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Annie Maria Hansen Morrison - Find-a-Grave bio
Birth: Nov. 21, 1846, Denmark
Death: Dec. 2, 1904
Richfield
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Ms. Maria Morrison of this city died yesterday forenoon at the age of 58 years. She had been an invalid for nearly two years and for weeks had been confined to her bed in a almost helpless condition as a result of a stroke of paralysis. She was a widow of the late William Morrison, whom she married at Mr. Pleasant in 1863.
Mrs. Morrison was a native of Denmark and came to this country with her widowed mother in 1859. They settled first at Ephraim, then moved to Mt. Pleasant, and, after her marriage in 1863, the deceased came with her husband to Sevier County. They were among the first settlers of Richfield, but had to retire to Sanpete County on account of the Indian troubles in early times. After peace had been established they resettled here and there until their deaths. Seven children were born to the couple, all of whom are living. Fred Hansen of this city is now the only living member of the deceased's brothers.
Salt Lake Tribune
4 December 1904
Born: Lejbolle, Bostrup, Langelands Norre Herred, Svendborg, Denmark
Family Links:
Parents:
Hans Godtfred Hansen (1817-1857)
Mettie Marie Neilson Hansen (1816-1884)
Spouse:
William Morrison (1820-1889)
Children:
Martha Maria Morrison Horne (1863-1944)
Charles Henry Morrison (1867-1949)
Robert Bruce Morrison (1868-1954
Mary Ann Morrison Drake (1871-1959)
Mary Margaret Morrison (1874-1959)
Cosmelia Morrison (1878-1879)
Arthur William Morrison (1881-1938)
Isabella Morrison Cushing (1883-1942)
Siblings:
Dorthe Marie Hansen (1842-1882)
Annie Marie Hansen Morrison (1846-1904)
Hans Niels Hansen (1849-1895)
Frederick Larsen Godtfredson Hansen (1853-1925)
*calculated relationship
Burial:
Richfield City Cemetery
Richfield
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Plot: A.07.03.02
Maintained by: Wiltstilt13
Originally Created by: Utah State Historical Society
Record added: Feb. 02, 2000
Find A Grave Memorial #39440
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Life Story of Caroline Christine Iverson Morrison by her son, Walter William Morrison
Compiled from Father's Journal, oral narratives to her children and grand-children, and from memory. By her son, Walter William Morrison
Posted on Ancestry.com 14 Oct 2016 by "mbones0415"
Posted on Ancestry.com 14 Oct 2016 by "mbones0415"
More than thirty-eight years have passed since Mother died. It is pleasant to recall and to think of recording the changes, the achievements - even the hardships and adversities of a life consecrated to the well-being of her companions and her posterity. Her first born, James Bruce, who came before her nineteenth year, would have done it much better. But her youngest daughter, Lula, has confirmed and added to my memory of the stories that have become a heritage of her family.
She had inherited qualities of patience, industry, integrity, and self-reliance from her sturdy Danish father and mother who, among the "pure in heart" accepted the message of the early missionaries to Denmark. Being thrifty, with a trace of Jewish blood in the Father, they were soon ready for migration to Utah, a family of seven - two boys and three daughters. Hans Peter remained to complete a mission.
They set sail from Denmark 24 November 1855 across the North Sea to England, then by rail to Liverpool. They sailed from Liverpool on the John J. Boyd 12 December under Canute Peterson. They had a very stormy passage, being driven back to the Irish Coast after about a third of the way across the Atlantic. After eleven weeks and five days they reached New York and were warmly greeted by Apostle John Taylor. President Peterson took his company by rail to points in Illinois and Missouri until ready for the journey across the plains. Jeppe Iverson and family waited at Alton, Illinois a short distance north of St. Louis where most of the Saints waited.
The Canute Peterson Company left St. Louis on the S. S. Arabia up the Missouri River on 2 June 1856 for Florence, Nebraska where they made preparations for the journey by ox team to Utah. William and Margaret Morrison and other Saints were with this company from St. Louis. They left Florence on 26 June, and reached Salt Lake City on 20 September.
Caroline Christine Iverson was born 15 December 1842 at Vestbirk, Skanderborg, Denmark. She was not yet 14 years old when they reached Utah. Jeppe Iverson went to live with a Danish settlement at Ephraim. William Morrison lived about two years in Salt Lake City. He was called and served for six weeks in March and April, 1858 in the Utah militia sent out to intercept the U.S. troops under General Albert Sidney Johnston. When released he found that his wife had been moved to Ephraim and followed them there.
