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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
William Morrison's Marriage Proposal Letter to Margaret Cruickshank
62 Virginia Street, Aberdeen
18th July 1842
My Dear Margaret,
Deeply sensible of my ineptitude for the task I have undertaken but still feeling it incumbent upon me to acknowledge in some way or other your goodness in making mention of me in your friend's favor, and farther trusting that your good sense will overlook all intromisions, I venture without further preliminary to proceed. Though Something like an apology seems necessary for thus imposing upon your good nature by troubling you with such a scroll from me, much cannot reasonably be expected from one in my capacity. Flattery is a most detestable thing, therefore in this case I wish to avoid it and speak exactly as I think, feeling myself highly influenced in your favour I cannot altogether refrain from opening my mind to you as if regardless of the consequences.
Whatever I think I expose fearlessly and boldly as a man ought, but still love is of a curious nature and dangerous to meddle with, as Baldy says in his solilogy "It's mour than Hell I canna beart to be see brunt wi love and dare na tell't". But thats a state your devoted servant could not submit to, for with me, whatevers in must come out. But the night is getting as dark as my subject and must postpone the conclusion of this till tomorrow, and retire to dream of your highly fascinating charms, curious and irregular are my ideas at present. So good night for the present, smiling at my own weakness but human nature is very subject to that failing when truly exposed it might become me much better to shed a tear at parting so formally, but Prudence forbids.
Good Morning Miss. I hope you are well today. I've had such sweet visions of futurity that things connected with the present had almost escaped my memory but still I find it true that I am alone, single, unmarried, unconnected as yet with any nearer or dearer than my mother, and consequently not the father of a small family, how long this state of things may continue, it completely puzzles my comprehension to determine, perhaps you can aid me in arriving at the conclusion of such a highly conjectural speculation.
I have never said a word about your visit to Glasgow, the commercial metropolis of Scotland. I hope you are enjoying yourself to the utmost. Forgive my uncommonly strange expressions as I expect none will ever see them but yourself, just done as much for our mutual diversion as anything. It does not become young people to be too serious about things. Nevertheless, in me anxiety prevails most predominantly for your welfare, and your return to Aberdeen. I hope therefore you will relieve my overburdened mind by complimenting me with a small memorial from your Ladyship. I will expect in it a reprimand for my impudence and lofty assumptions. No doubt you will think I have a good cheek. I cannot help it however. According to the nature of yours in return, if you will confer on me the favour shall my style either in writing or speaking be regulated in future. I should have said much more but you see it necessary for me to close so in full expectation of an answer to this I am,
Dearest Margaret
(Will I say)
Your Future Husband
Wm. Morrison
P.S. I have exercised familiarity in calling you Margaret as it is my best name for Dearest Sister. W.M.
Saturday, October 20, 2018
News Article re Death of Margaret F. C. Morrison
Church Worker Dead
Mrs. Margaret F. C. Morrison, Pioneer of Mt. Pleasant, Succumbs to Death.
(Special to The Herald-Republican.)
Mt. Pleasant, Jan. 12 - Mrs. Margaret F. C. Morrison died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ericksen yesterday morning. Mrs. Morrison was a pioneer of this city and had a host of friends here and throughout the state. She was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, June 5, 1823, where she married William Morrison, December 22, 1843. Then moving to Woolwich, Kent, England, she joined the Mormon Church and came to America with her husband in 1854, living in St. Louis two years.
At St. Louis they lost three children in one week from cholera.
In 1856 they came to Salt Lake. In 1858 they moved to Ephraim, where Mr. Morrison joined the soldiers who were sent out to meet Johnson's army. In 1859 they moved to Mt. Pleasant, being among the first families to settle here. May 11, 1868, Mrs. Morrison was called to preside over the Relief Society, being the first president of that society here. She held that position until May 11, 1908, making a total of forty years, thereby gaining the distinction of holding that office longer than anyone else in Sanpete county.
The funeral services will be held at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the South ward meeting house.
Salt Lake Herald article 1/13/1910
Mrs. Margaret F. C. Morrison, Pioneer of Mt. Pleasant, Succumbs to Death.
(Special to The Herald-Republican.)
Mt. Pleasant, Jan. 12 - Mrs. Margaret F. C. Morrison died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ericksen yesterday morning. Mrs. Morrison was a pioneer of this city and had a host of friends here and throughout the state. She was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, June 5, 1823, where she married William Morrison, December 22, 1843. Then moving to Woolwich, Kent, England, she joined the Mormon Church and came to America with her husband in 1854, living in St. Louis two years.
At St. Louis they lost three children in one week from cholera.
In 1856 they came to Salt Lake. In 1858 they moved to Ephraim, where Mr. Morrison joined the soldiers who were sent out to meet Johnson's army. In 1859 they moved to Mt. Pleasant, being among the first families to settle here. May 11, 1868, Mrs. Morrison was called to preside over the Relief Society, being the first president of that society here. She held that position until May 11, 1908, making a total of forty years, thereby gaining the distinction of holding that office longer than anyone else in Sanpete county.
The funeral services will be held at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the South ward meeting house.
Salt Lake Herald article 1/13/1910
William Morrison Journal (Feb. 1851 - Aug. 14, 1889)
12th. June, 1856 on board the steamer Arabia on her way up to Florence with a company of saints under the presidency of elder John Banks. [illegible] I wrote letters to father and mother Cruikshank and brother George, and desire to remember Welling soon. I have been appointed to preside over the lower part of the Arabia, and hold fellowship meetings morning and evening. Bro. Ellis is my counselor, Bros. Banks, Church and Harris are our presidents. [illegible] We left St. Louis Mon. 2nd. Inst
6th. July, 1856. Encamped at Shell Creek. We left Florence Thur. 26th. June, 1856.
Wood River, 16th. July, 1856. An accident occurred among the Danish saints which has detained us here 30 hours. The health of the camp is good. We had a buffalo bull run right through our train on the 14th inst. This was a great sight. On the same evening a general meeting of the camp was convened by Captn. [Canute] Peterson. We have morning and evening meetings where we enjoy the fellowship of the Holy Spirit - all is well. [illegible] My dear wife is astonishingly well and bears up [to] accomplish all the duties which devolve upon her [and] help[s] me often with the cattle and wagon.
14th. Sept. 1856. Comfortably situated in our wagon 83 miles from Salt Lake City, with the two yoke of cattle still alive although one of them has been sick since we left Green River. As they are the property of Capt. Adams who has been the means of my crossing the plains, and who returned back from Ft. Laramie, leaving me all the provisions and the wagon and teams [illegible] until we reach the city, together with a N.Y. charter oak stove on the way to be delivered to me free of charge. I am very desirous that they should live and sell at a goodly price. [illegible] shall take care of the cattle [illegible] not mine.
Thurs. 11th. Dec. 1856. Arrived at the City of the Great Salt Lake on the (20th) day of September 1856.
6th. July, 1856. Encamped at Shell Creek. We left Florence Thur. 26th. June, 1856.
Wood River, 16th. July, 1856. An accident occurred among the Danish saints which has detained us here 30 hours. The health of the camp is good. We had a buffalo bull run right through our train on the 14th inst. This was a great sight. On the same evening a general meeting of the camp was convened by Captn. [Canute] Peterson. We have morning and evening meetings where we enjoy the fellowship of the Holy Spirit - all is well. [illegible] My dear wife is astonishingly well and bears up [to] accomplish all the duties which devolve upon her [and] help[s] me often with the cattle and wagon.
