Pioneers Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. They arrived in Salt Lake on October 29, 1854, and made their first home there. Elizabeth and her daughters made a living putting reed bottoms in chairs and tending small children. When Ann was fifteen years old, they moved from Salt Lake City to Centerville, Utah. It was there she met her future husband, Gillispie Walter Waldron. The wedding of Gillispie and Ann was plain with no costly apparel. Gillispie said to Ann, "I have nothing to offer you but all my love." Together they walked up on the hillside and dug the sweet bulbs of the sego lilies and that is what they had for their wedding supper. The Indians believed the sego lilies to be a gift of the Great Spirit in time of hunger. The couple built a small log house in the Malad Valley. The Indians became so hostile they had to give up their farm and home and return to Centerville. They had their first baby and named him Joseph Theodore. He was born on September 10,1859. In the early part of the year 1861, they were called by President Brigham Young to settle in Weber Valley. Gillispie, Ann and family left Centerville, Davis county, Utah and traveled to Weber Canyon. A crude road had been built earlier through Weber Canyon. It was so narrow and hazardous that most of the travelers walked and the driver would lead the horses or oxen and wagon around the narrow stretch commonly called Horseshoe Bend. They found Weber Valley was a beautiful valley in the rocky mountains. They built a two room log house on the high lands near the base of the hills, west of the creek, where Richville is now located. The first houses built by the settlers that year consisted of about a half dozen houses. There were many Indians and they had some trouble but they soon made friends with them. Brother Gillispie Walter Waldron says, "that when he arrived at Richville, April 6,1861, with his family, accompanied by John Henry Rich and others, work was commenced at once on the ditch. They plowed with a single hand plow and ox team and used a pick and shovel and leveled by eye." This ditch afterwards became known as the West Richville Irrigation Canal Company, tapping East Canyon Creek about one mile south of the Center of Richville. That season the ditch was finished for a distance of one mile and the water brought through the same and used for irrigation, domestic, and stock water purposes. In 1862 a few more settlers arrived. The ditch commenced the previous year was extended about a mile and one-half. On August 31, 1862, a baby Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together daughter was born to them; they named her Ann Elizabeth Waldron. Gillispie plowed the sage brush loose from the virgin soil, and picked and burned it. He harrowed the soil with a home made wooden tooth harrow. Harvested the grain with a cradle scythe and tied the bundles by hand. Thrashing was done by the tumbling rod and horse drawn in a rotary fashion; grain had to be fanned by hand mill. Principal crops were wheat, oats, barley, alfalfa, clover, potatoes, and vegetables. The first school house at Richville, a log building eighteen by twenty-four feet, was erected in 1863 and served for meetings, school, and social purposes. It had a fireplace at one end for heating. Gillispie and Ann worked hard making their own flour by grinding it with a hand mill. They made their soap and their own clothing and candles, their only means of light by night. The grist mill which was started in Richville in 1862 started running in the spring of 1864. It was the first grist mill in Morgan county. Prior to its completion, many teams hauled grain over the mountains in a southwestern direction into Salt Lake Valley to be milled. In 1867-1868 the crops were destroyed by grasshoppers and some of the brethren were employed on the Union Pacific Railroad. Lumber became a leading industry in Hardscrabble Canyon. Thousands of ties were hauled from Hardscrabble with ox teams to a lumberyard in Richville. As the railroad progressed, the ties were hauled as far as Echo and as far west as Weber Canyon. The railroad was completed through Morgan County in 1869. A number of the men again worked on the grade and assisted in laying the track. The railroad coming through Morgan brought many avenues of trade and ways of making money. Gillispie Walter Waldron and Ann Dewhurst Waldron were married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, November 15,1869. Bishop Willard G. Smith appointed Gillispie Walter Waldron to be Presiding Elder of the Richville Branch in 1873. He presided until 1877 when the Richville Branch was organized as a ward and became a part of the Morgan Stake. When the Morgan Stake of Zion was organized July 1, 1877, Gillispie was sustained as first counselor of the Richville Ward and served for twenty-nine years. Lucy Emeline Waldron was the last child born in the little log house, August 13,1881. On September 13, 1907, Gillispie and Ann lived to enjoy their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They lived together for sixty-two years. :>:>b