In the interval since arriving at Salt Lake City, Jeppe had persuaded Christina to accept the proposal of a brother Gubler to become his plural wife. The event proved to be a definite indication of her mental integrity and her self reliance. Brigham Young, about to perform the ceremony, asked her if she wanted to marry this man. She very decisively replied "no" and President Young said to Brother Gubler, "Take this child to her parents." Later events proved that our name was to be Morrison. Christina had been employed in the family of William Morrison, and in "eight or ten months" she became, with consent of Margaret, his wife - sealed to him by Apostle Amasa M. Lyman in the presence of Warren Snow, George Peacock, and Caleb Edwards, 11 July 1859. This ceremony was probably performed in Ephraim because Father's Journal stated, "I take two wives with me from Ephraim."
Mother began her life work very young. Infant William G.C. Morrison was only a year old when she was employed in the family and Williamina was only four months old when mother was married.
William Morrison was called with others to settle at what later became Mt. Pleasant. Jeppe Iverson and family was moved to Mt. Pleasant. The next five years life followed an even tenor; she learned to love Margaret and all of her children have imbibed that sentiment. James Bruce was born 7 November 1860; and Amanda Puella 10 September 1865.
A letter dated 15 November 1864, from Apostle Orson Hyde to Bishop Seely, directed a call for William Morrison to lead 29 other brethren of Mt. Pleasant to settle on the Sevier River as soon as they could prepare for the move. On January 29, 1865 father drove up to the meeting house at Richfield, "while Sunday meeting was in session" and by request of Bishop Higgins bore his testimony. It seems that Christina and her two children must have been with him, because he records that he purchased a house which he could occupy in three weeks.
Under date of 2 September 1865 he writes, "Here at Mt. Pleasant all is well" and stated that he is in receipt of law books for Sevier County - Probate Judge. Arriving so early in the year at Richfield, no doubt Father and Mother planted a garden; but there is no other means of support mentioned except his appointment as Probate Judge. Father had taken another wife - August, 1861, Anna Maria Hansen, who had lived next door in Mt. Pleasant for more than a year. He mentions going to the grave of her second daughter, Hannah, while on this visit.
Mother's third child was born at Richfield, 25 November 1866, a son named Alexander. They were not to enjoy peace very long. The Indians under Chief Black Hawk were driving their livestock away and killing the settlers when too few opposed them. Three were killed while on their way to Glenwood to do some shopping. On 20 April 1867 Richfield was abandoned, all of the settlers in Sevier returned to their former homes in the larger settlements.
During this time Annie Christina was born at Mt. Pleasant, 4 May, 1869. She was named for grandmother Iverson. Evacuation due to Indian depredations lasted four years. Father with mother and four children were among the first to return. It was necessary for father to return to Mt. Pleasant so for a few weeks mothers and children and James M. Petersen, age 21 tending livestock were the only white inhabitants in the settlement. Baby Annie subsisted largely on milk the young man brought daily. Soon there were eight families and two single men in the village. (The following incident is referred to the time of the first settlement as Juanita has heard it from her father, My impression has always been that it was when Annie was the baby). The Indians were ugly. One young buck came to the home and demanded bread. Mother was on her knees scrubbing the floor. When she told him she had no bread he lashed her with his riding whip. She ignored him and he went away saying "heap braze squaw."
After the settlement was reestablished, mother's home became a civic center. Father made application for a post office and became the first postmaster as he had been in Mt. Pleasant. The office was in her home, and the room was always thereafter called the Office. Later, when the Deseret Telegraph Company extended their service to Richfield, the office was installed in the former post office room.
Hannah Jane Spencer came from Sauna as Telegraph Operator. She taught Amanda telegraphy and when Mrs. Spencer left Richfield Amanda became operator at age thirteen. Mother and Amanda purchased the first reed organ in the village. Choir rehearsals were held at our house. This was at the time of the United Order - 1874 (19 April) to 24 November 1877 - when Elder Orson Hyde recommended "prompt and decisive winding up the Order." The ward chorister requested possession of the organ, but Mother vetoed the request. This narrative already indicates that Christina had little inclination for public service. Pioneering, home making, child care, nursing, and the virtues essential to such activity made life worth living for her.