14th. Sept. 1856. Comfortably situated in our wagon 83 miles from Salt Lake City, with the two yoke of cattle still alive although one of them has been sick since we left Green River. As they are the property of Capt. Adams who has been the means of my crossing the plains, and who returned back from Ft. Laramie, leaving me all the provisions and the wagon and teams [illegible] until we reach the city, together with a N.Y. charter oak stove on the way to be delivered to me free of charge. I am very desirous that they should live and sell at a goodly price. [illegible] shall take care of the cattle [illegible] not mine.
Thurs. 11th. Dec. 1856. Arrived at the City of the Great Salt Lake on the (20th) day of September 1856.
Trail Reminiscences (Excerpt) - Mary Margaret Farquhar Cruickshank
Morrison, Mary Margaret Farquhar Cruickshank, Reminiscences, 4-5. (Trail except transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.)
It would take too much time to enter into every detail that transpired during those intervals on our sad journey. Nevertheless in the spring of 1856 our faces still turning Zionward, we again commenced our journey from St. Louis, by way of Omaha, and from there crossing the plains by ox team. For six weeks we remained in camp at Omaha living in tents, waiting for the company to get ready. On the 26th of June, 1856 we commenced our journey across the plains. We were sixty wagons in all with Canute Petersen as Captain of our company. He was a wise and most efficient leader. During our journey our cattle stampeded five times. A young man from Denmark was run over and instantly killed, but otherwise there were no other accidents on the journey. On the 14th of July a herd of buffalo passed right through our camp. This surely was a great sight and as no accident occurred we were indeed very thankful for the preserving care which had been around us.
On the 23rd of September we arrived in Salt Lake City in good health and glad to meet many dear friends with whom we were acquainted before we left England.
It would take too much time to enter into every detail that transpired during those intervals on our sad journey. Nevertheless in the spring of 1856 our faces still turning Zionward, we again commenced our journey from St. Louis, by way of Omaha, and from there crossing the plains by ox team. For six weeks we remained in camp at Omaha living in tents, waiting for the company to get ready. On the 26th of June, 1856 we commenced our journey across the plains. We were sixty wagons in all with Canute Petersen as Captain of our company. He was a wise and most efficient leader. During our journey our cattle stampeded five times. A young man from Denmark was run over and instantly killed, but otherwise there were no other accidents on the journey. On the 14th of July a herd of buffalo passed right through our camp. This surely was a great sight and as no accident occurred we were indeed very thankful for the preserving care which had been around us.
On the 23rd of September we arrived in Salt Lake City in good health and glad to meet many dear friends with whom we were acquainted before we left England.
Short Bio of Elsie Morrison McKenzie (Sister of William Morrison)
Elsie was born in Scotland. There is a record of her christening on 10 Sep 1835. Not much is known of her early life, excepting the recollection of an elderly aunt who remembered her working in a match factory in Aberdeen as a young woman. Her marriage was recorded on 25 Jun 1856 at the Congregational Church in Inverury. She was 20 and was employed as a domestic servant. Her husband Donald was 19 and a gardener at Keithhall. One of the witnesses at their wedding in June of 1856 was George Skene, possibly a relation on her father's side. (George Skene was the name of her grandfather) Elsie's emigration to Australia was not without hardship.
She lost one child en route, and two others while living in a harsh environment. She gave birth to four more children in the Wairarapa area. She had a total of ten children. There is a birth record for a Georgina b. 13 April 1857 at Banchory, Devenick, Kincardine with parrents by the same name but there is no further record of this offspring. Elsie and her husband were true pioneers. They lived in the area of Kopuaranga and together cleared and established Myrtle Farm. Life continued to present challenges. Her husband Donald worked as a contractor and spent long periods away from home clearing a road through the Forty Mile Bush. Their sons may have been a little short on paternal attention. Elsie was rumored to have a still back in the native bush. She and her sister-in-law would disappear to tend to the home brew and come back a few days later feeling no pain.
It would seem that Elsie was very proud of her heritage. Our family was always aware of her connection to the Bruce clan and its place in Scottish history. Her grandfather and great grandfather had both been magistrates in Inverury. Her brother William had also become a prominent leader in the Mormon Church in Severn, Utah. Elsie died of a sudden stroke and bronchitis at age 70. She was separated from Donald at the time of her death.
She lost one child en route, and two others while living in a harsh environment. She gave birth to four more children in the Wairarapa area. She had a total of ten children. There is a birth record for a Georgina b. 13 April 1857 at Banchory, Devenick, Kincardine with parrents by the same name but there is no further record of this offspring. Elsie and her husband were true pioneers. They lived in the area of Kopuaranga and together cleared and established Myrtle Farm. Life continued to present challenges. Her husband Donald worked as a contractor and spent long periods away from home clearing a road through the Forty Mile Bush. Their sons may have been a little short on paternal attention. Elsie was rumored to have a still back in the native bush. She and her sister-in-law would disappear to tend to the home brew and come back a few days later feeling no pain.
It would seem that Elsie was very proud of her heritage. Our family was always aware of her connection to the Bruce clan and its place in Scottish history. Her grandfather and great grandfather had both been magistrates in Inverury. Her brother William had also become a prominent leader in the Mormon Church in Severn, Utah. Elsie died of a sudden stroke and bronchitis at age 70. She was separated from Donald at the time of her death.
Brief History of William Morrison by Lula Morrison Barr
A Brief History of William Morrison by Lula Morrison Barr
(Daughter of William & Caroline Christina Iverson Morrison)
(Daughter of William & Caroline Christina Iverson Morrison)
(This is a story my mom copied from her dad, my grandpa (Marvin J. Morrison) for our record books. I retyped it from that copy to make it so you can read it. Please enjoy. Melanie Ward)
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William Morrison was born in Inverury, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Sept. 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 descendant 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 brothers, 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 took as his second wife Carolina Christina Morrison, to whom reference was made above. He later also married Anna Marie Hansen, and became the father of twenty seven children. Later William moved to Mt. Pleasant when that town was settled.
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 took as his second wife Carolina Christina Morrison, to whom reference was made above. He later also married 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 the 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. Caroline Christine the mother of the writer, together with her two oldest children, James and Amanda located in Richfield. Maria settled at Clear Creek Canyon.
William 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 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 blessings of his brethren and fell 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 three miles farther to a place called Nine Mile. There he saw two indians who were armed. 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 someone 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 angor satin. The bed had black turned posters and the 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 fireplace 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 graveyard. 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 gentleman took their beds with them to spend the night in Richfield Cemetery, hoping for a peaceful nights rest. All went well 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 and down. Of course, my father and his companions left that peaceful place without investigation. 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 a 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 gentlewoman 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 he remembers that one fat hog sank and was drowned. He was six years old at the time and saw the things remembered from his seat in the wagon. Mother had 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 remembers the men shooting 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 good. Mother kept the children still, four this time, the youngest being Annie who was born at Mt. Pleasant. She put a stick across the door, to fool the Indians, who would not go near an empty house. One day, the baby cried when the Indians were near and they 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 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 new comers 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 Father replied, "we did not come her 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 28, 1889 at eleven o'clock a.m. Suitable funeral services were held. Eight high priests acted as pall bearers. The speakers were President Seegmiller, Counselors Bean and Clark, and Elder Outzen, Westman and Peterson. All spoke 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, may their course be onward forever, with peace a plenty."
