" he asked. The question was met by puzzled frowns and silence. "What?" said the teacher, "you can't tell me what b-e-d spells? What do you sleep on at night?" "I know what it spells," shouted Richard, "it's sheep's skin!"