George Charles was born 8 September 1871, one day after Father's fifty-first anniversary. Walter William was born 3 February 1874, while Father was representing Sevier County in the Legislature. William was born 10 December 1876 and died in his second year of scarlet fever. Walter was in bed from a relapse of the same disease when Willie was buried. This was the first death in the family of the only child Mother did not live to see married and with children. Lafayette was born 10 October 1880 and marriages began the next year.
Amanda P. Morrison married John August Hellstrom in the St. George Temple, 28 September 1881. I remember the delicious grapes (pickled) they brought home with them. James B. followed his fiancee, who had moved to Tuba, Arizona. He remained for some time to work for John W. Young as coachman driving four horse team between St. John and Flagstaff. He married Caroline Amanda Foutz in the St. George Temple, 30 January 1882 on the way home.
Father was plagued with stomach trouble; but to evade the U.S. Officers harassing the L.D.S. elders who had plural wives he purchased a ranch in Millcreek canyon a tributary of Clearcreek. Mother pioneered with him the first summer (1883) really enjoying it when there was no Indian trouble. At the end of the harvest she returned, Amanda with a daughter Juanita born 12 July 1883 came to care for mother and Lula and I tended Juanita. I could never thereafter sit near a cradle without keeping it in motion.
Lula was the ninth child and the end of that function proved very hard for mama. She became so ill that all the family gathered about her in tears. Annie took me aside asked me to go by myself and pray for mama. Young as I was, about 10, I went where a clump of wild currant bushes grew and offered such a prayer as a child would, and returned to find the family still weeping. Unnoticed, the climax had passed. Days before mama and "Cad" had been amused at a soap figure of a man nursing his toe. Mother said, "Cad, look at that soap man." That set them all laughing. In a few days she was active both indoors and out, as she had always been.
Amanda's second child was born and died 3 July 1885, named Celeste. Zitelle was born 21 August 1886, John August Junior was born 27 January 1889, and Amanda died of puerperal fever. This year was a great trial for mother. Grandmother Iverson died 14 February, thirteen days after Amanda. She had lived for years with Aunt Elizabeth Salisbury and was almost a daily visitor with Christina. She walked four blocks morning and evening, but at this time was growing weaker. Five year old Lula would meet her and go party way home with her almost until her death. Father died 26 August 1889, at his ranch, and was buried 28 August at Richfield, the same day as little Johnny who had been cared for by cousin Hannah Salisbury.
John A. Helistrom was soon called to the Swedish Mission and Juanita and Zitelle lived as part of our family. Soon after he returned he married a convert who had preceded him to Utah. They lived in Richfield for some time and then moved with his family to Salt Lake City where he found employment at Z.C.M.I. He was an expert accountant and penman. Juanita returned later and grew up with Lula.
During the eighties, Martin Andersen, a cousin of Christina came as a convert to Utah from Minnesota. He lived as one of our family several years. Being a skilled mason, he built of stone two rooms replacing the "office" and one bedroom, with bedrooms in the half story overhead. His sister who lived in Arizona sent a teenage son for Martin to care for during the summer.
Another summer in the eighties mother had a respite from unusual cares. She paid a visit to her older sister living with her Daughter Ardena Leslie in Salt Lake City. Aunt Maria was working in the Temple. Another family living near by was caring for an orphan boy from British India heir to a small fortune. The child seemed to be neglected and Mother entertained him with stories of farm life. Bert learned when Mother would return home. After she was on the train and well on her way he came into the car where she was. She brought him home with her, and kept him until his guardians came and got a court order for his custody. Mother told her story to the Judge, Nephi J. Bates. Bert was remanded to the care of his relatives, who were admonished by the court as to his care.
Uncle Peter Iverson, eluding the Federal Officers who were making it very distressing for those who had plural wives, came to our house very sick with pneumonia. Mother made him as comfortable as possible. She prepared a bran poultice to cover him completely except his head. This home remedy proved very effective. In a few days he was able to go on his way.
Mother and Annie financed my course in the Normal School of the Deseret University now the Utah University, from November 1888 to June 1891. Bishop Joseph Pollard of the fifteenth ward and father were converts and close friends in England and in St. Louis. I boarded at the Pollard home.