Lula Morrison Barr
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Annie Marie Hansen Pioneer Record
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868
Hansen, Anna Marie
Birth Date: 21 Nov. 1846
Death Date: 2 Dec. 1904
Gender: Female
Age: 12
Company: Robert F. Neslen Company (1859)
Sources:
European Mission (Emigration records, Scandinavian Mission) 1852-1920
1954 Death Certificate of Robert Bruce Morrison
Son of William Morrison & Annie Marie Hansen Morrison
Cause of Death: Generalized Arteriosclerosis
Cause of Death: Generalized Arteriosclerosis
Saturday, October 6, 2018
A Brief History of My Mother Martha Marie Morrison Horne
By Florence Horne Tate
Born: April 20, 1863; Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah
Father: William Morrison
Mother: Anna Marie Hansen
Spouse: Joseph Smith Horne
Retyped by Trena Horne Dodge, Oct. 5, 2008
My mother is the daughter of William Morrison and Anna Maria Hansen. She was born in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah, April 20, 1863.
It was her privilege to be born into a family of three brothers and three sisters. Her parents lived in a long low adobe house. At this time Grandpa and two wives, one family living at one end of the house and our Grandma occupying the other end. They lived in perfect harmony, dividing their responsibilities according to their natural abilities. My Grandmother enjoyed cooking and house keeping in all its phases. Our other Grandmother was an excellent sewer; therefore she assumed this phase of their conjoint family life. There were ten children to sew for. There were no sewing machines, all stitching was done by hand. To keep ten children neatly dressed and properly fed under these prevailing circumstances, was indeed a challenge.
When Mother was four years old, she went to live with her Grandmother to learn the Danish Language. She never forgot it and many times it proved very useful to her.
One day she was permitted to visit the school with her older sister Tina. Someone was talking and the teacher thought it was Mother. He came down where she was sitting and gave her quite a whipping with a long ruler he had in his hand. That evening when her father came home, and the incident was related to him, he was quite indignant and said, "The Brute." However, many years later, our father and this man, H.P. Miller, were partners in the Undertaking Business in Richfield.
Mother's first date was with a fellow named Lorenzo Nielson. He took her to a party, and when it was over and they were going home they came within about a block of the house and Lorenzo said, "Well Martha, you can see the house from here." So he left her to go the rest of the way alone.
The only childhood picture we have of Mother is one taken with her sister Tina when they were just small girls. Their dresses were very fancy and quite in style at that time, but you should see their hair-do. It was just bushy all over their heads. But we wouldn't take anything for that funny little picture.
We know very little about her school days, except that they were very few. She was indeed self-taught. She always used good English and wrote with a clear neat hand.
In early days they went into the hills for grease-wood for soap making. She learned to make lovely soap and always saved her drippings of fat and all scraps of fat. She also learned the art of spinning and weaving. I well remember the old spinning wheel. Mother loaned it to the school for a play they were putting on and it was never returned.
In 1871 my Mother's family moved to Richfield. Their first home was a long house located on the corner of First North and Second West where Judge Chidester's home now stands.
In the early Spring of 1879, Mother went to Saint George with her parents and received her Endowments in the Saint George Temple. Sister Snow, wife of Erastus Snow, wanted to adopt Mother, but of course her parents would not permit it.
Joseph Smith Horne was living in Richfield and was a member of the First Territorial Legislature. Brother Horne would go by team and often stopped at the home of William Morrison. Upon one occasion Grandpa Morrison said, Well Joseph, I see you have taken quite a liking to our daughter Martha." And Father said, "Yes, I think she is a wonderful girl." So Grandpa said, "Well, you can have her if you want her," and father took her. Of course it was with her whole-hearted consent. They were married in the Endowment House February 14, 1880 (by Joseph Fielding Smith). Father took his young bride of 17 (he was almost 38; born 14 May 1842) to meet his mother, M(ary) Isabella (Hales) Horne. Grandmother said, "Joseph how could you do it, she is but a mere slip of a girl."
Upon one occasion she was visiting her folks in Mount Pleasant. She was invited to a lovely party. Samuel Allen, later Dr. Allen, escorted her home, little realizing she was a married woman.
Mother owned a large iron kettle in which she made all her laundry soap. I never remember her buying a bar of laundry soap. Her soap was lovely white soap. And, too, Mother always washed and carded the wool for all her quilt making. This was quite often as her family grew and she so often entertained many friends and relatives. We often had straw ticks and as a child I was amused to hear and feel the crunching of the new straw.
The first 18 months of Mother's married life, she lived with Father's first wife. Her first child was born there. This must have been a trial for her, but she never complained. To live in polygamy would be hard, but to live in the same house with his first wife and she was 41 years old than Mother, must have been a trial indeed.
My mother, as many mothers, had her trials and her joys, but God's choicest blessings are often poured out to those who are sorely tried. Her home was always an open house and everyone was made welcome. Mother's entire life was a life of sacrifice and service.
(In 1889, Joseph Smith Horne was indicted for polygamy.) Some busy-bodied ruthless men could not rest until they made a law that polygamist men could not live with their plural wives. After the Manifesto, that ruling was abandoned. At the time of the polygamist rage, many men went into hiding, but sooner or later were found, and sentenced to serve a term in the State Penitentiary. Father served 18 months. Upon one occasion, Mother came to Salt Lake and went to the Pen to see Father, but the guard would not allow her to see him. "Have you no mercy? This little woman has traveled over 300 miles to see her husband. Do you have the heart to turn her away?" The guard softened and allowed Mother to visit with Father.
In 1833, Mother's first stove was still in use in the home of Brig Snadberg.
Mother was a very ambitious woman. Often she tried her skill in various ways to earn a little extra money to buy things she needed in her home. She tried selling different wares. She made friends but not much money. She didn't give up. Her ambition was as strong as ever. She soon started taking boarders. This brought many people of various walks of life to our home, school teachers, music teachers, theatrical companies, etc. Some were noted actors and actresses. One day a sick man came to her. She hesitated because she had so recently recovered from Typhoid Fever. But her sympathies went out to the man and she took him in.
She contracted his disease and in 1910 she was operated on for Tubercular Peritonitis. Father put up a tent and Mother slept outdoors for one year. Mother paid $500.00 of her hospital and doctor bill by supplying them with chicken and turkeys. Father paid some money to the nurse and to apply on her room.
Pig killing was quite an event at our home. Tom Larsen would come and put up his scaffold, kill the pig, clean and dress it and hang it up until evening. Then he came and cut it up. The shoulders and hams were cured and smoked. We always saved our corn cobs to smoke the meat with. Cooking and grinding the head cheese, grinding and patting the sausages, pickling the pigs' feet - my what a busy time and what a procedure this was, but how nice it was to have for the winter.
Mother was a very good cook. It seemed to come so natural to her. Mother often gleaned in the field to get wheat for her chickens.
We used to dry apples, plums and corn on the roof of our house. On one occasion when we were drying apples, our little sister Leona wanted to help. The knife she was using slipped and cut across the pupil of her eye. She carried that scar all the rest of her life.
We often dried corn, apples and plums on the low slanting roof of the house. Sometimes the chickens would fly up and get the corn. We children, not too different from other children, would climb upon the house and peck away with our hands to sound like the chickens. Mother would come rushing out with the broom thinking it was the chickens. How we would jump and run to avoid a swish of the broom.
