Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together direction of James P. Park, bound for Utah. The date of the landing of the ship in Boston and how long it took to get to the place of outfitting is not known, but I remember them saying that they fitted out at Florence, Nebraska. They came in Captain Jesse B. Martin's Company arriving in Salt Lake City, September 12,1857. The army was following them across the plains and Mother had to walk all the way and waded every stream except the Platte River which the company crossed on a ferry boat. She carried her one year old baby on her back the entire distance. After arriving in the valley, the move was on and she went south as far as Lehi while father was sent into Echo Canyon to help keep the soldiers back. How long she remained in Lehi I do not know, but a daughter was bom October 20,1858. She found a good staunch friend in the person of Bishop Israel Evans who was kind and considerate of those who were poor and in need. They returned to Salt Lake City in 1860 and on April 4, they received their endowments and were sealed by President Brigham Young. Mother remained in the city until November of that year when father (who had been in Weber Valley during the cropping season working for Jessie C. Little) returned to Salt Lake City and took her to this valley as it was beginning to be settled. They lived in a log shack belonging to Jessie C Little during the winter of 1860-61 and had nothing but boiled wheat to eat. The log hut was covered with willows and straw and a coating of dirt. During the late winter and spring, as well as every time it rained, the house was worse than outdoors because the water was dirty instead of being clean like the melting snows and rains, the storms continued so much longer in the house. When her third son was born November 11, 1862, they had to use umbrellas to keep the water out of the bed as the house leaked so badly. After living in Littleton a year or two, the family moved up and built a log cabin on the corner where the road turns northward from Morgan to Milton known as Welch's Corner where they lived until about 1866. One of the greatest trials of her pioneer life was cooking over a fireplace and, oh, how she longed and prayed for a stove on which to cook on. She used to tell of a dream she had in the days of poverty in which she saw a stove that could be Laniih/ofl'honias R. C. Welch and Harriet Nash Welch. Picture taken about 1873. bought for fifteen cents, but she did not have the fifteen cents with which to make the purchase. She was the mother of nine children, seven boys and two girls. On girl and one boy died in infancy and one boy died with diphtheria when eighteen years old. When the Primary Association was organized in Morgan Stake in 1878, she was chosen as Stake President. She held that position until the time of her death fifteen years later. At this same time she acted for twelve years as president of the ward primary. On one occasion the children were singing the little song, "Open the Door to the Children" and she received the inspiration then and there to have the children gather means to emigrate some poor children from the old country, which was accomplished. She furnished some of them a home till they grew to man and womanhood. Her home was always filled with some poor orphan child or children as well as her own. She was sick for many years before she died and suffered a great deal, but through it all she put her trust in the Lord. Her husband made a trip to England before her death gathering considerable genealogy and the work for her kindred was begun by her in the temples of the Lord. No person was more beloved by children than this woman and when she died September 25,1894, she was literally buried in a grove of flowers that children and grown folks brought from all over Morgan Stake, tokens of the love and respect in which she was held by all who knew her. ©9'