Annie married John W. Orrock, 23 December 1892 in Manti Temple. She had been teaching beginners' grades in Richfield school. When Viva was just old enough to stray away one block down to Main St. (Annie was teaching again) and Mother was tending Viva, this happened a second time. Her mama said to her, "Didn't I tell you I'd spank you if you ran away again?" Viva replied "I didn't wun mama, I dis alk, I dis alk." She didn't get a spanking. A few years later while John was on a Mission Annie was teaching again and Mother was with her children either at their home or ours.
Annie lived only a few minutes after the birth of her fifth child, she never regained consciousness and died a few minutes after Annie's birth. They named the child after its mother. Christina now cared for the children of her second daughter during their tender ears. There were four, Viva, Cyril, Beatrice and Annie. Leal had died in infancy. Artificial feeding was not so common then but Annie fared well. Annie Poulson and Lar's Baker's mother wet nursed Annie with a supplemental bottle which she nursed until she was five years old, "I want my pretty bottle" she used to cry.
Mother had me build two houses on the old homestead; one a five room place for rent; the other one a small home for herself, with cellar for milk, butter, etc. and shelving for cured meats, fruit, and vegetables. She was well known for the excellence of these things; and a cellar was essential for her kind of living comfort. Later she sold the new homes to Alex and returned to the old one.
This is where Lula and her four children shared the home with her; Lula worked for the White Sewing Machine Company and mother cared for the children of her youngest child.
On the 27th of January 1916, after the children were all in bed, Mother and Lula went to a cottage meeting in the home of Samuel C. Clark on the corner west from her home. A blizzard came on which would have made it very disagreeable if they had to go far. Lula slept in the bedroom downstairs and mother upstairs. To make the picture realistic, I let granddaughter Roma tell the final story, quoting from a letter just received from her, 5 April, 1955.
"I remember the family story, and it is hard to sort out my own memories from that. I do know that grandmother came to the big room over the kitchen on her way to bed. She did arrange the covers over me, and I think Enid. I remember the way she took the top cover by one end and shook it over us so that it settled down to cover us. I also remember waking the next morning when the school bell rang. I think it was 8:30. I think I went into her room and realized something was wrong, and that I went downstairs for mother. I'm sure I had very little realization of what it meant, because it was my first experience with death."
No sweeter tribute could be told than this recital of mother's solicitation for her grandchildren before lying down for her final sleep. When Dr. Neill came to see her he said, "She never tasted death."
History of William Morrison II by daughter Lula Morrison Barr
History of William Morrison II
by Lula Morrison Barr
(Daughter of William & Caroline Christina Iverson Morrison)
Pioneer of 1858
Camp Kimberly, Sevier County
Retyped and edited by Trena Horne Dodge, 20 Sept. 2008
Copy obtained from the International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers in June 2008
**Note there are discrepancies in this history from other histories and his diary.
Brief History of William Morrison II
William Morrison II was born in Inverury, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, September 7, 1820. He is the son of George Charles Morrison and Mary Ann Bruce Morrison. George Charles Morrison is the son of William Morrison I (Old Billie), a sea captain. His grandmother was a Forbes, a descent of Lord Forbes. Mary Ann Bruce was of royal descent, tracing to Robert Bruce, King of Scotland.
William Morrison II had two sisters, Mary and Elsie, and four brother, James, Charles II, George and Anthony. All of his brothers emigrated to Australia. Elsie married and went to New Zealand. Her husband was a McKenzie. Mary never married.
William Morrison II joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in August 1848 with his wife, Margaret Farquhar Cruickshank Morrison, whom he had married on December 22, 1843. He was baptized by Elder Thomas Bradshaw, at Woolwich. He presided over the Welling and Bromley branches of the Church. He had the privilege of baptizing his brother, James, a member of the church. He had received a fine education, which enabled him to be of great service as a Latter-day Saint. He wrote some of the Millennial Star while in England.
William Morrison II and family left England for Utah in 1854. They were detained in St. Louis, Missouri until 1856. He was ordained a member of the Church High Council while in St. Louis. William and Margaret lost their two oldest children before leaving Scotland, and then endured the added sorrow of the death of their little girl, Mary, while on ship board. She was buried at sea. (Note this is a discrepancy. Another history said they were blessed, because of their faithfulness, that there were no deaths at sea.) While they were in St. Louis, they lost their two remaining sons in a cholera epidemic, also Margaret's sister and her little son. During their stay in St. Louis, William earned a living as a ship carpenter, having had some training along that line.