When Mother's sixth child was born it cost $75.00. Three dollars each was all the other five children had cost. This was a fine from UNCLE SAM.
Grandmother Morrison sold her home in Richfield and came to Salt Lake where she did Temple work for a while, visited with her family and friends (then) returned to Richfield and lived with Mother until she died. The latter part of her life she became an invalid and was indeed a (in need of) great care. Mother was expecting a baby any day. Florence had the Small Pox. We were quarantined and it was impossible to get help. Late the next evening Grandmother passed away. A few hours later Mother's baby was born. Because of conditions, we had a death, a birth and a funeral all in one day. I shall never forget that experience.
Mother had opened her home to a dear old German lady. She was cleaning her yard when a gush of wind came and it caused her to fall and break her hip. She had no place to go, so in the usual goodness of Mother's heart, she took her in and she lived with us till she died.
Wood hauling in the fall was another eventful time. The boys' lunches were tied in a Germade sack, fastened to the wood rack, a small keg of water and a sharp ax and they were off. Mother's anxiety for the safety of her sons was as hard on her as the falling of the logs was to the boys. A prayer of gratitude and thankfulness welcomed her sons on their safe return with their big loads of wood.
Father owned some hay-land and what a sight it was to see those big loads of hay pull into the yard; be unloaded into the barn. Sometimes large stacks of hay would be stacked on the outside of the barn.
Up until now, there was but one ward in Richfield. Now three wards were to be established. There was not a suitable place to build a chapel for the second ward, so, our Mother, the self-sacrificing soul that she was, offered a part of her lot to be used as a dwelling and the corner could be used to build the chapel on. Abe Hansen, a neighbor, bought another portion of Mother's lot, leaving her two thirds acre of her original full acre.
There is one phase of Mother's life I have not mentioned, but since it is so great and full of rich living, I must include it in her history.
Mother was chosen to be the First Counselor to the first Primary organized in Richfield. Soon the ward was divided and she was made Second Counselor for 1 1/2 years. Then she was made President and acted as such for five years and nine months.
In 1894, Mother was chosen Stake Treasurer of Sevier Stake M.I.A. (Mutual Improvement Association). On May 8, she was set apart as Second Counselor to the Stake President of M.I.A. In October 1895, she was set apart and sustained as President of Sevier Stake M.I.A. with Emily Payne as First Counselor and Anna C. Orrock as Second Counselor. One year later, Sister Payne was released and Martha Crosby took her place.
At a Stake Conference held in 1896, we were favored with a visit from Emma Goddard and Rosa Wallace of the General Board. The following December, at a Quarterly Conference of the Y.W.M.I.A. and Y.M.M.I.A., Sister Gates was blessed with the Gift of Tongues, also the Interpretation of Tongues. An officers meeting was held at our home, the evening before the conference was to convene. I well remember this night. Aunt Susa Gates, as we all called her, spoke in Tongues at this meeting.
In July 1898, a conjoint officers meeting was to be held to decide where to hold the next conference. It was decided to hold it at Fish Lake. Committees to act in making all arrangements for this conference were appointed. Sevier and Wayne Stake met, appointed their committees and all agreed the first meeting would be held in the afternoon at 2 o'clock. A large bowery was constructed for this occasion. Sisters Ruth May Fox, Aggie Campbell and Edna Dyer were the visitors for the Y.W.M.I.A. and Junius F. Wells and George H. Brimhall were the General Board members for the Young Men -- also T.S. Ashworth, President William H. Seegmiller and Joseph S. Horne of Sevier Stake. President E. W. Robinson and Patriarch E. H. Blackburn of Wayne Stake were present. A glorious time was had. Father drove the dead-man's wagon (as we called it) and took the visiting Sisters to Fish Lake.
At a later conference, Sister Augusta W. Grant and Sarah Addington were there representing the General Board.
Sister Martha Crosby was moving away and was released and Bertha Thurber was chosen to take her place.
In 1910, another glorious conference of the Y.W.M.I.A. and Y.M.M.I.A. was held. Apostle John Henry Smith and Brother Shudell were there to represent the General Board. Sisters Emma Goddard and Ruth May Fox were the lady visitors. Two conferences were held, one at Salina and one at Elsinora. At this time Sister Alveretta Olsen was called to the Board.
Early in the year of 1901 a big effort was made to secure means to assist in the erection of a Women's State House. Success crowned their efforts.
Sister Martha Horne and her workers were faithful during their entire term of office. It would take a volume to tell of their efforts and accomplishments. One of their last deeds of their long and useful term was to plan a big social to be held September 7, 1901, in the evening before a big conjoint conference, but because of the national calamity that occurred, in the assassination of President William McKinley, their plans were not carried out.
Mother's circumstances were such that she found it to hand in her resignation. With deep regret at losing her and her counselors, Bertha Thurber and Anna C. Orrock, her resignation was accepted.
Mother and Father worked in the Manti Temple one year and later came to Salt Lake and worked in the Salt Lake Temple for two years.
Out of a family of 15 children (on Father's side), Father and Mother were the only ones who lived to celebrate their Golden Wedding. This celebration took place at the home of their daughter Margaret Horne Kienke.
Father bought a little house for Mother, and it was her home as long as she lived. There were two rooms, with a closed porch. Several years late, there were two rooms added in the front. Years later the back part was torn down and remodeled as it now stands.
Mother died (January 16, 1944) at the age of 80.
May I, her daughter, add -- through all these activities and early trials and hardships, she gave birth to four sons and five daughters.
We are indeed grateful to our Father for our WONDERFUL MOTHER.
Posted by Ann Sorensen at 12:55 p.m.
Born: April 20, 1863; Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah
Father: William Morrison
Mother: Anna Marie Hansen
Spouse: Joseph Smith Horne
Retyped by Trena Horne Dodge, Oct. 5, 2008
My mother is the daughter of William Morrison and Anna Maria Hansen. She was born in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah, April 20, 1863.
It was her privilege to be born into a family of three brothers and three sisters. Her parents lived in a long low adobe house. At this time Grandpa and two wives, one family living at one end of the house and our Grandma occupying the other end. They lived in perfect harmony, dividing their responsibilities according to their natural abilities. My Grandmother enjoyed cooking and house keeping in all its phases. Our other Grandmother was an excellent sewer; therefore she assumed this phase of their conjoint family life. There were ten children to sew for. There were no sewing machines, all stitching was done by hand. To keep ten children neatly dressed and properly fed under these prevailing circumstances, was indeed a challenge.
When Mother was four years old, she went to live with her Grandmother to learn the Danish Language. She never forgot it and many times it proved very useful to her.
One day she was permitted to visit the school with her older sister Tina. Someone was talking and the teacher thought it was Mother. He came down where she was sitting and gave her quite a whipping with a long ruler he had in his hand. That evening when her father came home, and the incident was related to him, he was quite indignant and said, "The Brute." However, many years later, our father and this man, H.P. Miller, were partners in the Undertaking Business in Richfield.
Mother's first date was with a fellow named Lorenzo Nielson. He took her to a party, and when it was over and they were going home they came within about a block of the house and Lorenzo said, "Well Martha, you can see the house from here." So he left her to go the rest of the way alone.