The voyage to America required seven weeks. They sailed from Liverpool down the coast of Africa to strike the trade winds. While at sea, they had the misfortune of being grounded on a small island, one of the Bahamas. Here they found a friend from Scotland, who, in company with his wife, was serving as a Protestant missionary to the natives. The wife of the missionary had lived next door to William in Scotland. On arriving in America, they landed at New Orleans, and then proceeded up to the Mississippi River to St. Louis.
William and Margaret left St. Louis in 1856 alone, none of their children having survived, and traveled by boat up the Mississippi to Alton, where they joined the Knute (Canute) Peterson Company and a group of LDS immigrants, who had come from Denmark. They proceeded up the Missouri river to Florence and then continued their journey from there to Utah by ox team.
In the company there was a fourteen year old girl named Caroline Christina Iverson who assisted Margaret, during the journey.
William and his wife, Margaret, sometimes called Maggie, arrived in Salt Lake City on September 23, 1858, and settled in Sugar House. They left Sugar House for the south when the people abandoned their homes because of the Johnston's Army panic. Maggie and her little son, William III, born at Sugar House, left with a man who took refugees south, and they were taken care of by the Madsen family in Fort Ephraim until William II arrived. He had been with the men who had organized to defend the people against Johnston's Army. He had assisted in some very interesting and humorous strategy employed at this time. At Fort Ephraim, after joining Maggie once more since both William and Maggie wished to obey the law of plural marriage, he took as his second wife, Carolina Christina (Iverson) Morrison, to whom reference was made above. He later also married Annie Marie (Anna Marie) Hansen, and became the father of twenty-seven children. Later, William moved to Mt. Pleasant when that town was settled.
In the winter of 1864, William was called by Brigham Young, through Apostle Orson Hyde, to head a party of thirty men and their families who were to organize settlements in Sevier County. He had charge of that mission for some time. Maggie and her family remained in Mt. Pleasant. Carolina Christina, the mother of the writer, together with her two oldest children, James and Amanda, located in Richfield. Maria settled at Clear Creek Canyon.
William II had some knowledge of surveying and he assisted with the survey of the City of Richfield. He named the towns of Aurora and Inverury. He was appointed President of the High Priests. He was ordained as a Patriarch under the hands of Apostle Lorenzo Snow. He served two terms as a representative in the Utah Legislature and was a member of the Constitutional Convention, held in 1872. He was the first Probate Judge in Sevier County and was elected for a second term. He filled many other positions of trust such as school teacher, postmaster, telegraph operator, and stake clerk, in a manner which commanded the confidence and blessing of his brethren and fellow citizens. He performed a good work in the St. George Temple for the living and the dead and was also permitted to receive great blessings in the Manti Temple. He was a full tithe payer and donated liberally to the building of both temples. He lived and died a Patriarch in the fullest sense of the word.
A record kept by James, one of William's sons, says he was the first man to be menaced by the Indians at the beginning of the Black Hawk War. In the summer of 1865, he was traveling north from Richfield when he reached Christian Burg, or Twelve Mile, turning off the road to camp, he saw two Indians up by the bluffs among the cedars whose actions were strange. He decided therefore to go on three miles further to a place called Nine Mile. There he saw two armed Indians. He reached back in his wagon and got his own gun, stared the Indians down, and drove on to Manti, where he stopped with Harrison Edward. He told Mr. Edward of his experiences with the Indians that night and they agreed it looked bad. The next day word came that the Indians had killed Pete Ludwickson at Twelve Mile the same day William had escaped.
Later in 1866, during another trip, William passed a wagon with one ox lying down and one standing, but no one was in sight. About a mile from the wagon, he saw a pile of loose flour and again, further on, another pile of flour, and a little further on was a man's black hat. He thought some one had been drunk and went on his way, since he had traveled a lot on business and had seen many strange things. He later found that the Indians had attacked, killed and robbed Anthony Robinson. The man was found dead and also one ox was dead. It was the wagon which William had passed and he realized he had had another narrow escape.
I remember stories my mother told me of my father's very generous nature in regard to material things. There was a court room episode when he gave to a visiting attorney the Navajo rug from the floor because he admired it. Court was held in mother's bed chamber because of its comfort and beauty, created by her own hands. I am sure you will enjoy my mental picture of that room as I see it from mother's descriptions.
The walls of the room were snow white. A beautiful Navajo rug covered the white floor, the design of the rug being gray and black, worked with Indian designs. The washed white wool in the rug matched the walls and the design stood out in beautiful relief against the white wool which had been combed smooth with wool combs until it looked like angora satin. The bed had black turned posters and blankets on it were of white wool which had been washed, corded, spun and woven with her own hands. I have watched her do this work. The curtains were white. A mellow light from the fire place shed a brightness over the room. The beauty of the room, could it be seen now, would be a fitting tribute to a wonderful pioneer mother!
I remember another interesting story, that of the grave yard. There my father and a friend spent a night on the underground, as it was called, to hide from the officer spies who were making life miserable for the polygamists. My father and the other gentlemen took their beds to spend the night in the Richfield Cemetery, hoping for a peaceful night's rest. All went until shortly after midnight, when they were awakened by a terrifying thumping sound coming from the confines of a newly dug grave where something white was bobbing up and down. Of course, my father and his companion left that peaceful place without investigating. Next day, father's old white horse was missing and it proved to have been the guilty disturber of the night before. This cured father of the underground. He left for his Clear Creek ranch and sent word to the officers that they could find him there whenever they wanted him. The officers failed to go near the ranch and mother supposed they feared fortified defense. At any rate, father was never disturbed and he lived in peace until he died.
William and Maggie were happy to have the privilege of practicing the law of plural marriage, it being a religious principle to which both were converted. It was Maggie who picked my mother as second wife and told father to get her if he could, knowing her sterling qualities. Father's diary contains the following comment: "I deplore the practice of forcing our gentle women to go to Washington to undergo the indignities forced upon them there. I pray that my dear wives will be spared. I honor my plural wives among all my honored ladies, and I number the mothers of kings among them."
My father was very kind to children. My one personal memory of him was his taking me in his arms and keeping mother away from me when she had gone for a switch intended for some necessary chastisement.
Mother was the first woman in Richfield after the abandonment during the Black Hawk War. the city was abandoned in the first part of April, 1867. Mother had three children at that time, James, Amanda and Alex. Mother and children went with the settlers. Father had two teams, one drawn by horses and one by oxen. They camped the first night at Gravelly Ford, on the east side of the Sevier River, fourteen miles from Richfield. Father was detailed to stand guard the first night. My brother, Jim, remembers the boys of the camp forcing the animals to swim the river, and remembers that one fat hog sank and was drowned. He was six years old at the time and saw the things he remembered from his seat in the wagon. Mother has told me that she walked, carrying Alex, and helped to drive the hogs. Jim remembers that on the third day, the party separated, and he remembers seeing the men driving pigs and also the men shooing at the wild geese which circled the camp.
At the resettlement, mother told me of the Indians frightening her when she was alone. Father had gone to Sanpete for food. Mother kept the children still, four of them by this time, the youngest being Annie who was born at Mt. Pleasant. She put a stick across the door, to fool the Indians, who stormed in demanding food. Mother was scrubbing the floor and had no food to give them. They gave her several lashes with a whip and because she made no protest but went on scrubbing the floor, they left, calling her a "heap brave squaw."
Father was very fair and generous with all new settlers who came to the Sevier Valley. All of the Richfield city property was deeded to my father from the government as judge of the district and he always permitted newcomers to take their pick, when he could easily have kept the best for himself. Mother, being a thrifty Dane, remonstrated, saying they could be rich if he would only use a little wisdom, but my father replied, "We did not come here to get rich, but to serve the Lord." This he did faithfully until the day of his death which occurred August 26, 1889, at Clear Creek Canyon ranch. He was buried in the Richfield Cemetery on August 28th, at eleven o'clock AM. Suitable funeral services were held. Eight high priests acted as pall bearers. The speakers were President Seegmiller, Counselors Bean and Clark, and Elders Outzen, Westman and Peterson. All spoke of the many virtues of the deceased and of his unfeigned fidelity to the cause of truth and of his having given up everything for the gospel's sake. Elder Keeler offered the benediction.
In closing, I shall give two sentiments from William Morrison's own hand book, written November 14, 1868, as follows: "the counties of Sanpete and Sevier, their development, may they ever excel, like their streams, let their course be onward forever," and on November 18, 1868, as follows: "The counties of Sanpete and Sevier, like their streams, may their course be onward forever, with peace aplenty."
Lula Morrison Barr
Richfield, Utah
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