The only childhood picture we have of Mother is one taken with her sister Tina when they were just small girls. Their dresses were very fancy and quite in style at that time, but you should see their hair-do. It was just bushy all over their heads. But we wouldn't take anything for that funny little picture.
We know very little about her school days, except that they were very few. She was indeed self-taught. She always used good English and wrote with a clear neat hand.
In early days they went into the hills for grease-wood for soap making. She learned to make lovely soap and always saved her drippings of fat and all scraps of fat. She also learned the art of spinning and weaving. I well remember the old spinning wheel. Mother loaned it to the school for a play they were putting on and it was never returned.
In 1871 my Mother's family moved to Richfield. Their first home was a long house located on the corner of First North and Second West where Judge Chidester's home now stands.
In the early Spring of 1879, Mother went to Saint George with her parents and received her Endowments in the Saint George Temple. Sister Snow, wife of Erastus Snow, wanted to adopt Mother, but of course her parents would not permit it.
Joseph Smith Horne was living in Richfield and was a member of the First Territorial Legislature. Brother Horne would go by team and often stopped at the home of William Morrison. Upon one occasion Grandpa Morrison said, Well Joseph, I see you have taken quite a liking to our daughter Martha." And Father said, "Yes, I think she is a wonderful girl." So Grandpa said, "Well, you can have her if you want her," and father took her. Of course it was with her whole-hearted consent. They were married in the Endowment House February 14, 1880 (by Joseph Fielding Smith). Father took his young bride of 17 (he was almost 38; born 14 May 1842) to meet his mother, M(ary) Isabella (Hales) Horne. Grandmother said, "Joseph how could you do it, she is but a mere slip of a girl."
Upon one occasion she was visiting her folks in Mount Pleasant. She was invited to a lovely party. Samuel Allen, later Dr. Allen, escorted her home, little realizing she was a married woman.
Mother owned a large iron kettle in which she made all her laundry soap. I never remember her buying a bar of laundry soap. Her soap was lovely white soap. And, too, Mother always washed and carded the wool for all her quilt making. This was quite often as her family grew and she so often entertained many friends and relatives. We often had straw ticks and as a child I was amused to hear and feel the crunching of the new straw.
The first 18 months of Mother's married life, she lived with Father's first wife. Her first child was born there. This must have been a trial for her, but she never complained. To live in polygamy would be hard, but to live in the same house with his first wife and she was 41 years old than Mother, must have been a trial indeed.
My mother, as many mothers, had her trials and her joys, but God's choicest blessings are often poured out to those who are sorely tried. Her home was always an open house and everyone was made welcome. Mother's entire life was a life of sacrifice and service.
(In 1889, Joseph Smith Horne was indicted for polygamy.) Some busy-bodied ruthless men could not rest until they made a law that polygamist men could not live with their plural wives. After the Manifesto, that ruling was abandoned. At the time of the polygamist rage, many men went into hiding, but sooner or later were found, and sentenced to serve a term in the State Penitentiary. Father served 18 months. Upon one occasion, Mother came to Salt Lake and went to the Pen to see Father, but the guard would not allow her to see him. "Have you no mercy? This little woman has traveled over 300 miles to see her husband. Do you have the heart to turn her away?" The guard softened and allowed Mother to visit with Father.
In 1833, Mother's first stove was still in use in the home of Brig Snadberg.
Mother was a very ambitious woman. Often she tried her skill in various ways to earn a little extra money to buy things she needed in her home. She tried selling different wares. She made friends but not much money. She didn't give up. Her ambition was as strong as ever. She soon started taking boarders. This brought many people of various walks of life to our home, school teachers, music teachers, theatrical companies, etc. Some were noted actors and actresses. One day a sick man came to her. She hesitated because she had so recently recovered from Typhoid Fever. But her sympathies went out to the man and she took him in.
She contracted his disease and in 1910 she was operated on for Tubercular Peritonitis. Father put up a tent and Mother slept outdoors for one year. Mother paid $500.00 of her hospital and doctor bill by supplying them with chicken and turkeys. Father paid some money to the nurse and to apply on her room.
Pig killing was quite an event at our home. Tom Larsen would come and put up his scaffold, kill the pig, clean and dress it and hang it up until evening. Then he came and cut it up. The shoulders and hams were cured and smoked. We always saved our corn cobs to smoke the meat with. Cooking and grinding the head cheese, grinding and patting the sausages, pickling the pigs' feet - my what a busy time and what a procedure this was, but how nice it was to have for the winter.
Mother was a very good cook. It seemed to come so natural to her. Mother often gleaned in the field to get wheat for her chickens.
We used to dry apples, plums and corn on the roof of our house. On one occasion when we were drying apples, our little sister Leona wanted to help. The knife she was using slipped and cut across the pupil of her eye. She carried that scar all the rest of her life.
We often dried corn, apples and plums on the low slanting roof of the house. Sometimes the chickens would fly up and get the corn. We children, not too different from other children, would climb upon the house and peck away with our hands to sound like the chickens. Mother would come rushing out with the broom thinking it was the chickens. How we would jump and run to avoid a swish of the broom.
When Mother's sixth child was born it cost $75.00. Three dollars each was all the other five children had cost. This was a fine from UNCLE SAM.
Grandmother Morrison sold her home in Richfield and came to Salt Lake where she did Temple work for a while, visited with her family and friends (then) returned to Richfield and lived with Mother until she died. The latter part of her life she became an invalid and was indeed a (in need of) great care. Mother was expecting a baby any day. Florence had the Small Pox. We were quarantined and it was impossible to get help. Late the next evening Grandmother passed away. A few hours later Mother's baby was born. Because of conditions, we had a death, a birth and a funeral all in one day. I shall never forget that experience.
Mother had opened her home to a dear old German lady. She was cleaning her yard when a gush of wind came and it caused her to fall and break her hip. She had no place to go, so in the usual goodness of Mother's heart, she took her in and she lived with us till she died.
Wood hauling in the fall was another eventful time. The boys' lunches were tied in a Germade sack, fastened to the wood rack, a small keg of water and a sharp ax and they were off. Mother's anxiety for the safety of her sons was as hard on her as the falling of the logs was to the boys. A prayer of gratitude and thankfulness welcomed her sons on their safe return with their big loads of wood.
Father owned some hay-land and what a sight it was to see those big loads of hay pull into the yard; be unloaded into the barn. Sometimes large stacks of hay would be stacked on the outside of the barn.
Up until now, there was but one ward in Richfield. Now three wards were to be established. There was not a suitable place to build a chapel for the second ward, so, our Mother, the self-sacrificing soul that she was, offered a part of her lot to be used as a dwelling and the corner could be used to build the chapel on. Abe Hansen, a neighbor, bought another portion of Mother's lot, leaving her two thirds acre of her original full acre.
There is one phase of Mother's life I have not mentioned, but since it is so great and full of rich living, I must include it in her history.
Mother was chosen to be the First Counselor to the first Primary organized in Richfield. Soon the ward was divided and she was made Second Counselor for 1 1/2 years. Then she was made President and acted as such for five years and nine months.
In 1894, Mother was chosen Stake Treasurer of Sevier Stake M.I.A. (Mutual Improvement Association). On May 8, she was set apart as Second Counselor to the Stake President of M.I.A. In October 1895, she was set apart and sustained as President of Sevier Stake M.I.A. with Emily Payne as First Counselor and Anna C. Orrock as Second Counselor. One year later, Sister Payne was released and Martha Crosby took her place.
At a Stake Conference held in 1896, we were favored with a visit from Emma Goddard and Rosa Wallace of the General Board. The following December, at a Quarterly Conference of the Y.W.M.I.A. and Y.M.M.I.A., Sister Gates was blessed with the Gift of Tongues, also the Interpretation of Tongues. An officers meeting was held at our home, the evening before the conference was to convene. I well remember this night. Aunt Susa Gates, as we all called her, spoke in Tongues at this meeting.
In July 1898, a conjoint officers meeting was to be held to decide where to hold the next conference. It was decided to hold it at Fish Lake. Committees to act in making all arrangements for this conference were appointed. Sevier and Wayne Stake met, appointed their committees and all agreed the first meeting would be held in the afternoon at 2 o'clock. A large bowery was constructed for this occasion. Sisters Ruth May Fox, Aggie Campbell and Edna Dyer were the visitors for the Y.W.M.I.A. and Junius F. Wells and George H. Brimhall were the General Board members for the Young Men -- also T.S. Ashworth, President William H. Seegmiller and Joseph S. Horne of Sevier Stake. President E. W. Robinson and Patriarch E. H. Blackburn of Wayne Stake were present. A glorious time was had. Father drove the dead-man's wagon (as we called it) and took the visiting Sisters to Fish Lake.
At a later conference, Sister Augusta W. Grant and Sarah Addington were there representing the General Board.
Sister Martha Crosby was moving away and was released and Bertha Thurber was chosen to take her place.
In 1910, another glorious conference of the Y.W.M.I.A. and Y.M.M.I.A. was held. Apostle John Henry Smith and Brother Shudell were there to represent the General Board. Sisters Emma Goddard and Ruth May Fox were the lady visitors. Two conferences were held, one at Salina and one at Elsinora. At this time Sister Alveretta Olsen was called to the Board.
Early in the year of 1901 a big effort was made to secure means to assist in the erection of a Women's State House. Success crowned their efforts.
Sister Martha Horne and her workers were faithful during their entire term of office. It would take a volume to tell of their efforts and accomplishments. One of their last deeds of their long and useful term was to plan a big social to be held September 7, 1901, in the evening before a big conjoint conference, but because of the national calamity that occurred, in the assassination of President William McKinley, their plans were not carried out.
Mother's circumstances were such that she found it to hand in her resignation. With deep regret at losing her and her counselors, Bertha Thurber and Anna C. Orrock, her resignation was accepted.
Mother and Father worked in the Manti Temple one year and later came to Salt Lake and worked in the Salt Lake Temple for two years.
Out of a family of 15 children (on Father's side), Father and Mother were the only ones who lived to celebrate their Golden Wedding. This celebration took place at the home of their daughter Margaret Horne Kienke.
Father bought a little house for Mother, and it was her home as long as she lived. There were two rooms, with a closed porch. Several years late, there were two rooms added in the front. Years later the back part was torn down and remodeled as it now stands.
Mother died (January 16, 1944) at the age of 80.
May I, her daughter, add -- through all these activities and early trials and hardships, she gave birth to four sons and five daughters.
We are indeed grateful to our Father for our WONDERFUL MOTHER.
Posted by Ann Sorensen at 12:55 p.m.
Martha Maria Morrison - Find-a-Grave Bio
Birth: Apr. 20, 1863
Mountain Pleasant
Sanpete County
Death: Jan. 16, 1944
Richfield
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Richfield - Funeral services for Mrs. Martha M. Horne, 80, widow of Joseph S. Horne, who died at the family home Sunday at 6 p.m. of causes incident to age, will be conducted Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Richfield Second LDS ward. Interment will be in the Richfield Cemetery.
Mrs. Horne was born April 20, 1863 at Mt. Pleasant, the daughter of William G. and Annie M. Morrison. She came to Richfield with her parents when the white settlers were driven out of Sevier County during the Indian raids.
She married Joseph S. Horne in the old Salt Lake Endowment House February 14, 1880.
Survivors, in addition to her husband, include nine sons and daughters; Mrs. A.S. Kienke, William R. Horne and Mrs. Edwin F. Tate, all of Salt Lake City; Mrs. J.W. Parks and Mrs. Orson Crouch, both of Richfield; A.S. Horne, Ogden; Owen W. Horne, Kaysville; Mrs. M. H. Workman, Delta; and Karl M. Horne, Los Angeles; eight brothers and sisters, W. G. C. Morrison, Monroe; Charles H. Morrison and Robert B. Morrison, both of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Mary Ann Drake, St. George; Mrs. Al Alkire and W. W. Morrison, Delta, and Mrs. Lulu Barr, Richfield; 44 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Salt Lake Telegram
18 January 1944
Family links:
Parents:
William Morrison (1820-1889)
Annie Marie Hansen Morrison (1846-1904)
Spouse:
Joseph Smith Horne (1842-1937)
Children:
Mary Margaret Horne Kienke (1881-1962)
William Roy Horne (1883-1950)
Clara Ella Horne Parks (1885-1983)
Florence Amelia Morrison Horne Tate (1887-1972)
Aaron Smith Horne (1896-1964)
Martha Leona Horne Crouch (1898-1955)
Edna Horne Workman (1900-1974)
Owen Woodruff Horne (1903-1987)
Siblings:
William George Cruickshank Morrison (1856-1945)**
James Bruce Morrison (1860-1941)**
Charles Henry Morrison (1867-1949)
Robert Bruce Morrison (1868-1954)
Mary Ann Morrison Drake (1874-1877)
Cosmelia Morrison (1878-1879)
Arthur William Morrison (1881-1938)
Isabella Morrison Cushing (1883-1942)
**Noted on Find-a-Grave as half-sibling
Burial: Richfield City Cemetery, Plot A.19.01.07
Maintained by Enid Jamison / Originally Created by: Utah State Historical Society
Find a Grave Memorial #107489
Mountain Pleasant
Sanpete County
Death: Jan. 16, 1944
Richfield
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Richfield - Funeral services for Mrs. Martha M. Horne, 80, widow of Joseph S. Horne, who died at the family home Sunday at 6 p.m. of causes incident to age, will be conducted Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Richfield Second LDS ward. Interment will be in the Richfield Cemetery.
Mrs. Horne was born April 20, 1863 at Mt. Pleasant, the daughter of William G. and Annie M. Morrison. She came to Richfield with her parents when the white settlers were driven out of Sevier County during the Indian raids.
She married Joseph S. Horne in the old Salt Lake Endowment House February 14, 1880.
Survivors, in addition to her husband, include nine sons and daughters; Mrs. A.S. Kienke, William R. Horne and Mrs. Edwin F. Tate, all of Salt Lake City; Mrs. J.W. Parks and Mrs. Orson Crouch, both of Richfield; A.S. Horne, Ogden; Owen W. Horne, Kaysville; Mrs. M. H. Workman, Delta; and Karl M. Horne, Los Angeles; eight brothers and sisters, W. G. C. Morrison, Monroe; Charles H. Morrison and Robert B. Morrison, both of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Mary Ann Drake, St. George; Mrs. Al Alkire and W. W. Morrison, Delta, and Mrs. Lulu Barr, Richfield; 44 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Salt Lake Telegram
18 January 1944
Family links:
Parents:
William Morrison (1820-1889)
Annie Marie Hansen Morrison (1846-1904)
Spouse:
Joseph Smith Horne (1842-1937)
Children:
Mary Margaret Horne Kienke (1881-1962)
William Roy Horne (1883-1950)
Clara Ella Horne Parks (1885-1983)
Florence Amelia Morrison Horne Tate (1887-1972)
Aaron Smith Horne (1896-1964)
Martha Leona Horne Crouch (1898-1955)
Edna Horne Workman (1900-1974)
Owen Woodruff Horne (1903-1987)
Siblings:
William George Cruickshank Morrison (1856-1945)**
James Bruce Morrison (1860-1941)**
Charles Henry Morrison (1867-1949)
Robert Bruce Morrison (1868-1954)
Mary Ann Morrison Drake (1874-1877)
Cosmelia Morrison (1878-1879)
Arthur William Morrison (1881-1938)
Isabella Morrison Cushing (1883-1942)
**Noted on Find-a-Grave as half-sibling
Burial: Richfield City Cemetery, Plot A.19.01.07
Maintained by Enid Jamison / Originally Created by: Utah State Historical Society
Find a Grave Memorial #107489
Thursday, October 4, 2018
1949 Military Death Certificate for Charles Henry Morrison
Notes Parents as William Morrison (of Scotland) and Annie Maria Hansen (of Denmark), and wife Isabelle Dunn Morrison
1880 U.S. Federal Census - William Morrison & Caroline Christine Iverson & Kids
Listed here as "John Morrison" this is William Morrison (59) & 2nd wife Caroline Christine (38)
Kids: James B. (19), Amanda (15), Alexander (13), Annie C. (11), George C. (8) and Walter W. (6)
1870 U.S. Federal Census - William Morrison Family in Mt. Pleasant
William Morrison (50) (family is misidentified as "Marsden"), Margaret (47), William S. (13, this is likely William George), Wilhelmina (11), Clementina (7)
Wife: Carolina C. (28), James B. (9), Amanda (5), Alexander (3), Anna E. (1)
Wife: Annie M. (23), Martha (7), Charles (3) and Robert B. (1)
Year: 1870; Census Place: Mount Pleasant Ward 4, Sanpete, Utah Territory; Roll: M593_1612; Page: 79B; Image: 163; Family History Library Film: 553111
Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record
Wife: Carolina C. (28), James B. (9), Amanda (5), Alexander (3), Anna E. (1)
Wife: Annie M. (23), Martha (7), Charles (3) and Robert B. (1)
Year: 1870; Census Place: Mount Pleasant Ward 4, Sanpete, Utah Territory; Roll: M593_1612; Page: 79B; Image: 163; Family History Library Film: 553111
Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record
1889 William Morrison Burial Rcd
William Morrison
Rank: Sgt.
Organization: Capt. Nelson Higgins Co.
Period of Service: Blackhawk War
Date of Enlistment: 5 Jun 1865
Date of Discharge: 12 Nov 1865
Date of Birth: 7 Sep 1820 / Scotland
Date of Death: 28 Aug 1889 / Sevier County, Utah
Place of Burial: Richfield / County: Sevier Co.
Cemetery: City / Plot Location: Pl A Bl 7 L 4
Saturday, September 29, 2018
History of William Morrison (1820-1889) by Anne Morrison Kropf
In Inverurie, Aberdeen, Scotland on September 7, 1820, William Morrison was born to George Charles Morrison (1794-1857) and Mary Ann Bruce (1797-1877). He was the first born son of eight children, having three sisters and 4 brothers: Margaret (1822-), Mary (1824-1887), James (1827-1901), Anthony (1829-), Charles (1830-), Elsie (abt. 1831-), George (1838-1918).
Arthur William Morrison, William's son and 25th child, having been born in a polygamist family, sheds some light on his father's early years as told to him by William's first wife, Mary Margaret Fahrquar Cruickshank whom Arthur called Grandma. (The quotation marks in two different places are Arthur's quotes.)
"William, born to a well-to-do Scottish family, was given every opportunity for education and development that could make of him an influential, prominent and successful man. His parents were religious and it was their wish that he would become a minister. They sent him to a school that could prepare him for that purpose. He was well trained in learning the scriptures and knew them very well. In his honesty of soul and purpose of life he saw that the truths contained in the scriptures did not coincide nor agree in many instances with the practices and teachings of the church and they were not teaching plain and simple truths as they are contained in the Bible. He declined to follow the church which taught doctrines not in harmony with the Bible in teaching such man-made doctrines. He thought he would like to go to sea and become a sailor.
His parents were opposed to this so a compromise developed wherein William decided to become a shipwright. In due time he completed his apprenticeship and became a full-fledged Shipwright (ship builder) where he must have excelled in his workmanship as he was soon advanced to a directing position.
On December 22, 1843, William married Mary Margaret Fahrquar Cruickshank at the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland."
In the spring of 1844, William received a governmental appointment in Her Majesties Dockyard, Shermess, Kent, England, making it necessary for them to move from Scotland. On October 31, 1844, Margaret gave birth to a son whom they named, Anthony Bruce Morrison. He was the light and sunshine of their happy home. Through an illness that afflicted both William and Margaret, they applied for and received a transfer to Woolwich, Kent, England. They spent a few happy years there.
In the summer of 1848, Margaret and their son, Anthony, took a trip to the home of her childhood, Aberdeen, Scotland, to visit family and friends. About 6 weeks later on September 25th, she gave birth to a second son, who was named, Andrew Cruickshank Morrison. A month later their son, Anthony, died from scarlet fever and was buried on the 31st of October in Aberdeen, Scotland.
"While the family was away on a visit with Margaret's family in Scotland, William chanced to meet missionaries from America bringing a gospel message testifying of a new religion founded on revelations from God to the Prophet Joseph Smith and taught glorious truths. William's knowledge of the scriptures became very useful to him for he saw a complete harmony between the scriptures and the new revelations the missionaries taught. It was so plain to him that he readily acknowledged it as what he had been looking for. He accepted their message and embraced the truth. He happily wrote to Margaret of his complete joy and gratitude for this great message of truth and the new light that had come to him. Margaret's reply to this startling message was agreeable and brought to her joy in his satisfaction of it, and expressed her to be baptized. She waited until midwinter when the Elders were holding a baptismal service in the River Thames. It was frozen over with solid ice and had to be cut through for that purpose. At this time, Margaret was suffering from an intense sick headache to which she had been inflicted at times for several years.
Suffering as she was on this cold winter night, William entered the home and admonished her to be baptized with this company in this icy water. She said, "Why, William, what do you mean to ask me to go out in this terribly cold weather and be baptized in that ice cold water, and being sick as I am it might mean my death." He answered with great fervor and earnestness, "Margaret, if you will go and be baptized at this time and with this company, I promise you in the name of the Lord that you will never be troubled with this sickness and affliction again for as long as you live." Then she answered, "All right, William, if that is the way you feel about it, I will be baptized. It was reported that no signs of the sickness were manifested thereafter."
Two years later, while visiting her family in Scotland, their second son, Andrew, died of whooping cough on July 24, 1850. On September 16, 1850, Sarah Allen Morrison was born. This all happened when she was visiting her parents in Aberdeen. Returning to their home in England, it was their desire to start planning to gather with the Saints in Zion. Another daughter, Mary Isabella Cruickshank Morrison was born on January 16, 1853, in Woolwich, Kent, England.
William held many positions in the Church, including President of both the Bromley and the Welling Branches in England. He was serving in the Welling Branch when he and his family set sail for America on April 4, 1854, with 220 other Saints on the American clipper ship, "Germanicus". They arrived in New Orleans, and then journeyed up the Mississippi River to St. Louis where they lived for two years preparing for their trip across the plains.
In a cholera outbreak in St. Louis, they lost their third and fourth children, Mary on July 23, 1854, and Sarah on July 28, 1854. In St. Louis their fifth child, Mary Margaret Morrison was born on January 3, 1855, and died on November 8, 1855. Despite these tragic losses, William and Margaret always maintained a positive outlook and a determination to gather with the Saints in Zion.
On the 26th of June, 1856, they began their journey across the plains in a group with 60 wagons led by Captain Canute Petersen, a wise and efficient leader. With the experiences of the cattle stampeding 5 times and a herd of buffalo passing through their camp they finally arrived safely in Salt Lake City on December 23, 1856, in good health and happy to meet dear friends that they had known in England.
They purchased a home in Salt Lake City and William found work supervising a saw-mill that was under construction in Centerville, Davis County (Utah). On December 9, 1856, Margaret once again gave birth to a son they named William George Cruickshank Morrison and they felt the blessings of the Lord in giving them another child. They received their endowments and sealing in The Endowment House in Salt Lake City on March 13, 1857, obtaining the goal they had desired in coming to Zion.
On March 7, 1858, William married a second wife, Lucy Etherington with President Brigham Young officiating. It was a great trial for Margaret, but her faith was strong and she was willing to sacrifice her feelings for righteousness sake. William and Margaret were happy to have the privilege of practicing the law of plural marriage, it being a religious principle to which both were converted. During the same month, William was called to serve with the Utah Militia, and sent out to intercept the U.S. troops under General Sidney Johnston who were on their way to put down the "Mormon Rebellion" of 1857-1858.
In his absence, everyone was called to evacuate Salt Lake City and move south. Margaret with their son, William and her husband's second wife, Lucy, left for their journey with only their clothes and bedding and traveled to Fort Ephraim feeling that was where the Lord wanted her to go. When William was released he found his family had gone south with those who had evacuated Salt Lake City. In searching for them, he was asking questions as he traveled southward. He finally found them at Fort Ephraim. It was then that he learned that his wife, Lucy, had deserted the family.
On March 11, 1859, Margaret gave birth to a daughter naming her Williamina Henrietta Morrison. It was during the springtime that they decided to organize a new settlement, so Mt. Pleasant, Utah (formerly Fort Hambleton at that time) was organized. As William was one of the first settlers, he was appointed clerk, postmaster, assessor and collector of the settlement. With the consent of Margaret, on July 11, 1859, William took another wife, Charoline Christine Iverson, who had been in the employment of the family of William Morrison for about ten months. There were many trials during this period, but through patience and perseverance they were able to endure all things. On August 21, 1861, William married Anna Marie Hansen, this being the 4th and last wife. After that, the family moved into their new home known as "Bon Accord Cottage", Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete County (Utah). Here, on February 15, 1863, Margaret gave birth to another daughter, naming her Clementina Marion Morrison.
In the spring of 1865, William was called to lead a company of 30 families to make a new settlement in Sevier County (Utah), which became known as Richfield. He was the first Probate Judge of Sevier County and held that office for five years, as well as postmaster until the government officials deemed it improper for a man, being a polygamist, to hold public office any longer. Margaret remained in Mt. Pleasant when William moved to Richfield with the rest of his family. Because of an Indian uprising in Richfield in 1867, Richfield was abandoned and the family returned to Mt. Pleasant for the next 4 years.
After Richfield was re-established, Caroline and Anna Marie each had their own houses. William became the first postmaster and Christine's home became a civic center and was known as the "office".
William held many civic and church positions and was dedicated in all that he did. He was a surveyor, a school teacher, a postmaster, a telegraph operator, a stake clerk, a President of the High Priests, a Patriarch, a representative for two terms in the Utah Legislature in a manner which commanded the confidence and blessing of his brethren and fellow citizens. He performed ordinance work in the St. George and Manti Temples.
In order to evade the U.S. officials harassing the families who were practicing plural marriage, William purchased a ranch in Clear Creek Canyon in Sevier County in 1883. His son Arthur William was two years old when William and Anna Marie moved to the ranch. He recalls having a lonely childhood and youth as they lived out on the ranch. He said that both of his parents had excellent minds and were good people. Their first concern was to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ in its fullness and purity and to teach their children to do likewise and that to achieve true and lasting happiness there was no other way.
Early memories of things he learned from his father, William, was how to handle horses both in teams and on horseback. He was about three years old when his father needed help hauling wood to his family in Richfield. Finding no other help, he put Arthur on the load of wood and gave him the reins of the team of horses. William rode in a buggy ahead of him with another team.
William taught him to rise early by getting him up occasionally at 4 a.m. Then, after a little breakfast and to assure him he was up early and not to forget it, he would let him go back to bed and rest. That was an impressive lesson for him. Another important lesson he learned was when his father would take him to gather wood on fast day (which was the first Thursday of the month), they would fast until noon and eat their lunch while the horses at their noon feed. This helped Arthur learn how to live the gospel in daily life.
William was a financier and rancher until his death at the ranch on August 26, 1889. His wife, Anna Marie and their children George, Henrietta, Arthur and Isabella were there at that time.
Even though he suffered with a chronic stomach ailment in his later years, he had a clear mind, a strong testimony, and a great appreciation for life up to the day of his death. At his funeral, all spoke of his many virtues and of his unfeigned fidelity to the cause of truth and of his giving up everything for the gospel's sake. He was honored and respected by all who knew him.
He had twenty seven children
William and Margaret had eight children: Anthony Bruce (31 Oct 1844-31 Oct 1848), Andrew Cruickshank (25 Sep 1848-24 Aug 1850), Sarah Allen (16 Sep 1850-28 Jul 1854), Mary Isabella (16 Jan 1853-23 Jul 1854), Mary Margaret (3 Jan 1855-8 Nov 1855), William George (9 Dec 1856-31 Dec 1945), Williamina H. (13 Mar 1859-3 Mar 1935), Clementina M. (15 Feb 1863-6 May 1892).
William and Caroline had nine children: James Bruce (1860-1941), Amanda Puella (1864-1889), Alexander (1866-1936), Annie Christina (1869-1903), George Charles (1871-1939), Walter William (1874-), William (1876-1878), Lafayette (1880-1952), Lula (1883-1960).
William and Anna Marie had ten children: Martha Maria (1863-1944), Hannah Elizabeth (1864-1865), Charles Henry (1866-1949), Robert Bruce (1868-1954), Mary Ann (1871-1959), Mary Margaret (1874-1877), Henrietta Angelina (1876-1949), Cornelia Gemina (1878-1879), Arthur William (1881-1938), Isabella (1883-1943).
Researched and compiled by Anne Morrison Kropf, Great-great granddaughter of William Morrison
Sources:
Pioneer of the Month - Mt. Pleasant, Utah - Morrison, William and Mary Margaret Cruickshank
William Morrison Family Legacy written by Lula Morrison Barr
Caroline Christine Iverson Morrison written by her son Walter William Morrison
Arthur William Morrison - My Philosophy of Life - January 3, 1937, Nephi, Utah
July 29, 2016
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